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[unable to retrieve full-text content] APMs Support Better Primary Care, But Value-Based Care Obstacles Remain    RevCycleIntelligence.com

While large pustules are characteristic of monkeypox, patients infected amid the current outbreak have presented with a broad range of symptoms, physicians told The New York Times in an Aug. 26 report.  Typically, monkeypox begins with flu-like symptoms, with a rash that develops a few days later. However, physicians have seen infected patients who don't ever develop a rash, as well as patients with pox or lesions as their only symptom. For some, lesions have looked like mosquito bites or ingrown hairs, rather than the large pustules characteristic of the infection. There have also been cases where patients experience confusion and seizures, severe eye infections and heart muscle inflammation.  "We really are seeing a very, very wide range of presentation," Boghuma Titanji, MD, PhD, infectious disease physician at a clinic in Atlanta, told the Times . Monkeypox is known to spread through sustained close contact, and emerging evidence has led research...

Patient-Focused Health Network, VIPcare, Opens New Primary Care Clinic to Provide Better Health to the Medicare Advantage Community TAMPA, Fla. , Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VIPcare, a patient-focused primary care network based in Florida , is excited to announce the opening of their new local clinic in Jacksonville . Dr. James Porcelli will be the primary care physician at VIPcare's newest location. He is board-certified in internal medicine and brings extensive clinical experience in providing care to the residents of Jacksonville.  VIPcare is excited to be partnering with Dr. Porcelli, and together they look forward to transforming primary care and offering quality healthcare to Medicare beneficiaries. This is VIPcare's first clinic in NE Florida . "We're excited to be bringing VIPcare into the Jacksonville area," VIPcare's Medical Director Dr. Sangeeta Hans said. "VIPcare is transforming healthcare to provide a better experience...

A Richmond-based health clinic started offering self-defense kits for people who are often targeted for their gender expression. The public safety initiative aims to provide more resources to transgender and nonbinary people. A study from the Williams Institute School of Law at UCLA found transgender people are more than four times as likely to experience physical attacks than cisgender people. For Leigh Guinty, moving through the world as a transgender person is dangerous. He says the feeling of being watched never goes away. "You literally walk around with a bull's-eye on your front and back every day, all day," Guinty said. Guinty is a transgender, nonbinary person of color with indigenous heritage. He said he's survived multiple acts of violence motivated by transphobia. In those moments, he said having something to defend himself with might have made a difference. "If I had something to protect myself, I probably would have used it,"...

A new virus that's been dubbed tomato flu, or tomato fever, is spreading in India and causing several symptoms that are similar to COVID-19, including fever, fatigue, and body aches. The virus got its name from one telltale symptom that isn't seen with COVID — painful bright red blisters that spread all over the body and can gradually grow to the size of a tomato. While the virus is rare, at least 100 cases have been reported in India since the first case was identified in the state of Kerala on May 6, according to a report in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine on August 17. So far there have been no fatalities attributed to tomato flu, according to the Lancet report. Scientists and public health officials are still investigating the recent spate of cases, including 82 cases reported in children under 5 years old in local hospitals in the state of Kerala, as well as an additional 26 cases in youth 1 to 9 years old in the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu. Scientists are still inve...

If they followed national recommendation guidelines for preventive care, chronic disease care and acute care, it would take a primary care physician 26.7 hours per day to see an average number of patients, a new study finds. "There is this sort of disconnect between the care we've been trained to give and the constraints of a clinic workday," said Justin Porter, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "We have an ever-increasing set of guidelines, but clinic slots have not increased proportionately." This study builds on others that have found a discrepancy between guidelines and a physician's time. And it has real consequences for the delivery of health care; the researchers said that time pressure helps explain why improvements in outcomes have not kept pace with advances made in the field. Time pressure plays a role in inequiti...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] New COVID vaccine coverage policy on the way    FierceHealthcare

A program to recognize the care and compassion of extraordinary nurses continues at UHS with  Joshua Barahona, LPN, UHS Primary Care Sidney,  being named the June winner of the DAISY Award! Josh was recognized and presented with the award for the achievement, and enjoyed cinnamon rolls, a symbolic treat in honor of Patrick Barnes, whose experience inspired the award. The UHS Primary Care nurse was nominated by a patient's mom. In her nomination letter, the mother spoke about her 18yr old son who was going through a very difficult time mentally and emotionally. Her son went to CPEP and had many follow up appointments. At one of his follow ups with Rohan Jayasena, MD, he met Josh, who is Dr. Jayasena's nurse. Josh showed great compassion and respect for her son and what he was experiencing. Josh even reached out and offered to take her son hiking to help him find something healthy to focus on. He inspired a love of hiking which has gre...

In this article SGFY ONEM AMZN In this photo illustration, the Amazon Basic Care logo is displayed on a smartphone with an Amazon logo in the background. Thiago Prudêncio | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Chalk up another failure in health care for Amazon, one of the ultimate market disruptors. First, its much-hyped effort with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway to reform health care, Haven, ended its short life. Now, Amazon Care, its effort to tackle telemedicine and primary care for the employer market on a national basis – which Amazon itself trumpeted as gaining more and more clients – is being shut down. Is that all the proof we needed of what many people have said over the years: health care is just harder to disrupt than most industries? Maybe not, though maybe it is a signal of a change in the approach to how Amazon will attempt to gobble up more health industry market share. The shutdown of Amazon Care may come back to a simple choice that companies, especially those wit...

As drug­mak­ers race to bring Omi­cron-spe­cif­ic vac­cines to mar­ket, the Bill & Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion is al­ready fo­cused on the next pan­dem­ic. And on Tues­day, the Mi­crosoft founder re­port­ed­ly agreed to dou­ble down on the foun­da­tion's part­ner­ship with South Ko­rea. The Bill & Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion and South Ko­rea have pledged to col­lab­o­rate on projects such as a glob­al health re­search fund, and work with oth­er health or­ga­ni­za­tions like CEPI to ad­dress dis­par­i­ties and ad­vance pro­grams in in­fec­tious dis­eases, Reuters and the As­so­ci­at­ed Press  re­port­ed. "I am con­fi­dent that with these steps we can con­tin­ue to rad­i­cal­ly im­prove glob­al health, to cut the num­ber of chil­dren dy­ing in half again, to erad­i­cate dis­eases like po­lio, measles and malar­ia, and im­prove the lives of all hu­mans," Gates said in a speech to South Ko­re­an law­mak­ers, per the AP. SK Group, South Ko­rea...

On August 18, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") issued guidance regarding the looming end of the COVID-19 public health emergency ("PHE") and the associated emergency authority waivers, regulations, enforcement discretion, and sub-regulatory guidance. These flexibilities were issued to ensure that people had access to necessary care, give health care providers the ability to respond to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, and keep patients safe. Although the PHE is currently set to expire on October 13, 2022, Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Secretary Xavier Becerra has committed to giving states and the health care community 60 days' notice before ending the PHE. As we are already less than 60 days from October 13, 2022, we can assume that the PHE will be extended. In conjunction with the end of the PHE, many of the aforementioned waivers and flexibilities will also end. Because of this, CMS has advi...

When you wake up with a sore throat, it can be challenging to figure out the cause. It could be strep throat, another infection, allergies, or even acid reflux. Strep throat is a bacterial infection that causes swelling in the tonsils and usually peaks around age 7 or 8. Symptoms include a painful sore throat, fever, swollen neck glands, and white patches on the tonsils.   A respiratory illness or environmental irritant could cause a sore throat. If your sore throat is due to strep throat you may require antibiotics to cure the infection and prevent complications.  This article provides an overview of the common causes of a sore throat and explains how to determine if you have strep throat.  VOISIN / Getty Images Possible Reasons for a Sore Throat There are several possible reasons for a sore throat. In infants, toddlers, and young children, a viral infection is the most common cause of sore throat. Both viral ...

Students in D.C. public and charter schools will have more time to comply with vaccination requirements this school year, the city's deputy mayor for education said Friday. The city's top education official notified school leaders Friday about the change, designed to reduce the number of children who could be barred from school, as well as align the District's charter systems and public school district under a single enforcement timeline. The change comes a few days before the start of school and amid some concern that the mandate could keep students out of class, particularly Black students who lag behind their white classmates in routine and coronavirus vaccination rates. Officials previously said schools should not allow students to come to class for more than 20 days without their routine vaccinations, against illnesses including measles and polio, or their coronavirus shots. But because schools across the district have different start dates — D.C. public schools reopen...

DANBURY — The Connecticut Institute for Communities has expanded its health center, with additional space for dentistry, pediatrics and other care. The new wing of the building at 120 Main St. is approximately 8,500 square feet and includes three new dental operatories, a new family medicine suite, eight additional pediatric and adult medicine exam rooms, and a primary care simulation laboratory for organization's Teaching Health Center program. The Connecticut Institute for Communities, abbreviated CIFC, unveiled during a ribbon cutting on Thursday a new name and logo for the building, which will now be called CIFC Health (pronounced civic health). CIFC Health is a federally-qualified community health center, with a stated mission of ensuring affordable, accessible, comprehensive, high quality health care to residents in the Danbury area. It does not turn people away and uses a sliding-fe...

The hottest ticket on P.E.I. these days isn't for a concert or a sports event, but rather to see a doctor at a walk-in clinic, especially for the increasing number of people without a family physician. Summerside resident Rose Gallant and her husband woke up at 4:30 a.m. to get to the Sherwood Family Medical Centre walk-in clinic in Charlottetown at 6:30 a.m. — that's 90 minutes before the clinic opened. The couple was the first in line. "You never know when the doctor's in Summerside, in the clinic. Whenever he feels like going. Then he takes his own patients over you, so we come here," she said. Rose Gallant and her husband are from Summerside but were the first ones to start the line at a Charlottetown walk-in clinic at 6:30 a.m. (Brian Higgins/CBC) At least three doctors in Charlottetown recently announced they would close their practices, leaving more than 5,000 patients on the Island without a family physician. This week, the province'...

PASADENA, Calif. —  Patients who participated in in-home cardiac rehabilitation had fewer hospitalizations over 12 months than patients who participated in center-based cardiac rehabilitation, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published August 25, 2022, in JAMA Network Open. "The remarkable thing we found in this study of more than 2,500 diverse patients was that health advantages of home-based cardiac rehabilitation applied to both patients with low and moderate risk, as well as those with higher risk due to poor health, age, or chronic health conditions," said lead author Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, a cardiologist at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center, a clinician investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation, and an assistant professor at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. Cardiac rehabilitation in a hospital-based setting is a well-studied, effective way ...

ABI Multifamily, the leading multifamily brokerage and advisory services firm in the Western US, announced the $22,000,000 / $239,130 Per Unit / $234.80 Per SF sale of Phoenician Pines Condominium Homes, a 92-unit portion of a 240 total unit condominium community located at 17211 North 35th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85053 . ABI Multifamily's Phoenix-based Institutional Apartment Group – Alon Shnitzer, Rue Bax, Eddie Chang, and Doug Lazovick represented the seller in this transaction. The buyer is based in Arizona and the seller is based in California. READ ALSO:  Here's a look at monthly average rent price trends Phoenician Pines Condominiums is a garden-style, bulk condominium offering consisting of 92 out of 240 total units, with HOA control, currently operating as multifamily rentals. The 92 units in this offering were built in 1982 and converted into condominiums in 2006. All units feature air conditioning / heating, large walk-in closets, patio / balc...

A new, highly contagious viral infection that has been dubbed "tomato flu" is spreading among children in India, the country's Health Ministry said this week. At least 82 children younger than 5 had been infected by late July in the southern state of Kerala, after the first patient was identified there in May. Infections have now been recorded in three other states — including 26 children between the ages of 1 and 9 in Odisha — the Times of India reported Thursday. The infection gets its name from the "eruption of red and painful blisters throughout the body that gradually enlarge to the size of a tomato," according to an article published last week in the British medical journal Lancet. The blisters resemble those seen on young monkeypox patients. The disease — which appears to spread through close contact and is not considered life-threatening — could be an aftereffect of chikungunya or dengue rather than a viral infection, according to the article. Tomato flu...