After a brief hiatus for mechanical repairs, the VNA "Health Care on Wheels" Mobile Unit will be back on the road beginning Monday with two new locations and a modified schedule.
Nearly the entire staff of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council has been let go due to a political disagreement between Gov. Ed Rendell (D) and state Senate Republicans over whether a bill to reauthorize the council should also include an extension of a malpractice insurance subsidy for physicians, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports (Goldstein, Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/2).
POINT PLEASANT - Matthew Keefer, director of Human Resources at Pleasant Valley Hospital, recently was named a Board Member at Large by the West Virginia Health Care Association (WVHCA).
"Health care will become one of the most onerous personal finance issues in coming years unless the system is changed to ensure universal access, cost control and long-term financing," Bloomberg columnist John Wasik writes in the Bloomberg/Boston Globe.
European Union residents would be able to receive most health care treatment anywhere in the 27-nation bloc without prior authorization under a proposal published on Wednesday.
