Centene and the National Minority Quality Forum are joining forces to study how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting communities of color.
The Minority and Rural Health Coronavirus Study will offer free diagnostic and antibody testing in...Arizona News
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recommends re-opening facilities to provide non-emergent, non-COVID-19 healthcare.
The Trump administration said Monday that healthcare facilities in states that have seen enough of a decline in COVID-19 cases to reach the Phase II criteria for reopening their economies should begin...Arizona News
Arizona’s state health officials urge hospitals to fully activate emergency plans to cope with a surge of COVID-19 patients.
Hospitals in Arizona are seeing a sharp increase in patients and emergency-room visits. Last week marked the largest week-to-week increase of coronavirus cases in both Arizona and Pima County since the...Arizona News
Arizona hospitalizations of patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 have hit a new record and the state's largest health system has reached capacity for patients needing external lung machines.
As of Friday statewide hospitalizations jumped to 1,278 inpatients in Arizona with suspected and confirmed COVID-19, which was a...Arizona News
Mahoney will guide the organization’s financial strategies and stewardship as well as lead all aspects of the hospitals’ financial service operations.
Mahoney comes to Mountain Vista, part of Steward Health Care, after serving as the assistant vice president, corporate operations controller for Steward Health Care in...Arizona News
As of June 1st, Arizona has identified 20,123 cases of COVID-19 and 917 deaths. On Tuesday, June 2, the state reported 1,127 new infections of the novel virus, the highest number reported in a single day since the outbreak began.
The state's total number of reported positive COVID-19 cases jumped 4.2% on Saturday, signaling the...
The average amount of revenue physicians generate for hospitals has jumped significantly in recent years, and a decline in patient volumes and elective procedures due to the COVID-19 pandemic is putting hospitals and physicians in a fragile financial position.
Hospitals are losing more than $50 billion per month, and according to a...
States are beginning to receive cases of an experimental COVID-19 drug that the Food and Drug Administration authorized for emergency use on May 1, although the distribution process has confused some hospitals and states about why they've been left empty-handed.
Anthony Fauci M.D., director of the U.S. National Institute of...
Up to 80% of Arizona’s children are not seeing a pediatrician right now, a dangerous trend that creates health risks for families and communities.
According to findings released last week by the Arizona chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Covid-19 pandemic has derailed immunization schedules and denied children...
To help small entrepreneurs economically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) announced it will donate $5 million to Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) to provide loans through its loan division, Loans CDFI.
The $5 million allows CPLC Loans, a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI), to...Arizona News
The addition of Magellan Complete Care will grow Molina's membership in government-sponsored health plans to more than 3.6 million across 18 states.
Health insurance giant Molina Healthcare Inc. has agreed to buy the Magellan Complete Care managed health care unit from Phoenix-based Magellan Health Inc. for $820 million in cash....National News
Trusted advisors share their perspective on what will never be the same again, predicting what healthcare will look like after the pandemic.
The responses were diverse, but rapid adoption of successful innovations are key because the crisis is altering, maybe even permanently, how and where providers interact with their patients...Arizona News
Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) purchased Mountain Heart in January upon the retirement of owner and cardiologist Dr. Kent Winkler. The clinic will become part of a larger plan to integrate cardiology care across northern Arizona and will continue to operate at 2000 S. Thompson St. in Flagstaff.
Mountain Heart cardiology...Arizona News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ordered state regulators and organizations to immediately inspect thousands of Medicare-participating healthcare facilities to focus on infection control for COVID-19. The Arizona Department of Health Services reported on Wednesday, March 11 that 100 people in Arizona have been tested for...
