It’s worse for those who have Covid-19 or are being tested for Covid-19. These patients are still prohibited from receiving visitors unless they are at the end of their lives. And even then, we have to negotiate to get more than two people into the room at the same time. “Who am I to decide … Read more
But even as Bull was helping send patients to Moberly Regional, the hospital was in the process of suing her and at least one other former employee at the nursing home. They were two of more than 600 former patients that the hospital has sued over medical bills during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a … Read more
The Apple Watch on your wrist can, in the right circumstances, serve as an important medical monitoring tool. According to MyHealthyApple and MacRumors, Apple-funded Stanford researchers found that the Apple Watch can accurately measure the frailty (or rather the distance covered in a six-minute walk) of patients with cardiovascular disease at home. According to Stanford’s … Read more
A hospital system manages the distribution of patients in its hospitals in an arrangement that arose out of an insane struggle to move patients when COVID-19 struck. (March 11)