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Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

Modern Healthcare honors physicians and clinicians in executive roles for their exceptional achievements in driving innovation, improving outcomes, serving their communities, and demonstrating exemplary leadership both within and beyond their organizations. A digital subscription is required to view the online profiles.

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Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Permanente Medicine

TPMG teams are sharing programs for diabetes management to support patients in NWP. Since 2009, TPMG has been affiliated with Maryland-based MAPMG, which comprises nearly 1,800 physicians in 60 specialties, providing care for 768,000+ Kaiser Permanente members in the region. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Trump Administration May Cut Funds to Hospitals Offering Gender Care to Kids

Physician's Weekly

The federal government has already cut off hundreds of millions of dollars from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department would investigate doctors and hospitals that perform gender-related surgeries or mislead families about treatment. The hospital said more than 65% of its funding comes from federal sources.

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Reproductive Health Coalition Statement on Impact of Medicaid Cuts

Doctors for America

In the wake of ever rising healthcare costs, Medicaid provides a major lifeline for many Americans at all stages of life, from cradle to grave. The withdrawal of Medicaid threatens to endanger access to healthcare for all of these populations, with myriad immediate and long-lasting harms.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Jace 30:17 Absolutely.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. She entertained her family. He was a terrible diabetic. But she didn’t die.

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2024 Summer Pinecones E-Newsletter -- ADVOCACY News

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Progress was made on reducing the burden of prior authorizations by the passage of LD 796.