Newark, NJ

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Morristown Minute

MORRIS COUNTY, NJ - Nine individuals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a drug trafficking organization operating in Newark, distributing fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.

16 Arrested in Major Drug Bust: Meth, Cocaine, Fentanyl & Heroin

Illinois State

Oak Park, IL

An Illinois physician was sentenced to eight years in prison for a more than $1.2 million Medicaid fraud scheme. William McMiller, MD, 69, owned Dr. Bill’s Learning Center, which has two locations, one in Chicago and one in Oak Park, according to a June 13 news release from the Illinois attorney general's office. The centers offered tutoring services to children in addition to clinical therapy and psychiatric services.

Illinois physician sentenced to 8 years in prison for Medicaid fraud scheme

Chicago, IL

Chicago-based Community First Medical Center has placed its emergency department on bypass due to high temperatures in the hospital, CBS reported June 13. The hospital is not accepting any new patients, including those coming by ambulance. Earlier this month, hospital staff told the news outlet they were working in 80- and 90-degree temperatures.

Chicago hospital stops accepting patients due to A/C woes

Nashville, TN

Murray, KY

The Murray Sentinel

MURRAY – A Murray couple was arrested last week after two juveniles in their care were admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, for severe weight loss with supporting evidence of malnutrition and physical abuse.

Foster parents arrested after children found to be extremely malnourished

Gillian May

Most of us who engage in heavy alcohol use do so to self-medicate. And we self-medicate because we don’t know how to feel, process, and sit with our uncomfortable emotions. There are many ways to avoid uncomfortable feelings; heavy alcohol use is just one way (among many) to numb out, avoid, or escape. A lot of us who have abused alcohol, myself included, do so to regulate our emotions, or we think we are regulating our emotions through self-medication.

Opinion: Heavy Alcohol Use Increases Emotional Dysregulation

Iowa State

Kentucky State

Kentucky has the highest cancer incidence rate, while Nevada has the lowest, a USAFacts report found. The report, published April 22, used the CDC's U.S. cancer statistics data visualizations page, which collects data from the Health Department and the National Cancer Institute. USAFacts used state cancer rates from 2019. The...

States with the highest, lowest incidence rates of cancer

Ali Carney, 46, of Newark, received a 65-month prison sentence for conspiring to distribute narcotics, including fentanyl and heroin, and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, according to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

Gang Member Sentenced to 65 Months for Drug Trafficking

Utica, NY

With the exception of open heart surgery, Utica, N.Y.-based Wynn Hospital will resume all cardiac procedures June 20. Structural heart procedures will resume June 20, provided a cardiac surgeon is present in the operating room, Mohawk Valley Health System, which owns Wynn Hospital, said in a June 13 update on the status of its cardiac services. Last month, the hospital received an immediate jeopardy citation regarding its open-heart surgery program. Those surgeries remain on pause, while an external agency conducts a review of the service.

New York hospital resumes most heart surgeries

M Henderson

Spaghetti topped with meat sauce checks off important boxes for a satisfying meal in many situations. Number one, kids like it, and it's one of the first foods they can eat all by themselves. A cherub face shoveling handsful of spaghetti into its sauce-coated mouth is one of life's cutest visions.

Delicious Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
Anyone Can Make

Teleflex and its subsidiary Arrow International have received 322 complaints and reports of 31 injuries and three deaths related to nearly 17,000 intra-aortic balloon pumps, the FDA said June 13. The Arrow FiberOptix Intra-Aortic Balloon Catheter Kit and Arrow UltraFlex Intra-Aortic Balloon Catheter Kit are used with patients undergoing surgery...

31 injuries, 3 deaths reportedly tied to heart devices

Mississippi State

Nevada State

Nevada has the highest hourly mean wage for physician assistants, even after adjusted for cost of living, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Below are the mean hourly wages for nurses in 49 states and Washington, D.C., adjusted for cost of living. Salary data for PAs in Mississippi was not available. Becker's calculated these figures using May 2023 salary data from BLS and 2024 cost of living index data from the World Population Review.

PA pay by state, adjusted by cost of living

Lexington, KY

The Lexington Times

Federal authorities recently employed an unconventional yet effective method to link an alleged Lexington drug trafficker to a fentanyl stash house. A plea agreement, filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, details the elaborate investigation that culminated in the arrest and subsequent guilty plea of a key individual. A key piece of evidence in the case? The defendant's DoorDash order history.

Plea agreement: Feds used DoorDash app to link Lexington drug trafficker to stash house

Wooster, OH

Wooster (Ohio) Community Hospital, a 173-bed facility, has appointed Jason Rohr CFO, effective June 20. Mr. Rohr previously served in financial leadership roles at Pomerene Hospital in Millersburg, Ogio, and Aultman Health Foundation in Canton, Ohio. At Wooster Community, he aims to expand access to care and strengthen operational efficiency...

Ohio hospital appoints CFO

Nonprofit hospital operating margins are up double-digits year over year, according to Kaufman Hall's "National Hospital Flash Report" released June 3. From January to April, operating margins were up 23% year over year while operating EBITDA margin jumped 14%. Across the U.S., operating margins were up everywhere but the Great Plains region.

52 statistics on hospital profitability

Pierce County, WA

Gig Harbor, WA

Timothy A Gruver

Pierce County nurse Peter Meric Atanasoff has been accused of failing to properly administer medications and practice good needle hygiene, the Washington State Department of Health reported on Thursday.

Nurse charged with medication mixup, poor hygiene

While telehealth usage has declined across the healthcare industry since its peak during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaiser Permanente's phone and video visit rates remain significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, Desiree Gandrup-Dupre, senior vice president of care delivery technology services, at the organization told Becker's. According to...

How Kaiser keeps telehealth alive despite industry decline

Rhode Island State

Providence, RI

Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings has come under fire for the alleged mismanagement of two of its safety-net hospitals in Providence, R.I. Prospect, a for-profit health system, owns and operates 278-bed Roger Williams Medical Center and 220-bed Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, which allegedly are dealing with several hazards and patient safety issues, according to court documents obtained by Becker's.

Judge slams California system as safety-net hospitals 'fall into disrepair'

Oregon State

Medford, OR

A former nurse at the center of a drug diversion case that allegedly harmed dozens of patients at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, Ore., was arrested June 13 and faces 44 counts of second-degree assault. The arrest comes after a seven-month investigation, Medford police said. A day before...

Nurse charged in Oregon hospital drug diversion case

San Francisco, CA

The Harvard Crimson 

By Cam N. Srivastava and Saketh Sundar, Crimson Staff Writers. Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as she delivered a keynote speech at the Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th anniversary event Monday evening.

Alums Disrupt Nancy Pelosi at Harvard Club of San Francisco Event in Pro-Palestine Protest

Washington State

The Washington State Health Care Authority reports it is launching a new state program, ScalaNW, to expand access to medications for opioid addiction. Starting on Monday, ScalaNW will offer every emergency room clinician with round the clock clinical consultation and educational materials to treat opioid addiction, according to the HCA.

ScalaNW: Expanding ER Access to Opioid Addiction Treatment

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Ozempic quells kidney disease risk, study finds

In a yearslong trial of more than 3,500 participants, Novo Nordisk's Ozempic and Wegovy slowed the growth of chronic kidney disease and slashed the risk of...

Ozempic quells kidney disease risk, study finds

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