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December 2021

Health Center

United Memorial Medical Center loses Medicare contract over safety, health violations

United Memorial Medical Center, a hospital system with four locations in Houston, will lose its contracts with Medicare after several inspections found health and safety violations from failing to screen staff for COVID-19 to rusted equipment to cockroaches in the operating room, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…

Healthy Lifestyle

Holiday Habits Survey Reveals 64{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} of Americans Push Healthy “New Year, New Me” to After the Holidays

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — According to the fourth annual “Writing Off The Holidays” survey commissioned by Herbalife Nutrition, despite people’s desire to be healthy, two-thirds (64{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d}) of Americans plan to actively delay their attempts to be healthy until 2022, a 9{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} increase over 2020 and 23{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} over…

Healthy Kids

With Minnesota kids in crisis and fewer mental health professionals available, more are turning to ERs

Emergency department visits in the U.S. for suspected suicide attempts were 51{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} higher for adolescent girls and 4{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} higher for adolescent boys. MINNEAPOLIS — As one of the largest children’s mental health service and training providers in Minnesota, the Washburn Center for Children is a kind of first-line of defense…