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Ridgewood NJ, the Valley Hospital has changed the medication delivered to ischemic stroke patients in an emergency situation to one that can be delivered faster.
Continue reading Valley Stroke Center Switches Medication to Expedite Treatment
No contact from VC until 5:00 yesterday. Horrible communication. The schools found out about it Wed night. I learned about it from Channel 2 news. It was newsworthy enough for network news but not important enough for the VC to contact residents. They only find you when they need you to do something for them like move your garbage cans or leaves.
The Village could make a ton of money selling the details of their communications plan to Harvard’s Business School as a textbook example of what NOT to do when confronted with a situation like this. A classic screw up of municipal government.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s top health insurance regulator says the state’s individual market is in “an emergency situation” amid big rate increases for next year.
Department of Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman said Friday that the five companies offering plans through the state’s exchange or directly to consumers were prepared to leave the market for 2017. He said big rate increases were the tradeoff to convince all but one company to remain for now.
Rate increases finalized this week range from a 50 percent average hike for HealthPartners plans to a 67 percent jump on average on UCare.
https://www.fox9.com/health/208893336-story