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Tennessee Moves Up in Health Rankings
State Climbs Three Notches from 2010
After years spent in the bottom 10 when it comes to health rankings in the United States, Tennessee pulled up to number 39 in the nation. True, the state is still in the bottom third ... Read More
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Tennessee Moves Up in Health Rankings
State Climbs Three Notches from 2010
After years spent in the bottom 10 when it comes to health rankings in the United States, Tennessee pulled up to number 39 in the nation. True, the state is still in the bottom third of the country when it comes to health status,...
CINDY SANDERS |
Capella, Saint Thomas Health Enter Equity Partnership
Last month, Capella Healthcare and Saint Thomas Health (STHe) announced the two entities had signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to form a joint venture for the delivery of healthcare in a 60-county area of Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky...
CINDY SANDERS |
Cause for Optimism
New Nursing Study Improves Workforce Outlook
A perfect storm of increased patient need and decreased supply in the nursing workforce has loomed over the healthcare delivery system like a dark, ominous cloud...
CINDY SANDERS |
Food Fight
Addressing Addiction in the Obesity Battle
For those with a significant amount of weight to lose, surgical options are a viable … and effective … weapon in the battle against obesity. Clinicians, however, are quick to add that it is simply one part of the armamentarium required to win the war...
CINDY SANDERS |
Experience and Expertise
When Pam Davis, RN, CBN walks into a room of bariatric surgery candidates, she not only shares her expertise as a certified bariatric nurse and the program director for the Centennial Center for the Treatment of Obesity, but she also shares...
CINDY SANDERS |
Saint Thomas Heart Announces New Season of Healthy Cooking Classes
What is good for the heart is also good for the stomach … and thighs … and that annoying back fat.
Recently, Saint Thomas Heart, the cardiac division of Saint Thomas Health, announced the 2012 Winter/Spring schedule for its wildly popular Heart Healthy Cooking School,...
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Ditching the “D” Word
Nutritionists stress healthy eating for weight loss rather than dieting
It fits all the criteria for a “four-letter” word. The very name conjures up unpleasant feelings, and it’s not something you typically talk about in polite society...
CINDY SANDERS |
Politics and Reimbursement
Providers’ Frustration Builds as Politics Impede Progress
Barry Jarnagin, MD, is frustrated — just like most of his physician colleagues and … it’s probably safe to say … like most Americans.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
CMS Releases ACO Final Rules, Deadlines Loom
Two tracks for Shared Savings Accountable Care Organizations
The final regulations governing Medicare accountable care organizations were released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in October, and they represent a sea change in healthcare’s future...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Bad Debt is a Moving Target in Today’s Challenging Economy
As healthcare providers face declining reimbursements and a deteriorating payer mix, debt collection is critical to the bottom line for hospitals and physician groups. Yet, with many of their patients facing economic woes of their own in this dreary economy,...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Physician Network to Tackle Surgical Costs, Quality
Health Innovation Specialists Will Do Measurements on Its Own
As the phrase “cost and quality” becomes synonymous with healthcare reform, and physicians find themselves talking about benchmarks and metrics, a collection of eight Nashville-area medical practices are working to...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Russell L. Rothman, MD, MPP
Deciphering Food Labels for Better Diabetes Control
One in every three babies born today will be obese at some point in its life.
For Latinos, the number is one in two.
Clearly the obesity tsunami is cresting, and there is an urgent need to teach people the best choices for healthful eating...
KELLY PRICE |
HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE: Dayani Center Offers Community Medically-based Fitness Option
For the countless Middle Tennesseans vowing to get healthy or lose weight in 2012, Vanderbilt Dayani Center for Health and Wellness might just be the answer. The medically-based fitness facility promotes healthy living under the guidance of exercise physiologists, physical therapists, dietitians and health specialists. Now in its 23rd year,...
MELANIE KILGORE-HILL |
Grand Rounds January
Taylor Appointed Dean of Belmont's College of Health Sciences & Nursing
Cathy Taylor, DrPH, MSN, RN, has been named as the new dean of the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing at Belmont University. She begins her new position at Belmont on Feb. 1, 2012.
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Too Few American Adults Getting Needed Vaccinations: CDC
Title: Too Few American Adults Getting Needed Vaccinations: CDC
Category: Health News
Created: 2/2/2012 4:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/3/2012 Posted Friday, February 3, 2012 1:00 am CST
| | Mouse Study Suggests Alzheimer's Spreads Through Brain Like an Infection
Title: Mouse Study Suggests Alzheimer's Spreads Through Brain Like an Infection
Category: Health News
Created: 2/2/2012 4:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/3/2012 Posted Friday, February 3, 2012 1:00 am CST
| | Could a Blood Test Help Spot Depression?
Title: Could a Blood Test Help Spot Depression?
Category: Health News
Created: 2/3/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/3/2012 Posted Friday, February 3, 2012 1:00 am CST
| | Sex and the Elderly: STD Risk Often Ignored
Title: Sex and the Elderly: STD Risk Often Ignored
Category: Health News
Created: 2/3/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/3/2012 Posted Friday, February 3, 2012 1:00 am CST
| | New Heart Failure Risks: Fractures and Memory Problems
Title: New Heart Failure Risks: Fractures and Memory Problems
Category: Health News
Created: 2/3/2012 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/3/2012 Posted Friday, February 3, 2012 1:00 am CST
| | 1 in 2 Stroke Survivors Has High Blood Pressure
Title: 1 in 2 Stroke Survivors Has High Blood Pressure
Category: Health News
Created: 2/3/2012 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/3/2012 Posted Friday, February 3, 2012 1:00 am CST
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Herb Fritch takes aim at medical inflation - The Deal Pipeline
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Herb Fritch takes aim at medical inflationThe Deal Pipelinebased health insurer Cigna Corp. announced that it would pay $3.8 billion to acquire HealthSpring Inc., a Nashville, Tenn.-based publicly traded health plan focusing exclusively on Medicare recipients. The deal, which closed Jan. |
Posted Friday, February 3, 2012 12:01 pm CST
| | MissionPoint Health Partners Starts with More Than 1000 Nashville Area Physicians - MarketWatch (press release)
Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:05 pm CST
| | Penguins Notebook: Vitale's two-year extension reward for tenacity, hustle - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012 12:16 am CST
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