People who die in the hospital undergo more intense tests and procedures than those who die anywhere else.
An analysis by
Arcadia Healthcare Solutions also shows that spending on people who die in a hospital is about seven times that on people who die at home.
WIM
According to the article:
The work confirms with hard data what most doctors and policymakers already know: Hospital deaths are more expensive and intrusive than deaths at home, in hospice care, or even in nursing homes.
"This intensity of services in the hospital shows a lot of suffering that is not probably in the end going to offer people more quality of life and may not offer them more quantity of life either," says
Dr. Richard Parker, Chief Medical Officer at Arcadia.
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Advocate, NorthShore can merge, judge says
WH
In a
June 14post by
Kristen Schorsch in
Crain's Chicago Business:
A federal judge has paved the way for
Advocate Health Care and
NorthShore University HealthSystem to merge and create the dominant hospital network in Illinois, a huge blow to federal antitrust regulators.
In a court filing today, U.S. Northern District Judge
Jorge Alonso denied the
Federal Trade Commission's motion for a preliminary injunction to block the merger between Downers Grove-based Advocate, already the largest hospital network in the state with 12 facilities, and Evanston-based NorthShore, a four-hospital network.
WIM:
The author goes on to report
The proposed merger is one of the largest healthcare deals to be challenged by the FTC in years. And Alonso's decision is the second loss in a row for the federal agency, after years of scoring victories in such cases.
FDA Approves Weight Loss Stomach Pump AspireAssist to Combat Obesity
The
Food and Drug Administration approved a new and unusual weight loss device Tuesday: an external pump that dumps part of the stomach contents into the toilet...
King of Prussia, PA based Aspire Bariatrics makes the device.
The device is considered minimally invasive and includes a tube that goes from the inside of the stomach to a port on the outside of the abdomen. The pump can be attached to the outside port as needed to remove about a third of the stomach's contents at a time.
WIM
According to the author:
The device joins a growing list of new ways to help Americans lose weight, from carefully controlled diets to surgery and a batch of devices that make the stomach smaller in effect.
Diet drugs don't work terribly well and doctors are reluctant to prescribe them. This new device is the first to remove food that people have already eaten before it can be digested.
The need is growing. The latest data from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that 38 percent of U.S. adults are obese, while 17 percent of teenagers fall under that category.
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