Death panels, aging Boomers, assisted living. The past week reverberated with anxiety about health care for seniors, and for those about to be seniors. The latter group includes me. I’m a member of the Baby Boom generation, the large segment of the American population born in the late 1940s and the 1950s. I have several…
OSHA has proposed thousands of dollars in fines for safety violations at a Postal Service facility. Read the full article: Gwinnett Daily Post
The federal health agency lost or misplaced $8 million in property in 2007, an audit says. Read the full article: Augusta Chronicle
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to replace an overcrowded outpatient clinic. Read the full article: Gainesville Times
Marjean Birt regularly walks four blocks from her home to visit her husband of 54 years, Lucas, at Dogwood Forest assisted living facility in Alpharetta. “We appreciate it so much and think it’s a wonderful facility,’’ she says. On Wednesday, Birt took a much longer trip, traveling to downtown Atlanta to testify at a public…
A suburban building boom is extending Kaiser Permanente’s geographic spread across metro Atlanta. The California-based nonprofit health plan says it’s adding new medical offices early in 2011 in Conyers and Fayetteville. Those two centers, along with one in downtown Atlanta, would make 11 new Kaiser medical clinic openings in a little more than a year….
A Cobb County task force works to crack down on unethical pain clinics. Read the full article: ajc.com
A Georgia program helps seniors as Medicare open enrollment ends Friday. Read the full article: Carrollton Times-Georgian
Alabama was the big winner among 15 states for enrolling uninsured children for public health insurance. The federal performance bonus to Alabama for the kids’ insurance sign-up: $55 million. That was the biggest chunk of the more than $200 million in bonus payments awarded Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, more than…
A nurse anesthetist faces additional sex charges. Read the full article: Marietta Daily Journal