Healthcare providers enter Philadelphia s legal fight to enact gun laws
Healthcare providers enter Philadelphia s legal fight to enact gun laws
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New filings in an ongoing lawsuit by Philadelphia city officials against the state over the right to enact municipal gun control regulation sheds light on how healthcare stakeholders may tackle gun violence.
An amicus brief filed Monday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania by gun control advocates that included the city of Philadelphia and the organization CeaseFire Pennsylvania included statements from nine area physicians.
The brief included observations by Dr. Elizabeth Datner, chair of the department of emergency medicine at Philadelphia-based, Einstein Healthcare Network, which treated six of eight people who were victims of a mass shooting that took place Feb. 17.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Deal activity in the trillion-dollar U.S. patient-care industry has been hardy, despite projections that the pandemic might have slowed things down. That means the federal government is also busy scrutinizing hospital M&A. The Department of Justice dropped its challenge of a Pennsylvania hospital system deal this month when the buyer agreed to cap its ownership of the seller. Also this month, two Georgia healthcare systems gave up their planned merger in the face of a Federal Trade Commission challenge, while the Commission gave the green light to another deal in Pennsylvania.
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