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Two Geisinger hospitals earn highest score for quality
May 10, 2021 GMT
DANVILLE, Pa., May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Geisinger Lewistown and Geisinger Wyoming Valley hospitals earned the highest score for quality from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), joining an elite group of hospitals across the country with 5-Star ratings for 2021.
CMS rated more than 4,500 hospitals from 1 to 5 stars as part of its annual overall quality scores, with fewer than 14% of all hospitals, and only 22 facilities in Pennsylvania, receiving 5 stars. This rating puts both hospitals among the top 25% in Geisinger’s 44-county service area.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Innovaccer Inc., a leading healthcare technology company, announced that Kevin F. Brennan, Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company, is joining its Strategic Advisory Board. He brings financial expertise and experience in the business of healthcare to guide Innovaccer s growth and help the company build the future of healthcare in partnership with its customers.
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Before joining Innovaccer, Brennan spent 23 years as the Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Geisinger Health System. Prior to Geisinger, he served as a Chief Financial Officer with other large health systems and tertiary care hospitals.
Penn Highlands Micro Hospital 7:37 pm
Penn Highlands Healthcare purchased this land near the intersection of Colonnade Boulevard and Waddle Road in Patton Township in 2019.
Now, plans to build a micro-hospital and a neighboring office building here have been approved by Patton Township supervisors.
With Mount Nittany Medical Center and its sister facilities, as well as Geisinger Health System having a number of medical care options in Centre County, Penn Highlands enters
the mix with stiff competition.
Centre County commissioner Michael Pipe says that gives those seeking options to receive care more control over how they get it.
“You know, the consumer at the end of the day will make the decision about where they see healthcare provided, so we’ll see what that looks like. But again, they’re not going to open for another two years, so we’ll see how other healthcare entities respond to this and react to it and if they make any changes,
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The FINANCIAL Increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables could help young adults sleep better, especially young women, a new University of Michigan study shows, University of Michigan notes.
Young adults who reported consuming less than five servings of fruits and vegetables per day reported a high prevalence of chronic insomnia symptoms, with over one-third reporting difficulties with falling asleep or maintaining sleep at least three times per week for three months or longer.
Women who were able to increase their fruit and vegetable intake by three or more servings over a three-month period were more than twice as likely to experience an improvement in these insomnia symptoms, according to the study published in the Sleep Health Journal.
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DANVILLE, Pa., April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a 5-year, $3.6 million contract to Geisinger to study the role of genetic variation in cancer.
Researchers from Geisinger and the NCI s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) will analyze genetic data from Geisinger s MyCode Community Health Initiative, a precision medicine project with more than 276,000 consented participants. The work will be led by David J. Carey, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Functional Genomics at Geisinger and a MyCode principal investigator, and Douglas Stewart, M.D., a senior investigator at DCEG.