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West Burlington, IA- Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center's Hospitalist Program has expanded services to its Fort Madison campus. According to a news release, The care of most adult patients who are admitted to the hospital will be overseen by hospitalists, physicians who specialize in providing inpatient care. Hospitalists communicate with patients' primary care providers throughout their stays. When patients are discharged from the hospital, their care returns to the primary care providers. By practicing only inpatient medicine, hospitalists excel at managing acute diseases. Beca...

Ferring Pharmaceuticals: Ferring and Rebiotix to Present Landmark Data for Investigational Microbiota-based Live Biotherapeutic RBX2660 at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2021 Clostridioides difficile Infection With and Without Sepsis Presenting Author: Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, Thomas Mary Cesario Chairman, Department of Medicine, Executive Director, Hospitalist Program, University of California Irvine EMBARGOED UNTIL PRESENTATION TIME: FRIDAY, MAY 21 AT 12:15 PM ET DDW has made abstracts available on their website. About RBX2660 RBX2660 is a potential first-in-class microbiota-based live biothera...

Jan 11, 2021 Ashton Bird BSN, From left, Courtney Darr and Ashley Megat assemble gift boxes from Joey’s Journey Fund for the use by UPMC Chautauqua Maternity Department for special families they serve. Senior professional staff nurses, from left, Ashton Bird BSN and Courtney Darr join Ashley Megat and her mother, Diane Franklin, display items in the newly created Memory Boxes created through Joey’s Journey Fund at WCA Foundation. The Megat and Franklin families have created the fund to comfort parents of deceased infant patients at UPMC Chautauqua. Community support for the fund w...

FirstHealth of the Carolinas has named three executives to its top ranks including an incoming chief operating officer and two longtime employees who have been promoted from interim roles. Jonathan Davis, MPH, FACHE will be the new chief operating officer (COO) for the FirstHealth system. He is joined by Jeff Casey and Jenifir Bruno, M.D., as chief financial officer (CFO) and chief medical officer (CMO), respectively. Both have served in these positions on an interim basis since the summer. “We are excited to welcome Jonathan to the FirstHealth family,” said CEO Mickey W. Foster. â...

How you can help healthcare workers: Hospitals and staff are feeling the pressures By Gary Huffenberger - ghuffenberger@wnewsj.com At Continental Manor in Blanchester, the first resident to receive the vaccine is Haney Burris. Burris told the person injecting the vaccine that she was one of the first people to receive the polio vaccine when it came out, and now is happy to be one of the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Submitted photo Submitted photo WILMINGTON — In a virtual town hall Friday concerning COVID-19, senior leadership staff with Clinton Memorial Hospital told what they...