At St. Mary Medical Center in Southern California’s Apple Valley, patients are triaged outside in tents, and the hospital put up temporary walls in its lobby to make more room to treat those with COVID-19. Patients are also being treated in the halls on gurneys or chairs, somet...
Acoalition of unionsrepresenting the workers says the planned three-day strike will impact hundreds of hospitals in several states, with picket lines in California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Demonstrations are ongoing at dozens of hospitals in Califor...
More than 3,600 confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units. All of Southern California and the 12-county San Joaquin Valley to the north have exhausted their regularintensive care unitcapacity, and some hospitals have begun using "surge" space. Overall, the state's ...
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Cedars Sinai in Southern California is also in the early days of experimenting with Alexa. "We are fascinated with it," said Darren Dworkin, the hospital's chief information officer. "We need a killer app before it gets mainstream, but I don't know what that will be yet." ...
1Citations 1Altmetric Abstract This chapter examines the continuing corporatization in the American healthcare system. First, the upsurge in consolidation is revealed through the merger and acquisition activity of each segment of the industry: pharmaceutical firms, insurers, hospitals and health systems,...