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Medicare covers at-home nursing care for dementia patients for the first time this year

After an initial pilot program, Medicare has introduced a new model for treating patients with dementia this year. The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience Model, called GUIDE, is a voluntary ...
Health eCareers on MSN

What patients never see: How therapy professionals and diagnostic teams keep care moving

When we think of healthcare, certain images come to mind: nurses at the bedside, doctors making diagnoses, or a surgeon in ...
Community Impact

Redefining primary care through empathy: Meet Dr. Rodgers, The Colony and Frisco-area physician putting patients first

Meet Dr. Lorinda Torres Rodgers, an MDVIP-affiliated physician in The Colony who delivers personalized, compassionate primary care built on time, trust and empathy.
STAT

Gene-edited pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead patient for first time

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Converted a Kidney’s Blood Type, Then Implanted It Into a Brain-Dead Patient for the First Time

More than 92,000 patients in the United States are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, and according to the Health Resources & Services Administration, 13 people die each day while waiting ...
The Courier-Journal

Norton West Louisville Hospital will 'change lives,' sees nearly 60K patients in first year

Nearly 59,000 people have received care at the $90 million Norton West Louisville Hospital since it opened one year ago. When the hospital officially opened Nov. 11, 2024, it marked the first hospital ...