Docs cut work hours as primary care shortage looms

2010-02-25T05:00:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Study finds doctors reducing work hours, potentially worsening shortage of primary care docs</div><div><p>Doctors have steadily cut their work hours over the past decade, a new study finds, something that experts say may only worsen the health care situation.</p><p>It's not that doctors are terrible slackers. Average hours dropped from about 55 to 51 hours per week from 1996 to 2008, according to the analysis, appearing in Wednesday's

Community Health Center Gives Newborn Care Class For Low-Income Parents

2010-02-23T12:33:47Z

AURORA, CO - FEBRUARY 23: Janeth Fernandez kisses her daughter Sarah during a newborn check-up at a community health center on February 23, 2010 in Aurora, Colorado. The Metro Community Provider Network (MCPN), which treats low-income patients, has seen more than a doubling of patients during the last year of recession, as more people have lost their jobs and traditi...

Community health centers can fill care gaps

2010-02-22T12:41:09Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Community health centers can help fill gaps in the U.S. healthcare system for relatively little money, researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>Their report, published in the journal Health Affairs, was released just as President Barack Obama<...

New Calif. rule reduces wait time to see doctors

2010-02-22T17:14:54Z

<div id="subtitle">California regulators announce new rule to reduce wait time for doctor visits</div><div><p>Brian Benz hobbled around for a week after a basketball game left him with a sprained ankle when he lived in Wisconsin.</p><p>Though the athletic 34-year-old called his doctor's office repeatedly, he couldn't get an appointment. So he did what many desperate patients do: He went to the hospital for a non-...

president obama memo signing 2

2009-12-10T18:47:38Z

President Obama made a recovery act announcement on community health centers south court auditorium of the White House Washington DC, USA - 09.12.09

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Obama directs $600M to health centers, med records

2010-02-23T18:36:28Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama directs $600M toward community health centers, improving electronic medical records</div><div><p>President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday the government is spending almost $600 million for community health centers and for a push to transfer medical records to electronic formats.</p><p>President Barack Obama is spending almost $600 million to build community health centers and to make medical records easier to find.</p><p>The White House on Wednesday painted ...

Non-Profit Health Clinics Care For Uninsured

2009-12-02T15:19:29Z

AURORA, CO - DECEMBER 01: Dental hygienist Denise Lopez cleans the teeth of Ashleigh Britt at a community health center for low-income patients on December 1, 2009 in Aurora, Colorado. The Metro Community Provider Network (MCPN), which has 11 health centers in the Denver a...

Small size, national plans help Europe's H1N1 fight

2010-02-24T08:54:51Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Compared to the problems dogging health departments in the United States, Europe's battle to vaccinate the vulnerable against pandemic H1N1 swine flu appears to be going relatively smoothly -- so far.</p><p>H1N1 vaccination programs in Washington, Dr. Don Klitgaard and his colleagues are carrying out their own reform in a small Iowa community.</p><p>They've reorganized their clinic so nurses bird-dog patients whose health problems, if ignored, could send them ...

Swine Flu Vaccine

2009-10-09T19:16:54Z

Asia Johnson, 6, of Boston, receives an intranasal H1N1 vaccine at the primary care clinic at Children's Hospital Boston, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 in Boston. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

Al Gosling poses for pictures at the Sherbourne Community Health Centre in Toronto.

2009-09-23T23:25:57Z

September 17, 2009 Al Gosling poses for pictures at the Sherbourne Community Health Centre in Toronto. Gosling wants to go home. He has been without a place to live since June. He is 82 years old and remains chipper, but he is frail and unwell; at the moment, he is staying in the Sherbourne Community ...

50 million new patients? More primary docs a must

2010-02-25T08:07:20Z

<div><p>When Dr. Robert Flaherty launched a private practice in 2001, he soon found himself cramming in as many patients as possible to make ends meet, leaving little time to discuss with them the steps they could take to prevent future health troubles.</p><p>"I constantly felt that conflict of going faster than I should," said Flaherty, 40, of USA Toda...

Homeless would benefit from health care reform

2010-02-25T20:39:08Z

<div><p>Victor Rozanski's wife gave him an ultimatum: It's either me or the bottle. He chose the bottle.</p><p>The drinking wrecked his marriage. The 47-year-old lost his job as a printer, and hopped on a bus to Atlantic City, where his life's savings of $1,500 vanished in two days of drinking and gambling.</p><p>While sleeping in an alley one night, he ne...

Florida News - August 06, 2009

2009-08-14T07:00:00Z

073009IBMhealthVero (1 of 5) Palm Beach Post staff photo Sarah Grile/ 0065789A STORY BY Stacey Singer VERO BEACH- Dr. Dennis Saver, left, a family practice physician at Primary Care of the Treasure Coast in Vero Beach, meets with Bill Teston, of Vero Beach, while at his family practice office on Thursday....

Healthcare reform looms large in Texas

2010-02-26T02:31:45Z

<div><p>HOUSTON (Reuters) - At Ben Taub General Hospital in the rich U.S. oil hub of Houston, 52 people wait in a holding room designed for 26, in beds crammed so close together that patients can touch one another.&l...

First lady helps open Va. community health center

2010-02-26T04:08:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Michelle Obama cuts ribbon on Va. community health center aided by federal stimulus funds</div><div><p>First lady Michelle Obama promoted the work of community health centers on Monday, saying they have a critical place in her husband's effort to overhaul how the nation delivers health care.</p><p>At times echoing First Lady Michelle Obama's outreach to community health centers includes a visit to the Caroline Family Practice in Bowling Green, Virginia on Monday, July 27, 2009.. She will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to help open this new community health center, which was made possible through a $1.3 million award of Recovery Act ...

Michelle Obama Community Health

2009-07-27T15:17:08Z

First lady Michelle Obama's speaks at the Caroline Family Practice in Bowling Green, Va., Monday, July 27, 2009. She participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to help open this new community health center, which was made possible through a $1.3 million award of Recovery Act funds. (AP Photo/ Richmond Time...

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