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UPMC in Pittsburgh

UPMC – The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ( UPMC ) is a nonprofit health enterprise that operates on a global scale. It has a workforce of 92,000 employees, 40 hospitals with over 8,000 licensed beds, and 800 clinical locations, including outpatient sites and doctors’ offices. Additionally, it has a health insurance division with 3.8 million…

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More people should be making a noise about the UPMC shit. They’re actually still expanding, and they’re trying to get Geisinger to give up the hospital my mom works at. They fuckin took over Susquehanna health, what next? Sure one of their expansions was stopped but they still have Pittsburgh held hostage, and most likely Hershey and Williamsport. The only company here that can rival them is Geisinger, but even then Geisinger is wavering when it comes to their power over some areas, and guess who’s the cause of this? UPMC. 

Despite what this article says, UPMC is still being shitty, and is still practically near a monopoly. This needs to be stopped, they don’t care for anyones well beings, they’re just a corporation and nothing more. 

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Susquehanna Health Foundation celebrates lifetime achievements | News, Sports, Jobs

Susquehanna Health Foundation celebrates lifetime achievements | News, Sports, Jobs

<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Susquehanna Health Foundation recently recognized two extraordinary donors, Hani J. Tuffaha, M.D., and Robert P. Crockett, during the Seventh Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards, according to a recent press release. Tuffaha and Crockett were awarded both for their financial contributions to the Foundation and their work enhancing health care at UPMC in North Central Pa. The…

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Kathy A. Buck Obituary - Death: Kathy A. Buck Has Died

Kathy A. Buck Obituary - Death - Murder: Has Died, Murder, Is Dead - Passed Away, Cause Of Death, Funeral: April 23, 2021, InsideEko Media. Our hearts are heavy today as we mourn the passing of Kathy A. Buck, 60, of Montgomery, who... Click to read and leave a tribute.

Kathy A. Buck Obituary – Death – Murder: Has Died, Murder, Is Dead – Passed Away, Cause Of Death, Funeral: April 23, 2021, InsideEko Media. Our hearts are heavy today as we mourn the passing of Kathy A. Buck, 60, of Montgomery, who passed away Friday, April 16, 2021, at UPMC Susquehanna Williamsport, via social media posts on Twitter. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and…

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Bloomsburg University welcomes four new members to Council of Trustees

Four new members have been named to Bloomsburg University’s Council of Trustees (COT) after being appointed by Governor Tom Wolf and approved by the State Senate.

Appointed to the COT in January were Duane Greenly ’68 and Ray Zaborney ’16, while Dan Klingerman ‘87 and Colin McIntyre, student trustee, were confirmed in May 2020.

Greenly and Zaborney replace Ramona Alley and Charles Schlegel ’60, whose terms expired, while Klingerman will fill the vacancy of Pat Wilson ’91. McIntyre fills the vacancy of John Thomas ’20, who recently graduated.

Alley had served as a member of the COT since 1983, while Schlagel had been a trustee since 2007, with Wilson serving since 2010.

“On behalf of my fellow trustees, I am delighted to welcome the newest members of our Council and look forward to working with each of them,” stated the Honorable Mary Jane Bowes, Chair of BU’s Council of Trustees. “I express my deep appreciation and gratitude to our outgoing trustees for their leadership and service to Bloomsburg University and the Council of Trustees.”

“Our University’s chief priority remains our students and their success during and after their years at BU,” said BU President Bashar W. Hanna. “We never lose sight of this focus, thanks in large part to the efforts of our faculty and staff, and also because of the leadership and support of our trustees. We are very fortunate to benefit from the expertise and guidance of our Council of Trustees. While I am saddened to bid a formal farewell to our outgoing trustees, I am ever grateful for their contributions and look forward to reaching out to them for their continued guidance. I also look forward to welcoming our newest trustees in person when it is safe to do so.”

Greenly earned a bachelor’s degree from Bloomsburg State College and a master’s degree from Morehead University in Kentucky. He enjoyed a successful career with Deering-Milliken & Co., BF Goodrich, Newell Rubbermaid, Morgan Door, Barry Controls, and Ames True Temper and continues to work as a business consultant and mentor. He served two terms as president of the Bloomsburg University Foundation Board of Directors. The Greenly Center, BU’s first physical presence in downtown, is named after Duane and his wife, Sue Basar Greenly ’72.

Zaborney, who earned a degree in political science from BU, is the co-founder of Red Maverick Media, a media strategy group in Harrisburg. He is also the founding partner of State Street Strategies, a lobbying and government relations firm he operates with his wife, Jen. He was named a rising star in Pennsylvania Politics in 2004 by PoliticsPA and was named as one of the nation’s 10 rising stars in Republican Politics by Campaigns and Elections in 2006. Campaigns and Elections Magazine named Zaborney one of the five most influential Republicans in the state. In 2013, Zaborney won one of Central Penn Business Journal’s “40 under 40” awards.  He has been named one of the top 17 most influential people in the state by Pennlive.com and as one of the hundred most powerful people in the state by City and State Magazine.

Klingerman graduated from BU with a degree in accounting and a minor in economics. He owns and operates the Liberty Group, a private equity holding and investment company with his primary focus geared towards the acquisition, development and financing of hotels, restaurants and commercial ventures. Klingerman is also involved in many nonprofit organizations, local boards, and committees focusing on economic growth and job creation. Klingerman currently holds board seats on various nonprofits such as the UPMC Susquehanna Health System, and The First Community Foundation Partnership.

McIntyre, a rising senior, is a computer science major from Marietta, Pa. McIntyre is a five-time member of the Dean’s List, a member of the Honors College, plays club tennis, and served as both a member of the campus food service committee and the campus shuttle bus committee.

The next Council of Trustees quarterly meeting will take place virtually on Wednesday, June 3, at 10 a.m.

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Tick-borne disease with symptoms similar to COVID-19 on the rise in New York state - fox6now.com

Tick-borne disease with symptoms similar to COVID-19 on the rise in New York state – fox6now.com

Tick-borne disease with symptoms similar to COVID-19 on the rise in New York state  fox6now.com

Avoiding Ticks and Lyme Disease: UPMC Susquehanna Medical Director of Infectious Diseases Provides Safety Tips  WENY-TV

Tick-Bite Disease With Symptoms Similar to COVID-19 on Rise in New York State  The Epoch Times

VERIFY: Lyme disease symptoms can be mistaken for COVID-19  WUSA9.com

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Digital consults with allergists save time for medical doctors and sufferers

http://tinyurl.com/y2k4t7tu When allergy specialists advise different medical doctors by way of “e-consults,” everybody – sufferers included – saves time, a brand new research suggests. In an e-consult, specialists overview a affected person’s digital medical report via a safe portal and reply questions from main care medical doctors who search their recommendation and opinion. This technique is meant to exchange the casual “curbside” apply of clinicians looking for medical opinions from specialists by strolling into their places of work, or over the telephone. Casual consultations don’t get documented within the medical report, and moreover, specialists could get very restricted or nonspecific info “and so they’re making an attempt to make use of that to make a suggestion,” stated research writer Dr. Neelam Phadke from the Massachusetts Common Hospital in Boston, the place the brand new research was carried out. Phadke’s workforce analyzed roughly 300 allergy e-consults and located multiple in 4 offered recommendation and schooling with out the affected person needing to go for additional diagnostic testing or to see a subspecialist. Half the time, allergists wanted not more than 11 minutes to finish an e-consult. “That features the period of time the allergist took to learn the questions, to overview the charts, to make their suggestions and to ship these suggestions again to the first care physician,” Phadke advised Reuters Well being by telephone. “There’s little question that for all the people who find themselves key gamers right here, there’s a vital time saving.” The research additionally discovered that half the time, allergists had been ready to answer requests from different clinicians inside 22 hours. Conventional wait occasions are a few month for sufferers whose instances have been flagged to allergists by main care medical doctors that don’t use e-consults, as a result of sufferers should then await an appointment with the allergist. Though the research was not designed to have a look at prices, earlier research recommend almost $125 is saved for each conventional new affected person seek the advice of changed with an e-consult. Nonetheless, e-consults will not be but well-liked amongst allergists. One purpose may be that e-consults will not be presently acknowledged by well being insurers for reimbursement, Phadke stated. Dr. Tania Elliott, an allergist at NYU Langone Well being in New York Metropolis, who was not concerned within the research, additionally famous that administrative, operational and academic boundaries have to be addressed to ensure that e-consults to change into mainstream. She agreed that e-consults can cut back pointless referrals and diagnostic assessments. “There may be specific potential to make use of them to deal with drug allergy, significantly penicillin allergy, and even pores and skin allergy symptoms akin to atopic dermatitis and urticaria, if excessive decision photographs are uploaded and despatched to the allergist,” she stated. Dr. Nathaniel Hare, an allergist on the UPMC Susquehanna Well being Allergy Clinic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, believes e-consults might change into fairly well-liked. “I stay in a comparatively rural space in central Pennsylvania and care for sufferers that typically drive an hour or extra to see me,” Hare, who was not concerned within the research, stated. “There are occasions when I’m merely taking a historical past that may very well be executed with out them there after which scheduling testing for a future date. I feel having an e-consult first might assist tackle these kinds of points.” For the research, researchers reviewed outcomes of 306 e-consults carried out between 2016 and 2018. They discovered that 60% of sufferers who acquired an e-consult required an in-person seek the advice of to finish analysis and administration, whereas 13% of sufferers acquired solely digital steerage for diagnostic, therapeutic, or referral suggestions that had been adopted almost 75% of the time. “The thought put ahead on this research holds water provided that you are able to do e-consults (that may substitute) an in-clinic go to … in a vogue that’s cheaper and extra environment friendly,” Hare cautions. “The nearer I get to establishing a affected person schedule that’s 100% filled with sufferers who must see me, the higher use I’m making of my time and sufferers’ time.” SOURCE: bit.ly/2NDnnBo Journal of Allergy and Medical Immunology: In Observe, on-line June 3, 2019. Our Requirements:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

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Nurse comforts 5-year-old waking up from surgery in touching photo

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — When a 5-year-old Pennsylvania boy woke up from his tonsil surgery, all he wanted was to be snuggled and cared for.

That’s when a nurse jumped in to help.

That unexpected gesture was caught on camera and has been shared hundreds of times.

Slade Thompson, of Clinton County, waited patiently for his new friend, nurse Annie Hager. Thompson came to UPMC last month to get his tonsils out. It was his second surgery this year.

“He’s been through a lot this last year,” Slade’s mother, Layla Thompson, told WNEP. “We had been in the children’s hospital, so we were kind of nervous just going to a hospital to have it done.”

The day of surgery came and went well. Slade’s mom Layla was in the waiting room.

“They came out and said, ‘He’s awake,’ and we thought, ‘Oh, my goodness,'” Layla said.

Before mom could go back to see Slade, a team of nurses had to check her son’s vitals.

“When I told him mom couldn’t be there, he asked if I would snuggle him and I said, ‘sure will,'” said Annie Hager, a registered nurse at UPMC Susquehanna Health in Williamsport.

That single act of kindness made Layla’s concerns for her son disappear.

“You want someone to treat your child the way you would treat them, you know, so whenever I turned the corner and saw them, I looked at my fiance and we both went, ‘Aww!’ We both started getting a little teary-eyed,” she recalled.

She snapped a photo that’s been shared hundreds of times on social media.

“Anyone that works up there would have done the same thing,” Hager said.

When Slade and his mom came back for another appointment they brought a gift — flowers and a hug for their new friend.

“I cried, yeah,” Hager said. “It’s humbling.”

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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE-PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS-SPECIFICITY

Shaheen v. The Williamsport Hospital, No. 18-0188 (C.P. Lycoming January 22, 2019) Linhardt, J.  This matter concerns Eli Shaheen’s (“Plaintiff”) suit against The Williamsport Hospital and UPMC Susquehanna (“Defendants”) on behalf of Val Cooper (“Ms. Cooper”) who allegedly died from third degree burns resulting from Ms. Cooper’s use of a cigarette lighter while connected to supplemental oxygen.1 Plaintiff claims that Defendants, and their agents, were negligent, careless and/or reckless for failing to appropriately supervise and attend to Ms. Cooper when they knew she was addicted to tobacco and suffering from dementia.

In the present case, the focus is on an inanimate object and its travels through the hospital. Allowing Plaintiff to broadly proclaim culpability of the entire hospital enters a plain beyond Sokolsky and its progeny. The Court will not entertain a fishing expedition. Plaintiff is required to amend his complaint to include general identifiers for those actors or agents Plaintiff believes are culpable.

The facts do not allege that consultations were necessary, that Ms. Cooper was improperly diagnosed, or that medical staff were improperly granted privileges. Therefore, Plaintiff is required to amend the Complaint to include factual support or remove those subparagraphs from Plaintiff’s Fourth Amended Complaint.

Plaintiff’s theory of the case presumes recklessness, the facts averred do not support a claim for punitive damages.

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Hospitals provide charges on website, but it's not as useful as you might think

The big news last week was the effective date of the law requiring hospitals to make their chargemaster public. But, as the article illustrates, this means next to nothing to patients as the costs of care are entirely dependent on the negotiated rates of their provider and the plan design of their specific health plan. 

Hospitals provide charges on website, but it's not as useful as you might think

by Paul J. Gough

The region’s hospitals have uploaded to their websites a list of charges for services, supplies and medications, as required Tuesday by the federal government. But it’s an open question about whether the data will be useful on its own for patients and businesses who crave pricing and transparency in health care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services mandated all hospitals provide their standard pricing online beginning Jan. 1 in a bid to increase transparency in health care. Some in the region, including Mon Valley Hospital and Uniontown Hospital, had already offered some level of pricing data online. But now all hospitals must provide a detailed list of charges, called a chargemaster, and there has been a flurry of activity in recent days on hospital websites.

Most of the hospitals in the region met the Jan. 1 deadline, although UPMC hospitals' data were still being uploaded Wednesday. It wasn't immediately clear when the UPMC hospitals would have all the information available. Some of the hospitals, including UPMC Susquehanna, were already online and the others were being put online Wednesday.

The chargemaster is considered the starting point for the cost of hospital procedures, supplies and medication, but experts say it's more of a guide and how much what someone with insurance would pay.

It's not easy to find on most hospital websites. (Try searching "chargemaster.") And the data isn’t user-friendly, and doesn’t provide reasons for a wide variation in pricing between hospitals and sometimes within hospitals. The Allegheny Health Network chargemaster, for instance, provides costs for 160,000 procedures, diagnostic tests, drugs and supplies that isn’t what it ends up costing due to insurer contracts, Medicare and Medicaid, and others.

“The chargemaster is generally not a factor in determining the patient’s portion of payment when third-party insurance coverage is available,” AHN spokesman Dan Laurent said.

Hospitals on their websites provide the information but said that the standard charges don’t mean that’s what patients will pay.

“It is highly unlikely that this will provide any meaningful information that would be useful for patients. It is important to understand that the standard charge is not the amount that a patient is expected to pay for receiving healthcare services. A patient’s financial obligation is determined by many factors, including insurance coverage and benefit plan limits,” UPMC spokesman Susan Manko said.

Said AHN's Laurent: “Without context, the chargemaster prices may be of limited value to patients."

Uniontown Hospital has had standard charges on its website for a while but uploaded more information to comply with the rule in late December.

“The prices contained in the chargemaster cover so many items and so many things, there really isn’t a one-stop location to gain an understanding of how they are made,” said Joshua Krysak, a spokesman for Uniontown Hospital.

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Williamsport, PA – One Dead and One Injured in Fatal Bus Crash

Police Investigate Fatal Bus Crash

Willliamsport, PA (December 14, 2018) On the morning of December 11th, a fatal bus crash accident occurred at the intersection of Maynard and West Third streets. According to officials, a bus crashed into a 2004 Mazda 6 on the passenger side, which pushed the car in a different direction. The car then crashed into a curb, pedestrian lamp signal, and then into a building at 867 West Third Street. When emergency crews arrived at the scene to help, they found the driver of the Mazda, 49-year-old Ronald H. Levine, dead at the scene. They transported the bus driver, 63-year-old Robert D. Kock, to UPMC Susquehanna for treatment of minor injuries. No passengers were on the bus at the time of the accident. The accident is currently under investigation.

Our condolences go to Levine’s family as we know how difficult it is to lose a loved one, especially in an accident that could have possibly been prevented. We also hope Kock fully recovers from his injuries.

Bus Accidents in Pennsylvania

All buses are required to follow the common carrier law, which states that drivers must drive responsibly at all times since they’re responsible for so many lives. Bus drivers are not allowed to use their phones, drink alcohol, or take their eyes off of the road for any reason while they drive. The police are currently investigating this accident to determine what caused the accident and who will be held liable. Depending on their findings, a wrongful death lawsuit and personal injury lawsuit may be filed.

At Edelstein, Martin & Nelson, we have some of the best personal injury attorneys at our firm ready to fight for the rights of our clients. We don’t think it’s fair for our clients to be held financially responsible for the possible negligence of another driver. If you or someone you know received injuries or worse in a bus accident, call (215) 731-9900.

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