Hospitals are selling longevity now. Some of their own doctors have doubts
At least nine nonprofit health systems now run cash-pay longevity clinics, with packages from $4,800 a year. Some of their own physicians question what patients are buying.
Hannah Gerber
Public health reporter in Chicago. Writes The Chart, our weekday morning newsletter, and spent six years as an ICU nurse before she started asking questions for a living.
The Chart: a measles count, a hospital merger, and why nurses are leaving nights
Good morning, it’s Hannah. Measles cases climb in eastern Oregon, two Ohio hospital systems agree to merge, and night-shift nurses say why they quit.
County health departments are losing epidemiologists faster than they can hire them, survey finds
A national survey of 1,200 local health departments found that one in three lost an epidemiologist last year. Fewer than half filled the job.
In rural Kansas, the pharmacist is becoming the first stop for care
With the nearest primary care clinic an hour away, a pharmacy in western Kansas now checks blood pressure, adjusts diabetes medicines and refers patients on.