Prime Health Services and St. Thomas Health Services Renew Contract
Prime Health Services (Prime Health), a national Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), is proud to announce a renewed commitment to servicing the needs of the workers? compensation payor community in the Middle-Tennessee market with St. Thomas Health Services . Prime Health Services contract entails working with St. Thomas Health Services and their family of hospitals in Middle Tennessee ...

Nigeria: Lagos Promises Uninterrupted Health Services
As a faction of the Medical Guild begins their strike action, the Lagos State government has assured the people that all health services being provided in her hospitals would not be disrupted as medical directors have been charged to ensure uninterrupted health services.

Jail earns accreditation for mental health services
Inmates at the Richland County jail are evaluated for needed mental health services when they arrive. Nearly one in five of them get help while they?re incarcerated. And after they serve their time, psychiatric patients continue to be monitored in hopes they?ll improve. Those are among new standards that have earned the jail accreditation by the country?s leading advocates of jail health care. ...

Health Kudos: Mission names new chief of respiratory services
ASHEVILLE ? John H. Riggs has been named director of respiratory services at Mission Hospitals.

Nation's health spending rises, but not so much
Health care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services increased 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion.

Services expanding at health center
WESTFIELD - Greater Westfield Free Health Services Inc. will start providing health care and services to those with limited or no health-care coverage, beginning on Jan. 14.

Zambo prioritizes health program for 2009
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Jan. 6 (PNA) -? The city government has placed on top of its priorities the improvement of the health centers in the barangays as well as the delivery of basic medical services to the people of this city.

Union govt grants Rs 30 cr to set up Centre for Excellence in mental health at Dharwad
In a bid to provide the comprehensive of mental health services in Karnataka, Union government has sanctioned Rs 30 crore to open up the Centre of Excellence in the Dharwad Medical College and Hospital in north Karnataka.

Nation?s health spending rises, but not so much
Tue, Jan 6, 2009 (12:18 a.m.) Health care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services increased 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion.

U.S. health spending slows in '97, but outpaces overall economic growth
Health spending in the United States slowed somewhat in 2007, but still outpaced overall economic growth, according to a report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Boost for mental health services
Mental health services in Suffolk are to be expanded following a £23.3m award.

Nation's health spending rises, but not so much
By By KEVIN FREKING -- Health care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services increased 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion. There was a silver lining in the numbers: The increase in health spending was the smallest since 1998, thanks largely to the growing use of generic drugs. Officials worry that devoting more resources to health ...

Rise in health care spending slows down
Health care spending in the U.S. grew 6.1 percent in 2007 to $2.2 trillion, or $7,421 per person, the slowest rate of growth since 1998, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

12:10 p.m. ? Shriners medical team to offer services
12:10 p.m. ? The Department of Public Health and Social Services has announced that a medical team from the Shriners Hospital for Children in Hawaii will provide free consultative services for children with special health care needs who are age 18 and younger, who have an orthopedic, arthritic or plastic surgical condition such as deformities, disease and injuries involving the bones, joints and ...

Spending Rise for Health Care and Prescription Drugs Slows
National health spending grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, mainly because prescription drug spending increased at the slowest pace since 1963.

Ochsner ? O?Neal offering cancer services
Published: Jan 5, 2009 - UPDATED: 2 p.m. Ochsner announced today that it has expanded oncology services at its Ochsner Health Center on O?Neal Lane near Interstate 12 to serve eastern Baton Rouge and Livingston Parish.

Regulators crack down on Citrus Health Care
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has ordered Citrus Health Care Inc. to suspend enrollment of and marketing to Medicare beneficiaries.

Apple fans relieved about Jobs health news
After months of speculation about his health, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Monday that his doctors believe a hormonal imbalance is to blame for his alarming weight loss.

Cold Weather Brings Hypothermia Threat - Oregon Department Of Health
Low winter temperatures have brought warnings from experts in the Oregon Department of Human Services State Public Health Division. Exposure to cold can lead to hypothermia, so it is important to protect yourself against it. Hypothermia occurs when heat escapes from your body faster than it can warm itself and you body's core body temperature falls lower than 95 degrees F.

Landgraf named to head troubled Social Services department
Gov.-elect Jack Markell announced Tuesday he will nominate Rita Landgraf to be his administration's Secretary of Health and Social Services. The massive state department has been in the headlines of late, due to long-running problems with the Delaware Psychiactric Center.