Legacy hospitals came away with the highest number of fines imposed by Medicare for 2016 based on the high rates of potentially avoidable infections and complications such as blood clots, bed sores and falls.
Act Now for a Healthy Oregon -- the healthcare advocacy arm of the Service Employees International Union, Local 49 -- has painted a damning snapshot of the state of healthcare coverage in Oregon and the continued unaffordability of the health system in its latest report: “In the Red for a Hospital Bed.”
A high cost estimate for the continued use of the federal health exchange has led the Department of Consumer & Business Services to consider other options, but consumers and insurance brokers might have good reason to be skeptical of the state abandoning a smooth-running federal website for another state-based website.
The author says that several factors have major effects on dental health, especially diet, personal dental habits, professional care and genetics. But based on a wealth of credible data, fluoridation isn’t one of them.
