The court order said that CMS had no clear authority from Congress to enact the vaccine mandate for providers participating in the two government healthcare programs for the elderly, disabled and poor.
Dr. Akram Boutros will retire as president and CEO of MetroHealth at the end of 2022 after leading the public health system since 2013, he announced on Monday, Nov. 29.
The health system will solicit project ideas from clinicians and patients to address health equity and accessibility challenges.
Rush said it's investigating potential financial misappropriation by a former executive at its Oak Park hospital. The health system did not say how much money was involved.
The state is also offering to pay temporary pharmacists in order to bolster workforces, but only at independent pharmacies.
From just over 200 new confirmed cases per day in recent weeks, South Africa saw the number of new daily cases rocket to more than 3,200 on Saturday.
The world should now be “wide awake” to the threat of the coronavirus, “but omicron’s very emergence is another reminder that although many of us might think we are done with COVID-19. It’s not done with us,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
The Build Back Better Act wields a stick against the expansion holdout states but strikes it squarely on providers that had little say in the expansion decisions.
