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New VA med center focuses on women’s health
The Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center has officially opened its new Women Veterans Health & Wellness Center to better meet the needs of the nation’s fastest-growing veteran population.VA officials and veterans toured the new center last week — along with the expansion of its Prime Care Clinic — that will ...
Dayton on leading edge for women health care execs
The Dayton regional is well ahead of the national average for women heading up hospitals, and experts credit a family-friendly community as well as a strong tradition of women leaders at local faith-based hospitals. In the Greater Dayton region, five of 13 hospitals in Butler, Greene, Miami and Montgomery counties ...
Dayton VA directs focus to female veterans' needs
The Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center officially opened its new Women Veterans Health & Wellness Center Friday to better meet the needs of the nation’s fastest-growing veteran population. VA officials and veterans toured the new center — along with the expansion of its Prime Care Clinic — that will increase ...
Fully automated pharmacy marks grand opening
A state-of-the-art automated pharmacy aims to improve safety, cut costs and improve efficiency for long-term care facility residents in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. Remedi SeniorCare celebrated its grand opening Tuesday at its newest facility. The $10 million facility serves more than 8,000 residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities and ...
Kettering Health taps 1st female president
Terri Day, a longtime executive in the faith-based Adventist heath care system in California and Ohio, was named Monday as the first woman president to lead the four-decade old Kettering Health Network. Day’s ascension to one of the top health care posts in the Miami Valley puts women at or ...
Kettering Health Network names 1st woman president
Terri Day was named today as the first woman president of Kettering Health Network, which operates eight hospitals in the Dayton and Butler County region. Day, a longtime executive with the Adventist faith-based heathcare system, will be responsible for providing operational oversight to align all hospitals and facilities in the ...
New CEO: Dayton Children’s future remains strong
Deborah Feldman acknowledges she might seem an odd choice to run a hospital. She has a background in government, not health care. She never attended medical school. But Feldman’s choice as president and chief executive officer of Children’s Medical Center of Dayton reflects the changing dynamics of operating a small ...
Big decisions coming with health care reforms
The nation’s controversial health-care reform law will likely move forward after the re-election of President Barack Obama. Key questions remain, though, even after Tuesday’s election gave the apparent go-ahead to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Pockets of state-level resistance may delay or stall the law in some parts ...
Big decisions coming with health care reforms
The nation’s controversial health-care reform law will likely move forward after the re-election of President Barack Obama. Key questions remain, though, even after Tuesday’s election gave the apparent go-ahead to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Pockets of state-level resistance may delay or stall the law in some parts ...
Ohio faces filling physician shortages in future
By 2020, Ohio is expected to be short by just over 5,000 primary care physicians to take care of basic health needs. Nurse practitioners could help fill that shortage. But a number of barriers — a lack of nursing instructors at all levels, billing issues, regulatory limitations on practices and ...
Countywide challenge aims to prevent holiday weight gain
On average, Americans gain a pound or two every year during the holidays.That might not sound like much, said Montgomery County Health Commissioner Jim Gross, but most people hold onto that weight — and might gain more — over the course of the next year.“That’s 20 to 40 pounds over ...
Ohio looking at custom-mix prescription pharmacies
Ohio is cracking down on pharmacies that custom-mix individualized prescriptions in the wake of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak tied to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. Statewide, 17 pharmacies are now specially designated as compounding sites, said Jesse L. Wimberly, spokesman and pharmacy inspector for the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. ...
FDA releases list of drugs shipped by shuttered Mass. pharmacy
Patients can check a list released Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration to determine if they received a medication prepared or shipped by a now-closed compounding pharmacy linked to a nationwide fatal fungal meningitis outbreak.The list of medications includes 16 providers in the Dayton and Cincinnati regions and nearly ...
Soin earns provisional trauma designation
Soin Medical Center in Beavercreek has been designated a provisional Level III trauma center by the state, its parent network announced Wednesday.In Ohio, a hospital must undergo two reviews by the American College of Surgeons — one for the provisional designation, and the second for the permanent designation.Level III is ...
More ticks could mean more Lyme disease
More blacklegged or “deer” ticks in Ohio’s forests could lead to more Lyme disease and other infections in humans, state health officials warn.The state has seen a “dramatic increase” in the ticks’ numbers in the last few years, said Richard Gary, state entomologist for the Ohio Department of Health.The ticks ...
Genetic testing latest breast cancer hope
Joan Fahringer and Josie Shuler both have breast cancer. But though have the same diagnosis, they have very different diseases that require very different treatments. For Fahringer and Shuler and countless other women, research is the key to finding the right weapon in their battle against breast cancer. And in ...
Tainted steroid sickens local man
A 52-year-old Warren County man is the ninth in Ohio sickened in an outbreak of a rare brain infection that has resulted in the deaths of 19 people nationwide.The Ohio Department of Health released no additional details Wednesday about the man as the multistate fungal meningitis cases continue to grow. ...
Cold spells end to West Nile season
The mosquitoes that spread West Nile virus are mostly settling in for winter hibernation. Culex mosquitoes, unlike some other mosquito species, do not die off once the weather turns cold, said Richard Gary, public health entomologist with the Ohio Department of Health. They hibernate and re-emerge in spring and summer. ...
Open enrollment for Medicare available Monday
Open enrollment for Medicare beneficiaries interested in changing coverage plans opens Monday. The Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program is offering one-on-one reviews to help beneficiaries pick the best coverage option, said Lt. Gov. and Department of Insurance director Mary Taylor. “Determining the appropriate Medicare coverage should be done with ...
Local residents divided over ‘Obamacare’
Health care reform is a key issue in the November presidential election. We asked readers what they think it should look like.Cady Gebhardt, 22, Dayton“I would like to see people who need health care be able to get it. But the people who don’t need it shouldn’t have to buy ...
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