http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/what-makes-an-ideal-chief-quality-officer.html
“With the growing elderly population across America and West Virginia, obviously we need healthcare providers,” Goldberg said. That includes geriatricians — physicians who specialize in the treatment of adults age 65 and older — as well as nurses, physical therapists and psychologists who know how to care for this population.
“The current workforce is inadequately trained and inadequately prepared to deal with what’s been called the silver tsunami — a tidal wave of elderly people — increasing in the population in West Virginia, across America and across the world really,” Goldberg said.
The deficit of properly trained physicians is expected to get worse. By 2030, one in five Americans will be eligible for Medicare, the government health insurance for those 65 and older.
https://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/5-ways-to-deal-with-jackholiness/
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The first case of sexual transmission of Zika virus from a woman to a man appears to have occurred in New York City, health officials there reported Friday.
The unnamed woman “engaged in a single event of condomless vaginal intercourse with a male partner the day she returned to NYC from travel to an area with ongoing Zika virus transmission,” according to Alexander Davidson, MPH, and colleagues in the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, during which she had already begun to show symptoms of infection.
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Health care added 38,500 new jobs in June, consistent with the 12-month average of 40,100 new jobs per month. Growth in both ambulatory care settings and hospitals was barely under the pace seen over the past year, with ambulatory care adding 19,300 jobs and hospitals adding 15,000 jobs in June. Health jobs grew 3.2% year over year while non-health jobs grew 1.6%, increasing the health share of total employment to a new all-time high of 10.78%.
