
In training simulation, rude comments drove outcomes disparities

In training simulation, rude comments drove outcomes disparities


Sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law doesn’t start for another couple of months, but the next few days are crucial for hundreds of thousands of customers at risk of losing financial aid when they renew coverage for 2016. Call them tardy tax filers: an estimated 1.8 million households that got subsidies for their premiums last year but failed to file a 2014 tax return as required by the law, or left out key IRS paperwork.


In a new twist on its retail health clinic model, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) says it will open up to 25 new retail clinics in Oregon and Washington states that will be owned and operated by a Seattle-based health system. The collaboration calls for Walgreens’ partner, Providence Health & Services, a large hospital operator in the Seattle and Portland areas, to own and operate the clinics inside Walgreen drugstores throughout the northwestern U.S. states.