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ChristianaCare, Delaware’s largest health system and private employer, raised its minimum wage to $16.50 an hour last week, a wage increase the system said affects about 850 workers.Delaware’s minimum wage, currently $13.25 an hour, is scheduled to rise to $15 an hour on January 1st of next year.The Inquirer reached out to Philadelphia-area health systems to see how ChristianaCare’s new minimum wage compares.Crozer Health, Doylestown Health, Prime Healthcare and Tower Health did not respond to The Inquirer’s requests for information. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Cooper University Healthcare, Grand View Health, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic and Pennsylvania Medicine declined to disclose their…

The first half of 2024 has brought positive momentum for women’s health, from President Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Women’s Health Research and Innovation to Vice President Harris’ support for women’s reproductive health and safety, from the launch of the Women’s Health PAC to Melinda French-Gates’ plan to invest $1 billion in women and their health. But in this article, we’ll look not at policies, plans, or PACs, but at women’s health fundraising data for the first half of the year, from January 1 to June 30, 2024. We’ll compare the 2024 midpoint fundraising data to historical midpoints to see…

The first half of 2024 has brought positive momentum for women’s health, from President Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Women’s Health Research and Innovation to Vice President Harris’ support for women’s reproductive health and safety, from the launch of the Women’s Health PAC to Melinda French-Gates’ plan to invest $1 billion in women and their health. But in this article, we’ll look not at policies, plans, or PACs, but at women’s health fundraising data for the first half of the year, from January 1 to June 30, 2024. We’ll compare the 2024 midpoint fundraising data to historical midpoints to see…

Credit: Steward/Adobe Stock (WKBN) — In a prolonged ordeal, Steward Healthcare System is again extending a deadline to sell its hospitals after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 6. Steward Health operates 31 hospitals in eight states, including Trumbull Regional Medical Center in Warren, Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital in Howland and Sharon Regional Medical Center. A sale hearing scheduled for July 31 has been postponed until Aug. 13, according to documents filed Sunday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, where Steward Health is based. The deadline for filing a sufficiency assurance challenge and the…

Listen to the article 3 minutes This audio is automatically generated, please let us know if you have any feedback. 55% of American adults Affordability and access to healthcare and medicines The second half of 2023 is expected to see the lowest percentage of respondents saying they can afford health care since the two companies began tracking that issue in 2021, according to a survey by Gallup and health policy institute West Health. In a survey conducted between Nov. 13, 2023 and Jan. 8, 2024 among 5,149 respondents ages 18 and over, the ability to afford medical costs was more…

Central Florida high school students recently gained a week of hands-on health science experience at the Health Leaders Summer Academy (HLSA) held at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. HLSA spans multiple campuses and professional schools, including UCF’s College of Health Professions Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, UCF Downtown and the Orlando VA Medical Center, providing experiential learning for students interested in health-related careers. The students visited the UCF School of Nursing where faculty and staff gave an interactive tour of the facility’s various simulation rooms. Students received training on how to stop bleeding in large…

“No Soldiers Left” paves the way through the barriers of pain To self-awareness From the Summer 2024 issue of Dazed. The latest issue is available to buy. here. “Comfort is suicide” is just one of the many war novel-esque mantras that flood the Instagram feed of London collective No Soldiers Left Behind (NSLB). Another is “No individual is better than family.” Formed in 2023 by friends Femi, Joey, and FK, NSLB is a semi-anonymous London collective that fuses fitness and streetwear culture, hosting military-style Saturday workout sessions, as well as guerrilla clothing pop-ups, guided exercise events, and video campaigns. “You…

“No Soldiers Left” paves the way through the barriers of pain To self-awareness From the Summer 2024 issue of Dazed. The latest issue is available to buy. here. “Comfort is suicide” is just one of the many war novel-esque mantras that flood the Instagram feed of London collective No Soldiers Left Behind (NSLB). Another is “No individual is better than family.” Formed in 2023 by friends Femi, Joey, and FK, NSLB is a semi-anonymous London collective that fuses fitness and streetwear culture, hosting military-style Saturday workout sessions, as well as guerrilla clothing pop-ups, guided exercise events, and video campaigns. “You…

American Journal of Epidemiology Abstract: Adverse neighborhood conditions are associated with poorer health outcomes, but the health effects of cumulative exposure to adverse neighborhood conditions over the lifetime have been understudied. Using up to 50 years of residential histories and spatiotemporally related neighborhood conditions for 4,177 adults from the Wisconsin Health Survey (SHOW), we developed four operational approaches to characterize cumulative (dis)advantageous neighborhood conditions over the lifetime. We estimated associations with self-reported general health outcomes and compared them to estimates using neighborhood (dis)advantageous conditions at study enrollment.When assessing cumulative exposure at the finest time scale (approach 4), neighborhood transportation constraints…

If there is one space in the national economy that is consistent with the American ideal of a highly competitive free enterprise system, it is adaptability. There are almost as many fitness companies as there are shampoos, so if you can’t find a place where you can sweat, lose weight, and get stronger and leaner, you’ve got to blame yourself.reference: Faura CEO Valkyrie Holmes joins the startup ranks On a list of 111 fitness companies with at least 100,000 square feet of space provided by CoStar Group, Crunch Fitness was tied for No. 8 with 9.8 million square feet and…