Tag: Commentary

Jefferson Health leadership share how community values matter and will see us through these uncertain times.

Hahnemann’s closure has profoundly affected cardiology patients and providers.

On May 1, 2019, Beyond Meat, a company that produces meat-free look-alikes to classic meat products, priced its initial public offering at $25 a share. Today, not even a year later, the share price sits at $119.49 after climbing to an astounding $239.71 last year. What's driving this food frenzy?

How MANNA, a Philadelphia volunteer service, helps a Jefferson physician nourish her patients to achieve greater health.

“Appreciating, understanding and accepting each other’s ‘uniqueness’ is fundamental to the job every one of us in health care carries out every day.”

Faculty and staff share what the closure means to them, Jefferson and Philadelphia.

Adam Sagot's life changed forever in June 2019. He not only became a father to a daughter but also received notice that his fellowship program would be closing—all at the same time.

Any relationship with industry, whether with a center director or any other member of the scientific or medical community, must be honest.

Hahnemann's closure was a national warning about the cost of caring for vulnerable populations, the aging of legacy hospitals, the speeding shift to outpatient care, the rise of virtual care, the competitiveness of nonhospital providers, and the gridlock in Washington.

Upon learning that Drexel-Hahnemann residents and their supervising faculty would resign, Abington Hospital’s leaders had two weeks to develop a plan for the transition of nine medical services and one intensive care service involving 120 patients.