This is the longest operating hospital in the US and the pride of
New York which has been known over the years for it’s psychiatric care but they do a lot more. If the hospital can re-open in 2 or e 3 weeks it will be doing good with the extensive damage suffered. There were over 700 patients in the hospital when the evacuation began. The national guard was called in to form a bucket brigade to get fuel to the generators. There was no power and plumbing.
There were prisoners among the patients and several hospitals were used to transfer patients to. What is amazing is to watch the number of ambulances that keep rolling in. BD
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NEW YORK (AP) — Flood damage at Bellevue Hospital is so extensive and severe that a full evacuation of patients was necessary, the president of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation said Wednesday, adding that the facility would be "doing very well" if it's able to reopen in even two or three weeks.
The hospital had moved out more than 400 patients by Wednesday evening and hoped to have the remaining 300 evacuated by noon Thursday, HHC President Alan Aviles said.
Bellevue lost power during Monday night's massive storm and had been operating on backup generators since then.
The National Guard helped carry some of the patients in more serious condition down as many as 18 flights of stairs, and on Wednesday, it became clear that the damage was so much that all of the patients needed out, Aviles said.
He said Bellevue, which he said was the longest-operating hospital in the country, had never experienced anything like this.
"Irene did not come close to creating a problem," he said, referring to last year's storm. He said the hospital sits about 20 feet above sea level, so "although we certainly prepared for the possibility, it seemed like it was relatively remote given" all of the projections about how high the storm surge would go.
…the 50 shades of rape and I guess when thinking math and experiencing pain for some reason or another and this is especially dangerous when creating laws or when campaigning, they go to something they can think about controlling and from what you have seen on the news and ridiculous statements made, I’m guessing “math” and this substantiated fear really had them running for the hills. 
approved for distribution of injectable drugs. The company has the same owners as NECC and was actually a spin off of that company a few years back as business was good. Ameridose has already ceased manufacturing in light of the NECC situation. Ameridose is contacting customers and sending information on how to return the products. In the past it was noted there was one issue with sterility a few years ago at the plant and this recall is precautionary. 
. A complete list of all products subject to this recall can be accessed at 
has been a flurry of “private” exchanges, some run by insurer subsidiary companies appear. This just goes to reinstate how things move rapidly in the world today and don’t stay the same for very long. I would guess insurers want every opportunity they can to have exposure to consumers to get their product offerings out there, but how this rolls out, we just don’t know yet. Are the exchanges going to be productive and carry a model that works? We don’t know. When you remove the over glorified word “exchange” it still health insurance contracts and a few weeks ago I wrote an article about the negotiations of such are “just a bitch” which I think pretty well describes is with the number of disputed health insurance contracts in the news. 
carrier hiring the former executive from HHS accredited with writing a lot of the Affordable Care Act on their payroll at a VP now? It just makes one wonder what the other insurers might have to say about this? Are lawsuits and hiring former Assistant Attorney Generals as general counsel and other examples of such becoming the norm? It’s all about those algorithms for profit, created by Quants for banks and companies with CEOs that can’t even begin to explain to consumers and Congress for that matter as to how they work. Scroll down and look to the left on this blog for some great educational videos and see if you have been duped a bit and see how fictional math enters into corporate business models today. Here’s some back links on this topic. 
see this is a subsidiary of Wellpoint now since they bough the company. Later down the road will folks remember that Wellpoint owns Bloom, maybe and maybe not, but if profit arise, it will be noted on those quarterly reports and conference calls. Also don’t forget that with the bidding process, insurers now own a great number of HMOs across the country too, and big ones, so there’s a little note of interest there as well. 
real tired of corporate America making more difficult for me as a consumer and the lack of Algorithm knowledge in the government as they are fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. Consumers all hate math for the most part and dive into the OMG news in the press and the media drives so much of this and it keeps all of us distracted as to what’s really happening behind the scenes and this keeps the disparity alive in the US as you are 
a few other areas that were affected. Of course getting patients out of the facility was the number one priority but there were a couple reports of some of the other items that are of importance as well. Long Island Jewish Health System had their back up generators working but the data center that handles the medical records had issues and the Staten Island Hospital had to go back to paper records. Sunrise Clinical Manager from what was Eclipsys was the system installed and is now part of Allscripts. The NYU hospital websites as of this morning still appears to be down with a message that gives you an update on where they are in coping with the storm. 
scientists were rolling a big freezer -- the size of a big refrigerator -- to an area of the hospital with emergency power, the source told the News. 
TEVA and this seems go along with what others pharmaceutical companies are doing as far as diversifying as prescription drugs come off patent. Most of the Schiff products are sold in retail locations with Costco and Wal-Mart have the lion’s share of the business and I see their products in Grocery stores too. 
nutritional products," Tarang Amin, president and CEO of Schiff, said in a prepared statement. "We are focused on building premium brands and leading innovation. We believe Bayer is well positioned to take our leading brands to the next level." 
to sift down to what they need and where they need it without a huge amount of time and effort. Memorial Sloan-Kettering made their announcement and their focus with IBM Watson is cancer. In Los Angeles we have Wellpoint footing the bill for use at Cedar Sinai Medical Center. The research of this is great to help treat patients and I hope that the clinical focus with IBM Watson stays at the front of the game and it doesn’t get diluted into a “payers” game with doing least cost routing and using algorithms to put patients and doctors where they would rather not be. 
The human quants have done fairly well up to now and use a lot of fictitious formulas to create profits with “desired” results taking over where accuracy should be the front concern. 
presentation states. Yes we have financial slant here with the information offered asking “what is my financial exposure” as seen on the website. They have apps for patients, Big Patients (I don’t it is meant for the overweight but rather playing on big data) And Clinical GPS. The more I look at the various software platforms out there I realize how much the US spends being the only country in the world that ties ICD codes to reimbursement. No wonder other countries move faster on some of this as the US needs jillions of more queries and data sets to make our stuff work and when we go to the new ICD 10 system, we’ll be catching up with writing the additional code and software and if you have not noticed, there’s tons of software out there already for that purpose too. 
effects include cold-like symptoms, headache, sinus infection, muscle pain, and sore throat and is a treatment for those with Diabetes 2. Now there’s a second generic of the drug available. It is usually not the first drug of choice though due to side effects and is prescribed as other drugs either don’t work for the patient or another need arises to change drugs. 
are not going to miss a potential deal when the price is so reasonable versus having code written in house:) So what did I mean by that? As in the title, all start ups don’t make it thus so those working on areas that relate to payers if they don’t make it on their own could be bought up cheap by the insurers that may want some of the code capabilities they write…it’s cheap for them and thus so they are in here as an investor and maybe even as mentors. 
so again keep it in context and know that some won’t make it, some may get bought, some will just go down the tubes, and I’m sure there’s a few other things that can happen too. Here’s a screenshot to the right from the Heritage page, looks just like a gaming site with scores, etc. 
not done right instead of patients and doctors embracing technologies,, they will start running over in the groves to join this group, the Institute for Research on Humanism in Medicine” 
blogged on this site over the last couple of years. It all started with me with finding my former doctor, who had been dead for 8 years still listed on their site and I’m sure some of the other issues have been fixed when they appear here as well:) I’m not a big fan up front about some of the statistics we see out there today and more on that later in the post. 
again what they are trying to sell you and thus I still maintain these rankings are useless as formulas, algorithms and math are in the hands of the creator. I said earlier more on this and I’ll include one of my absolute favorite videos from Professor Siefe of NYU, who also wrote the book, “Proofiness, the Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception” and the points he made and a bit of what I say here is going to be growing importance in the near future as dirty code, code for profit, complex business plans that event he companies an banks that use them don’t understand, etc. are going to become more main stage. It’s been going on for years and it’s time to again “look at the context” and see what message is really being relayed. If you watch Charlie’s video, he’ll tell you and he’s a smarter than me and it’s eye opener to make you think and wonder if you have been “Algo Duped”. 
system I’m with him and the same thoughts. See the example he gives on the algorithm written to tell you how perfect your “butt” is…and boy does it get play <grin>. How can there be a standard for the perfect butt…making sense yet? Formulas become national news. If it has a square root in the formula, oh it must be right…not <grin>. 
quality ranking system from 
in the clean rooms to sterilize. I read somewhere that they turned off the air conditioning from 8 pm to 5 am and that sounded strange. In my prior life in sales I have seen and been in a few clean rooms and the rules are pretty stringent for cleanliness and everyone wears a mask and hair net or cap while inside the room, even if not working in the room. If the air conditioning was in fact turned off for several hours that could explain how some of the mold and fungus may have has a little acceleration to grow as everyone that I had ever been inside was pretty cold. So far the death toll is 25. NECC was supplying hospital compounded drugs that were either less expensive or sometimes hard to get. There was also leaking water from a boiler and if that sat long enough something could have been going on there as well. 
year. The Triage product helps diagnose health conditions such as heart attacks and heart failure, pretty important. The FDA feels there are too many potential incidents of False Positive or False Negative results. There were reports of patients receiving inappropriate management based on the readings the machines were giving and it could jeopardize patient safety and even lead to death. Additional recall information can be 
warning letter to Alere Inc saying the diagnostic device maker's response to the health regulator's earlier observations on manufacturing processes for the company's Triage products was not adequate.
products from the facility in May after the FDA said it did not satisfy a particular quality control method as prescribed by the regulator.