- Healthcare providers (click here) around the country are taking a literal approach to mobile health these days. They’re customizing RVs, vans, buses and ambulances with telemedicine tools and wireless connectivity to bring healthcare to underserved populations, reduce time to treatment in emergencies and make life easier for schoolchildren and their parents.
In Flagstaff, Ariz., a mobile medical unit affectionately called the “Big Orange Bus” is on the road almost every day of the week in this city of 70,000, visiting businesses, schools and homeless shelters and generally serving as a roving resource for North Country HealthCare’s outreach to underserved neighborhoods....
There is surgery conducted over transmission lines. There is simply no excuse for any of this negligence.
September 28, 2018By Ron Fonger
Just months after the federal government recognized (click here) a health emergency because of Flint's water in 2016, the Genesee County Health Department was drowning in what came next.
The county couldn't keep up with followup care for hundreds of city kids identified with lead poisoning during the Flint water crisis - more than 200 at the start of the new year, according to state and county records requested by MLive-The Flint Journal through the Freedom of Information Act.
When the state Department of Health and Human Services assessed the county's performance in providing after-care to children with blood lead levels above 5 micrograms per deciliter, it found 85 percent - 173 of 204 children -- had not been connected to the program set up to make them better.
The county's own statistics show that by mid-March, 73 percent of children referred for after-care were not active in case management.
But by May 2016, the county's contract to handle the work had been terminated because of low levels of engagement and a reluctance to take federal resources offered to improve its performance, MDHHS spokeswoman Geralyn Lasher said....
