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It's our imperative to maximize mobility in our patients’ lives. Our team of specialists at the Wheelchair Seating and Mobility Clinic at Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital conducts personalized ...
The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission released data in December that show that of 158 transactions involving health care providers between 2013 and 2022, 71 involved private equity firms, 29 ...
A group of protesters -- some wheelchair-bound or wearing medical devices -- were dragged away by police outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office.
A health-care worker in Merritt, B.C., is raising concerns over a policy that she says discriminates against some wheelchair users in long-term care in the province.
As Uber rolls out a service to allow health care services rides to patients, it faces a new lawsuit alleging it does not provide enough wheelchair-accessible vehicles in major cities.
Governor Maura Healey hopes to tackle the staffing crisis plaguing social service care providers with a big investment in the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The office’s proposed ...
For a quarter of a century, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard, has heard the same story during research with hundreds of people who have disabilities: Health care that was ...
These gaps in health care access mean there’s high demand for items as small and inexpensive as bandages, to large pricier items like motorized wheelchairs, which can cost anywhere between ...
Each time Krista Sweet visits Belize to help train health-care workers and fit children with wheelchairs and walkers, she's reminded of how people with few material assets can survive. Sweet, a ...
In 2003, Michael Graves had just returned home from a business trip to Germany and Switzerland. He wasn’t feeling well and told colleagues at his architectural firm that he was leaving early to ...
Michaela Ramm covers health care for the Des Moines Register. She can be reached at [email protected] , at (319) 339-7354 or on Twitter at @Michaela_Ramm .
David Hasselhoff shared his latest health setback after he was photographed being pushed in a wheelchair through Los Angeles International Airport. The “Baywatch” star was seen limping through ...