Hochul’s pro-union home care program overhaul promises $500M in savings but it’s off to a rocky start
Gov. Kathy Hochul has pledged to save a whopping $500 million with an overhaul of the controversial home care program, but is dragging its feet with a slow and erratic rollout. Hochul and her top advisers moved to consolidate about 700 companies into one hand-picked company to care for elderly relatives in a budget deal […]
Adams’ ex-aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin brags that NYC DOC will ‘take care of her’
Mayor Eric Adams' top adviser boasted to investigators that the New York City Department of Corrections “takes care of me.” A former aide is staring down the barrel of a series of corruption charges, court documents reveal. Ingrid Lewis Martin is accused of arranging favors with two Big Apple hoteliers in exchange for more than […]
The Guardian view on corridor care: the normalisation of crisis is shocking | Editorial
TTestimony from nurses about the overwhelming pressure on A&E departments across the UK has understandably shocked the public and Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The worrying but unavoidable conclusion of a new report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is that 'corridor care', known as treatment given in hallways and other inappropriate locations, is increasing […]
Millions of people are shut out of British society. The reason: our hidden social care crisis | John Harris
IAs a national conversation, our social care crisis tends to be reduced to a small number of factors, so familiar that it now feels like a cliché. Almost all of these are centered around older people, with an aging population putting pressure on bankrupt local councils and people having to sell their homes to pay […]
The week in theatre: Oliver!; The Devil May Care review – consider yourself entertained | Theatre
○Ompapapa! There's plenty of it, with just enough emphasis on Fagin as surrogate dad to suggest puns in this loudest of numbers. Oliver! After all, this is a show about families lost, restored, and invented. However, there is a lot of darkness swirling around there. London fog and rain falling outside the workhouse. The song, […]
UnitedHealth tops profit forecasts but medical costs linger for health care giant – The Associated Press
UnitedHealth posted better-than-expected profits in the final quarter of 2024, but persistent rises in medical costs and care utilization surprised Wall Street. The healthcare giant's shares fell on Thursday after it released its first post-war financial report. brazen shooting Comments by one of the company's executives outside a New York City hotel struck a nerve […]
Renowned brain imaging specialist condemns mental health care as ‘only medical specialty that never looks at the organ it treats’
If you visit your cardiologist complaining of chest pain, your doctor may order a heart CT scan. If you go to your orthopedic surgeon after turning your ankle, you'll probably be in the x-ray room within minutes of arriving. Chronic headache? CAT scan. Knee trouble? MRI. Pregnancy complications? Ultrasound. In almost every medical scenario, doctors […]
I have a two foot height gap with my boyfriend — people stare but we are happy and don’t care
A 3-foot-8-year-old woman with dwarfism is mistaken for her boyfriend's 5-foot-8 sister, but says she doesn't care what other people say. Caitlin Hellyer, 23, has achondroplasia dwarfism, a bone growth disorder caused by a genetic mutation in the arms and legs. She says she gets attention when she goes out with her boyfriend Guy Pritchard, […]
Charities forced to ‘evict’ adults in their care to stay solvent, survey finds | Charities
The charity, which provides specialist care to thousands of vulnerable adults with learning disabilities and severe autism, is trying to help residents avoid bankruptcy due to higher taxes, higher wages and cuts to local authority funding. It is now necessary to “evict'' the people. Nonprofit providers, many of whom are preparing to cut services, close […]
Diversity Push Hasn’t Hurt Our Ability to Respond, First Priority Is Taking Care of Community
In an interview with “CBS Evening News” conducted Thursday and published Friday, LAFD Commissioner Christine Crowley said diversity efforts have hurt the department's ability to respond to emergencies like recent fires. He denied that he was doing so and said: It's about making sure we can take care of the communities we're sworn to care […]