Alignment Healthcare, an Orange-based company that offers HMO plans to California residents, has added PrimeCare Medical Network in the Inland Empire to its Medicare Advantage Provider Network. That arrangement means anyone enrolled in Medicare Advantage will have access to more than 300 primary care physicians and 1,300 specialists in Riverside …
Read More »Hospitals boost local economy
Two San Bernardino hospitals are claiming to have a major impact on the local economy. Community Hospital of San Bernardino and St. Bernardine Medical Center – both part of Dignity Health Inland Empire – have an annual impact of more than $1.4 billion, according to a statement. Both hospitals combined …
Read More »Affordable Care Act has helped the Inland Empire
That was the consensus reached at a symposium at Claremont Graduate University, although participants agreed the federal health care program – better known as Obamacare – is far from perfect. The Affordable Care Act has been a boon to the Inland Empire by getting more people health care insurance while …
Read More »Hospital gets award for women’s care
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center has been recognized for its efforts in women’s healthcare. Healthgrades, which provides information about physicians, hospitals and health care providers throughout the United States, awarded Pomona Valley its Women’s Care Five Star Excellence Awards for outstanding work in obstetrics and gynecology, gynecological surgery and labor …
Read More »Medical center adds to emergency care
Loma Linda University Medical Center has expanded its emergency care department. The facility added five treatment rooms last month, in part because emergency visits there have gone up every year since 2011, according to a statement on the medical center’s website. The new rooms, called flex care spaces, will allow …
Read More »On The Move
Dr. Samar Nahas has been named chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at UC Riverside’s School of Medicine. Nahas, who was previously health division director of gynecologic oncology, took over her new position July 1, according to a report on UCR Today, an online publication affiliated with the …
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