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Health Care Briefs
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Business New Haven
10/19/1998
By: BNH
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Two for the Show
The East Shore Health District and the Visiting Nurse Association have been awarded a $12,500 grant by the state's Department of Public Health. This money will be used for programs created to reduce the risk of premature death and disability from cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes. Only one dozen of these grants was awarded. The East Shore Health District offers full-time public health services to almost 70,000 people including environmental health and communicable disease control. The Visiting Nurse Association provides home visits to 110,000 people a year and is a non-profit, community supported organization.
This Just In...
J&H Marsh & McLennan will be periodically publishing The EBS Bulletin in order to keep employee benefit news up to date. The newsletter will offer important information highlights, summaries of compliance issues and will be sent in addition to the Leading Edge series, which provides information on issues impacting business.
A Cut Above
NEW HAVEN - The Yale-New Haven Gamma Knife Center has recently opened in New Haven. This is the only gamma knife facility in the state and one of 40 in the country. The gamma knife is a technique called stereotactic radiosurgery which targets and destroys abnormalities in the brain by using focused beams of low-level gamma rays. Unlike radiation therapy, this treatment can be administered all at one time in order to eliminate a tumor or a blood-vessel malformation. This procedure is not experimental and is incredibly accurate. It was developed 30 years ago by Professor Lars Leksell in Sweden. More than 80,000 patients have undergone this procedure with a mortality rate to date of zero. Gamma knife surgery foregoes the risks and costs of conventional neurosurgery because it is done under local anesthesia and mild sedation, and the brain tissue around the abnormality is unaffected by the treatment. Therefore, post-operative complications such as hemorrhage and infection are eliminated. This procedure is being used to treat tumors, arteriovenous malformations, trigeminal neuralgia and is also being used as an investigational tool for treating epilepsy. The facility at Yale-New Haven Hospital is the only one in New England to use the latest gamma knife tool.
Mini interns Take to the Halls
NEW HAVEN - On October 28, the New Haven County Medical Association (NHCMA) will conduct its 1998 Mini-Internship Program. This program encourages communication between doctors and community leaders (interns) and seeks to demonstrate the problems and concerns doctors face in providing health care to a community. It also allows the interns to see the health-care delivery system in progress. Physicians and hospitals throughout Connecticut will participate in this program. According to Isaac Goodrich, M.D., the NHCMA's president, “The NHCMA Mini-Internship Program will help depict the many facets of a physician's day through first-hand experience for interns.”
Study Shows Health Care Earnings Continue To Grow Nationally
ATLANTA, Ga. - According to the second quarter 1998 analysis released recently by WDI Healthcare Markets Group/KPMG Peat Marwick LLP's Health Care Transaction Services, the health-care and life sciences industry's adjusted earnings growth was 11.5 percent and its revenue growth was 14.3 percent annually. The report analyzed the performance of public health care in these industry sectors: providers and services, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and medical devices and supply firms. The provider and services sectors, comprising more than 250 public companies, reported an adjusted earnings growth of 24.3 percent and a revenue gain of 24.5 percent. The bio-pharmaceutical sector, with more than 345 public companies, reported an adjusted earnings growth of 18.8 percent and a revenue gain of 11.9 percent. Medical devices and supplies sectors, consisting of more than 275 public companies, reported an adjusted earnings growth of 14.5 percent and a revenue gain of 9.5 percent.
Seminars & Meetings
WEST HAVEN - On October 20, Allied Health Rehabilitation will be sponsoring an educational seminar called “Prevention of Injuries to the Neck and Arm.” This seminar will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m at Allied's office on 636 Campbell Avenue in West Haven. The speaker will be Glen Gitterman, and refreshments will be served. All are welcome.
WEST HARTFORD - The Barney School of Business & Public Administration at the University of Hartford and Medmax Ventures will co-sponsor a day-long seminar called “Getting Started as an Entrepreneur in Health Care & Insurance.” The seminar is geared toward entrepreneurs interested in the health care and insurance industries. It will take place November 4 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University's Gray Conference Center, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. This seminar is designed for physicians, insurance managers and biomedical engineers who are interested in topics such as the accounting, legal and marketing aspects of starting a new business, building a management team and thinking like an entrepreneur.
FAIRFIELD - The Fairfield County Medical Association will host a series of sessions called “Meet the Candidates.” U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and state senatorial candidates will answer questions, discuss their views on health-care issues and listen to comments from association members. The sessions will be held at the following places on these dates:
October 20 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Memorial Room of the Fairfield Public Library
October 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Creasy Auditorium at Danbury Hospital
WALLINGFORD - The Connecticut Hospital Association will hold its third annual “Integration Symposium” on October 27 from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The event will outline opportunities for partnering of HMOs and providers. It will take place at the CHA offices, 110 Barnes Road, Wallingford. Speakers will include Stephen Arnsten, vice president of provider relations for Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, and Paul Bluestein, senior vice president of ConnectiCare in Farmington.
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