All tag results for 'healthcare'

Olivia Wilde is doing some major good!!

Most folks would just stop at doing the minimum of help for those less fortunate around the world, but not Olivia!

Even though she's already a board member for the Artists for Peace and Justice organization, which provides education and health services in Haiti, she wants to work closely with Jeffrey Sachs, the director of research group The Earth Institute, to improve healthcare in Africa!

Here's what she says:

Tags: activism, africa, charity, haiti, healthcare, inspiration, olivia wilde

CNN is ready to show us all Escape Fire: The Fight To Rescue American Healthcare, because they just snagged the TV rights to the two-hour documentary!

Shown at 2012's Sundance Film Festival, it takes a look at the flaws and failings of the nation's healthcare system. It sounds pretty important, because it's all political and healthcare-y and stuff, so you should probably set your calendars (or DVRs) for March 10th at 8pm! LOLz!

Here's what the president, Jeff Zucker, had to say:

Tags: cnn films, documentary, escape fire, healthcare, tv rights

Two Christian chain stores are challenging Obamacare because it "violates their religious freedom."

They're talking about the part of Obamacare that requires employers to provide coverage for contraceptives.

So the chain stores wanted the supreme court to put a temporary hold on the law.

The supreme court said:

Tags: claims, decision, healthcare, legal, media, obama, obamacare, supreme court, women, womens health

Elizabeth Banks really loves Planned Parenthood!

She actually got her healthcare through Planned Parenthood after graduating

Tags: college, elizabeth banks, health, healthcare, insurance, planned parenthood, psa, sex

This is good news!

Chad Terhune has joined the LA Times as the newest healthcare reporter!

Chad's got the credentials to get the job done, that's for sure: he's held positions at Businessweek and SmartMoney. And did we mention that he also spent nearly a decade at the Wall Street Journal covering healthcare??

Perfect fit!

We definitely feel like Chad will pull his weight and get some serious news to us — can't wait to start reading him!

Fab!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: business, chad terhune, good news, health, healthcare, la times, men, money, perfect, report, reporter, serious, week, weight

This is such a cool program!

Thanks to Tony and Grammy Award-winning artist Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx is offering local independent artists health services in exchange for their creative services.

For every hour they perform or lead a creative activity at the hospital, artists who can't afford health insurance earn 40 "health credits", equal to $40, toward medical care.

Miranda,

Tags: artists, broadway, brooklyn, grammy, healthcare, hospital, in the heights, insurance, lin-manuel miranda, lincoln medical and mental health center, new york city, nyc, the bronx, tony

Right on!

Geisinger Health System, a hospital in Pennsylvania, has announced it will no longer hire smokers and require employees to pass a nicotine test.

This will probably upset cigarette smokers, but let's be honest, you shouldn't be working in healthcare if you don't care about your own health!

A spokeswoman for the hospital explained their decision by saying:

"Not only do we want to practice what we preach, but we also want our employees to feel healthy, we want our patients and visitors to feel that they are in a healthy environment. So it's an overall commitment to the well-being of all those people."

It sounds like a radical idea, but this kind of screening is not a new concept. In fact, there are 19 states that currently allow employers to do the same thing.

If we were in the business of keeping people healthy and living, we certainly would not want to hire someone who voluntarily breaths in dangerous chemicals that can eventually kill them!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: chemicals, cigarette, employee, geisinger health system, healthcare, hire, hospital, medical field, nicotine, pennsylvania, screening, smokers