gift of life

Gift of Life Donor program and Bayhealth

Betsy PriceHealth, Headlines

Each day, 17 people in the United States die while waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. Bayhealth is pleased to join Gift of Life Donor Program to promote organ and tissue donation. Gift of Life is encouraging individuals to register to become an organ, tissue and cornea donor, which is as easy as visiting donors1.org. “Transplantation is one of the …

lung cancer

Delaware to offer statewide lung cancer screening Saturday

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Culture

Delaware on Saturday, Nov. 12, will become the first to offer statewide lung cancer screening, using five facilities up and down the state. The day was chosen deliberately to remove barriers for people who can’t make it Monday through Friday because they work, or have to rely on someone who does. It also coincides with the American Cancer Society’s National …

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Here’s how Del. hospitals focus on underserved communities

Noah ZuckerHeadlines, Health

TidalHealth Nanticoke purchased mobile medical vans to take healthcare services to hard-to-reach communities. Beebe Healthcare started a monkeypox vaccination program for the LGBTQ+ community at the beach. ChristianaCare created a new wellness and psychotherapy center for transgender patients. These are just a few of the initiatives highlighted in the Delaware Healthcare Association’s “Health Equity Report,” which details ways state hospitals …

Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition

Breast Cancer fundraisers spread through September, October

Terry RogersCulture

  Although October is recognized as breast cancer awareness month, community partnership breast cancer awareness events and fundraisers begin to take place in September. The cooler fall weather provides a great opportunity for the community to plan or support a DBCC partnership. Partnership events help our organization support survivors in our state who have, and who are currently battling breast …

Bayhealth to require vaccines for all staff

Terry RogersHealth

by Terry Rogers     Bayhealth is now requiring all employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine under new federal regulations As many hospitals began requiring all staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19, Bayhealth was one of the few healthcare systems who allowed their staff to either be vaccinated or submit to weekly tests under the recommended CDC guidelines. With a …

ChristianaCare to require staff vaccinations; only system so far to do it

Charlie MegginsonBusiness, Headlines, Health

Christiana Care will require all employees to be vaccinated. Delaware’s largest healthcare network has provided employees an ultimatum: be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be fired.  ChristianaCare, which is also the state’s largest private employer, operates hospitals in Newark, Wilmington and Elkton, Maryland, as well as smaller practices throughout Delaware and Pennsylvania.  The company will require all employees, residents, students, contracted …

Christiana Care, Bayhealth, Blue Cross join to offer Medicare product

Betsy PriceBusiness, Headlines

Two Delaware hospital systems and an insurance company plan to offer a Medicare Advantage insurance plan. Photo by Roger Brown/Pexels   Two Delaware healthcare systems and an insurance company plan to form a Medicare Advantage product together to sell in 2022. ChristianaCare, which dominates health care in Delaware and particularly New Castle County, Bayhealth, which offers services primarily in Kent …

Molding future surgeons: Bayhealth launches third residency program

Betsy PriceCulture

Pictured right to left are Program Director Bradford Mitchell, MD, FACS, ECNU, and Program Coordinator Katherine Burklew for Bayhealth’s General Surgery Residency Program. The General Surgery Residency Program is the third of Bayhealth’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs to launch and has recently earned accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). General Surgery Program Director Bradford Mitchell, …