On behalf of South Shore Health, I want to reach out to our patients whose surgery was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you for your patience. Delaying your surgery was necessary while we cared for a large number of critically ill patients with COVID-19. For the past weeks this unprecedented surge consumed most of our…
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An Update for Patients Awaiting Surgery at South Shore Hospital
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Nurse Practitioner vs Physician Assistant: What’s the Difference?
A lot of people don’t know the difference between a physician assistant and a nurse practitioner. You might visit either type of healthcare provider in a physician’s office even though they are not physicians. Many people have primary care providers that are NPs or PAs. But what’s the difference? In basic terms, a nurse practitioner…
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Price Transparency in Healthcare
As we’ve talked about in our previous blogs on value-based healthcare and accountable care organizations, healthcare as an industry is facing big changes. To complete our trilogy on how the business of healthcare is changing for providers and patients, we are going to look at price transparency in healthcare. This is an issue that came…