More than 400 McLaren St. Luke’s staff members plan to join Mercy Health as St. Luke’s operations come to a close. The announcement of employee’s signed commitment letters comes as Mercy works to get buy St. Luke’s facilities, land and physical assets.
The 300-bed McLaren St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio, near Toledo, is set to stop accepting patients on May 8, and began employee separations March 15, according to a federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the state of Ohio.
AARP Iowa is calling on the Legislature to cap insulin prices for people on state-regulated health-insurance plans that currently have no limits on the drug. Nearly a quarter-million Iowans have been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, and depend on daily doses of insulin. The Biden administration s Inflation Reduction Act capped insulin costs at $35 per month for people on Medicare, but only for those who buy "Part D" plans that help cover drug costs. .