PHOENIX, Ariz. - Studies estimate about 60% of Arizona children do not have regular access to primary health care, but a new grant program is looking to change that. The Valle del Sol Community Health group is planning a fleet of mobile medical teams to visit underserved communities across central Arizona to provide care to adolescent and teenage children. .
By Liese Klein
Surgical Care Affiliates, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division, filed a certificate of need with the state late last year to take a controlling interest in the Bloomfield facility, along with another bid to take control of a Stamford ambulatory surgical center.
Surgical Care Affiliates took over management of the Bloomfield center in December, adding to its roster of eight other surgical facilities across the state. Optum has also made recent moves to add to its portfolio of Connecticut physician practices, which includes one of the state’s largest groups, ProHealth Physicians.
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Bloomfield Ambulatory Surgery Center is located at 580 Cottage Grove Road (shown above) in Bloomfield.
This week, our reporters also spent some time looking at the potential future of biotech.
Andrew Dunn pinpointed 5 takeaways from Walter Isaacson s best-selling book on Jennifer Doudna, the pioneering scientist who won a Nobel Prize for discovering CRISPR including what ethical questions now face the cutting-edge gene-editing tool.
Meanwhile, Patricia Kelly Yeo took a closer look at the plans Moderna s laid out to develop an HIV vaccine.
After the success of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine, it s possible the biotech could chart a new path toward a vaccine that s eluded researches for decades.
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UnitedHealth Group wants to make providing healthcare its next $100 billion business.
OptumHealth CEO Wyatt Decker told Insider it would get there by changing how doctors get paid.
And it s launching nationwide virtual care, which can help it steer patients to more services.
UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of the nation s biggest health insurer, first waded into the business of providing care 15 years ago when it bought a medical practice in Nevada.
Since then, its OptumCare business has grown into a health system 56,000 doctors strong, serving patients at more than 1,600 clinics across most of the US. It plans to bring at least 4,000 more doctors into its ranks by the end of this year.
The product, called Optum Virtual Care, is aimed at integrating in-person care, telehealth, home care and behavioral care, company leaders said on an earnings call this past week.