This NEW OUTDOOR ICU rooftop garden may change how hospitals think about critical care recovery forever.
Would you want an outdoor ICU space at your hospital?
Gives critically ill patients something many haven’t experienced in months: fresh air, sunlight, and a connection to the outdoors.
“I forgot what it feels like to be outside.”
After 2 months in the ICU, a 29-year-old patient was taken onto the UK’s new rooftop intensive care garden—and became emotional experiencing fresh air and sunlight again.
This may be the future of critical care.
Could nature help reduce delirium, anxiety, stress, and even accelerate recovery?
As ICU clinicians, we spend enormous effort optimizing medications, ventilation, nutrition, mobility, and technology. Perhaps we should also be optimizing access to sunlight, fresh air, and the healing power of nature.
Would you want access to an outdoor healing space if you were recovering in the ICU?
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King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going
First step is to require any hospitals that enjoy Non Profit Tax Benefits, to publish monthly all of their actual General Ledger transactions and invoices.
You are non profit. You are being subsidized and often funded by taxpayers. We are your stakeholders, along with patients. There ain't a damn economic thing that you can't show.
And no, Medicare Cost Reports are not comprehensive accounting reports.. They are pretty much useless for this.
Second step is to make all NDAs and Confidentiality Agreements for any financial healthcare agreement, illegal
It's beyond insane that US Senators, and POTUS, can't see what the federal government is paying for medications being provided through TriCare.
With these sources of data, then, and pretty much only then, could proponents of M4A begin to figure out a plan
On Friday, the Governor of Tennessee signed the FAIR Rx Act, prohibiting PBMs from owning pharmacies in the state!
CVS spent millions to kill this bill. Tennessee is sending a clear message that they won't be pushed around by Big Medicine lobbyists.
Other states should follow.
A pharmaceutical executive confirmed under Senate questioning that his company is profitable selling Ozempic in Paris for under $100. Americans pay $1,100 for the same injection. The senator's question wasn't about margins or R&D — it was one question with a yes or no answer, and the executive gave it on the record. Everything the pharmaceutical industry says about why American drug prices need to be this high has to coexist with that answer, and coexistence gets harder the more people hear about it.
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