From consumer wellness apps to clinical decision-making tools to care operations, digital technologies are transforming today's healthcare landscape.
And the commissioner of the state's Department of Health, which licenses and monitors adult day care operations, asserts that the department is moving aggressively to close loopholes in the statewide program to prevent another case like Parkshore from happening.
She did not have a licensed day care operation, according to Edward Borges, a spokesman for the State Office of Children and Family Services.
Furthermore, running two very different businesses — an office-space firm and a day care operation — can be tricky, he said.
We learned more about the organizational structures required to implement change across a large, integrated, health care operation.
The child welfare commissioner, Nicholas Scoppetta, said he left the job that year believing that his office would soon close the agency's foster care operation.
Mr. Love is the son of Sandra Love, a vice president at the health care operation, who was one of the seven charged by the attorney general's office.
Ms. Khan's modest day care operation may have fit that description, said Jessica L. Scaperotti, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which is investigating the child's death.
But Mr. Scoppetta said the downsizing of the city's direct-care operation made sense in light of the steep decline of the city's foster care population over the last decade, to about 30,000 from a 1991 peak of 49,100.
The move signals Glaxo's commitment to its consumer health care operation, despite calls by some investors for it to spin the unit off to focus on prescription treatments.
