Hundreds of hospitals across the U.S., including a number with sterling reputations for cutting-edge care, will be paid less by Medicare after the federal government pronounced that they had higher rates of infections and patient injuries than others.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday identified 786 hospitals that will receive lower payments for a year under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, a creation of the Affordable Care Act. The penalties are designed to encourage better care without taking the extreme step of tossing a hospital out of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which would drive most hospitals out of business.
On this day, 31 January 1957, 350 Jewish bagel bakers in New York City went on strike. At first, bagel truck drivers did not strike with them, however bakers slashed tires, hijacked trucks, stole keys and appealed to drivers to join them until they agreed.
They were joined on strike by 385 workers at the Pechter Baking Company.
The bakers remained out for 33 days until the city’s 34 bakeries agreed to improved pay and benefits for the strikers.
Pictured: an NYC baker around this time https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1338576512994162/?type=3
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark will be released on Blu-ray on April 28 via Arrow Video. This edition was issued in the UK last year but will now be available in the US and Canada. Sara Deck designed the cover art; the original poster is on the reverse side.
Cassandra
Peterson stars in the 1988 horror-comedy as her horror hostess alter
ego, Elvira, and
co-wrote the script with Sam Egan (The Outer Limits) and John Paragon
(Pee-wee’s Playhouse).
James Signorelli (Saturday Night Live) directs. W. Morgan Sheppard, Daniel Greene, Jeff Conaway, Susan
Kellermann, and Edie McClurg round out the cast.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark has been restored in 4K from the original film elements with the original uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio. Special features are listed below.
