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Fighting Staff Shortages With Scholarships, California Bill Aims To Boost Mental Health Courts
A seemingly innocuous proposal to offer scholarships for mental health workers in California’s new court-ordered treatment program has sparked debate over whether the state should prioritize that program or tackle a wider labor…
Rural NC County Is Set To Reopen Its Shuttered Hospital With Help From a New Federal Program
Taylor Sisk
WILLIAMSTON, N.C. — On a mid-August morning, Christopher Harrison stood in front of the shuttered Martin General Hospital recalling the day a year earlier when he snapped pictures as workers covered the facility’s sign.…
Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move as State Laws Shift
Last month, Planned Parenthood Great Plains opened its newest clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., a city of about 21,000 people mere minutes from the borders of both Missouri and Oklahoma.
It’s the second new clinic the regional…
California Medicaid Ballot Measure Is Popular, Well Funded — And Perilous, Opponents Warn
The proponents of Proposition 35, a November ballot initiative that would create a dedicated stream of funding to provide health care for California’s low-income residents, have assembled an impressive coalition: doctors,…
Cyberattacks Plague the Health Industry. Critics Call Feds’ Response Feeble and Fractured.
Central Oregon Pathology Consultants has been in business for nearly 60 years, offering molecular testing and other diagnostic services east of the Cascade Range.
Beginning last winter, it operated for months without being…
These Alabama Workers Were Swamped by Medical Debt. Then Their Employer Stepped In.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Like most medical offices, the small suite of exam rooms at the PhiferCares Clinic fills daily with patients seeking help with bumps and bruises, sore throats, and stuffy noses.
But there’s an important…
Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move, as State Laws Keep Shifting
Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, unable to provide abortions in 2018, it shipped some of its equipment to states where abortion remained accessible.
Recovery chairs,…
Unpacking the FDA’s Non-Recall Recalls
When the Agriculture Department posted a recall of chicken nuggets that might be contaminated, it directed consumers to return them or throw the stuff away.
When the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that poorly…
Tennessee Tries To Rein In Ballad’s Hospital Monopoly After Years of Problems
Ballad Health, an Appalachian company with the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, may soon be required to improve its quality of care or face the possibility of being broken up.
Government documents…
Arkansas’ Governor Says Medicaid Extension for New Moms Isn’t Needed
Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription.
“The pharmacy told me I…