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Nursing Homes Are Left in the Dark as More Utilities Cut Power to Prevent Wildfires
When powerful wind gusts created threatening wildfire conditions one day near Boulder, Colorado, the state’s largest utility cut power to 52,000 homes and businesses — including Frasier, an assisted living and skilled nursing…
Heat Rules for California Workers Would Also Help Keep Schoolchildren Cool
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Proposed rules to protect California workers from extreme heat would extend to schoolchildren, requiring school districts to find ways to keep classrooms cool.
If the standards are approved this month,…
Journalists Discuss Abortion Laws, Pollution, and Potential Changes to Obamacare Subsidies
KFF Health News senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the consequences of restrictive and unclear abortion laws on CBS’ “CBS Mornings” on June 4. Gounder also discussed a recent…
Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
A company that makes tests for lead poisoning has agreed to resolve criminal charges that it concealed for years a malfunction that resulted in inaccurately low results.
It’s the latest in a long-running saga involving…
Biden Wants Hospitals To Report Data on Gunshot Wounds
The Biden administration is enlisting America’s doctors to help combat gun violence.
About 160 health-care executives and officials have been invited to the White House today and Friday to promote public health solutions to…
White House Enlists Doctors and Hospitals To Combat Gun Violence
The White House is calling on hospital executives, doctors, and other health care leaders to take bolder steps to prevent gun violence by gathering more data about gunshot injuries and routinely counseling patients about safe use…
Wins at the Ballot Box for Abortion Rights Still Mean Court Battles for Access
Before Ohio voters amended their constitution last year to protect abortion rights, the state’s attorney general, an anti-abortion Republican, said that doing so would upend at least 10 state laws limiting abortions.
But…
California Becomes Latest State To Try Capping Health Care Spending
Bernard J. Wolfson
California’s Office of Health Care Affordability faces a herculean task in its plan to slow runaway health care spending.
The goal of the agency, established in 2022, is to make care more affordable and accessible…
Health Worker for a Nonprofit? The New Ban on Noncompete Contracts May Not Help You
Harris Meyer
Many physicians and nurses are happy about the Federal Trade Commission’s new rule banning the use of noncompete agreements in employment contracts. But they are disappointed that it may not protect those who work for…
End of Pandemic Internet Subsidies Threatens a Health Care Lifeline for Rural America
FORT HALL RESERVATION, Idaho — Myrna Broncho realized just how necessary an internet connection can be after she broke her leg.
In fall 2021, the 69-year-old climbed a ladder to the top of a shed in her pasture. The roof…