THOMAS SHRETT, JOHN ALLEN CASH, KYLE IVERSON I have a small IT computer services company that has been running for a few months, but a number of employees are asking for health insurance. Our office is in American Canyon and employees live in the surrounding area with one in Utah. First: Am I liable to …
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MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — It’s a growing pain we’ve heard time and time again: The Treasure Coast’s health care system is buckling under the weight of an influx of population. Many of you have come to WPTV saying that there are not enough medical providers to go around with the growing population. Census The Port …
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The new technology, which was created at the University of Turku and developed by the company CardioSignal, uses a smartphone to analyze the movement of the heart and detect heart failure. Five organizations from Finland and the USA participated in the study. Heart failure is a condition affecting tens of millions of people worldwide in …
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This record in Non-profit magazine project is part of a series of articles on how health care professionals in Michigan are responding to the state’s health care workforce shortage. This is possible with funding from Michigan Health Foundation. According to the Center for Bipartisan Policy, there has been a shortage of direct care workers in …
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An estimated 130,000 Montanans, including 36,000 children, have lost their Medicaid or Healthy Montana Kids health insurance coverage as of April 2023. It’s part of a national spike in enrollment declines, a “rollout” that KFF Health News called the “most the major upheaval in the 58-year history of the state’s health insurance program for low-income …
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The first few years of the Formerly Incarcerated Transitions (FIT) wellness program were limited to helping people in Wake County with mental illness who had recently been released from state prison. Evan Ashkin, a family physician at UNC Health who helped found the program in 2017, said FIT Wellness has been able to serve 45 …
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to declare a public health emergency over the state’s opioid epidemic. Although the governor has often spoken of her commitment to addressing the skyrocketing overdose deaths, she has yet to declare a state of emergency, which would open new avenues to combat the …
Florida plans to speed up critical road projects Florida will accelerate its road projects that are poised to be completed 10 to 20 years ahead of schedule. The projects are spread across the state, with one project already at its core in South Florida, while projects in West Florida and the Panhandle are also set …
A new UAB study sheds light on the pandemic’s impact on the mental health of parents with school-age children. Mieke Beth Thomeer, Ph.D. Photo: Lexi CoonFamily dynamics are critical to mental well-being, and this role has become more prominent during the COVID-19 pandemic as families have had to stay together longer than usual. A recent …
As insurance company stocks fell 6-12% on Tuesday in response to the Biden administration’s Medicare Advantage announcement, one health care activist noted that the US government was not bowing to pressure from a “greedy” industry. “The private insurance industry is used to getting ahead of itself, but this year we got ahead of them,” said …
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