Planned closure of mental health beds on hold
Sault Area Hospital will hold off on the long-planned closure of seven mental health beds, possibly for good. Earlier this year, SAH officials submitted a proposal to the North East Local Health Integration Network proposing that the 30 spaces for short-term mental health care be maintained.[...]
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Health safety-net groups get $1 million
Record-breaking numbers of uninsured patients have inspired a $1,025,000 donation from the Virginia Health Care Foundation to 14 health safety-net organizations across the state. The projects will deliver basic medical, dental, and mental-health services for uninsured Virginians;
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Obama on the brink of a health care reinvention
Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president’s pen. Such a moment now seems near.
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Planets decide health regime for India’s rich and the famous
Millennia ago, Indian astrologers and soothsayers had perfected the art or science of looking into your past and peering into your future through a complex set of calculations based on planetary movements.
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10 — after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware denied coverage three times for a stress test that would have revealed severe arterial blockage — doctors …
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10 — after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware denied coverage three times for a stress test that would have revealed severe arterial blockage — doctors …
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10 — after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware denied coverage three times for a stress test that would have revealed severe arterial blockage — doctors …
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Earlier this month, mental health advocates formally asked commissioners to put a levy on the June ballot. John Felton, chief operating officer for …
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For some Waco area patients, wait for government’s hand in health care comes too late
Two local women who died while waiting for liver transplants last year are examples of the life-and-death consequences that can be result from a rule that requires disabled people to wait two years before getting federally funded health care.
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Former mental health center building has options
Interest in using the former Brown County Mental Health Center as a veterans resource center is increasing.
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