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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

The Fund is a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health and health equity by connecting leaders with evidence and sound experience. Before joining the Fund in 2013, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner.

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Too costly to keep, but too important to lose. Solving paradox of NC rural women’s health services

NC Health News

Some states have initiatives requiring insurance companies to better support rural hospitals, but North Carolina hasnt done this so far. Workforce solutions for hospitals The dwindling rural health workforce is another urgent problem in need of a solution. And keep them trained.

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Wilson County installs naloxone kiosks to fight opioid overdose deaths

NC Health News

More than 220 lives were lost to overdose in Wilson County from 2013 to 2023, according to data from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. They were purchased with funds from a $2.9

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Three rural NC counties map out paths to reducing overdose deaths

NC Health News

A total of 182 overdose deaths were linked to the county, which is home to about 48,800 people, from 2013 to 2023. The county saw a record 32 fatal overdoses, a nearly threefold increase from the 11 deaths reported a decade earlier. Officials are still tallying deaths from 2024. percent.

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A Program To Close Insurance Gaps for Native Americans Has Gone Largely Unused

KFF Health News

Because sponsorship in some tribes isn’t limited to enrolled tribal citizens, it can help the whole community, said Jim Roberts, senior executive liaison for intergovernmental affairs with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona.

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Si Trump recorta fondos, millones de personas en nueve estados podrían perder Medicaid

KFF Health News

Por ejemplo, Michigan aprobó una ley de activación como parte de su expansión de Medicaid en 2013, cuando el estado estaba bajo el control de un gobernador y una legislatura republicanas. El año pasado, con el gobierno controlado por los demócratas, el estado eliminó esa cláusula.

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Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

NC Health News

CPP data analysis showed that smaller labor and delivery units those with less than six birthing rooms were more vulnerable to complete closure in North Carolina than larger ones between 2013 and 2023. Those rural hospitals just dont have access to the economies of scale that suburban or urban ones do.