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Better Living Through Better Design

The Health Care Blog

Babcock Ranch was designed not just to withstand hurricanes but also: …to offer residents multiple ways to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Back in 2017 he wrote about how it was important to “build health into the OS of our daily lives.” Decisions. . As the Building H website warns: .

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Home-like respite stay is new alternative to psychiatric hospitalization in Raleigh

NC Health News

By Taylor Knopf A new kind of mental health service is available in Wake County, and it offers a voluntary alternative to hospitalization for people experiencing mental distress. Its called a peer-run respite house; its the first of its kind in the Triangle area and only the third to open in North Carolina.

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10 Ways an ACA Repeal Could Impact Our Health

Black Health Matters

Its goal is to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance, expand Medicaid coverage, and decrease the number of uninsured Americans. Between 2017 and 2024, the number of states with Medicaid expansion went from 32 to 41. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” was enacted in 2010 and implemented in 2014.