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San Jose health care workers demand better hospital staffing

May 27, 2022August 21, 2023 Sharika Soukup

Registered nurses and health care workers in San Jose are demanding a hospital owner address staffing shortages and dangerous working conditions. Approximately 145 members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, dressed in red shirts and armed with picket signs, took to the sidewalks Tuesday in front of the Good Samaritan Hospital. Chants of “Nurses…

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Roger Maris All-Star Week offers free youth sports clinics

May 26, 2022 Sharika Soukup

May 24, 2022 Contact:Nathan AamodtSanford Health Media Relations(701) 200-6080/[email protected] FARGO, N.D. – Roger Maris All-Star Week will feature multiple youth sports clinics for children ages 5 to 12. The clinics are free to attend and will be conducted by local, high school and collegiate coaches. Parents can sign their children up for the free clinics…

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With free health clinic, student brings health care to Rhode Island’s underserved | News

May 24, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Akosua Dankwah, DrPH ’22, is applying what she’s learned to help the WTL Health Clinic expand its mission. May 9, 2022—On the day a ribbon was cut to mark the opening of the free WTL Health Clinic in its new Pawtucket, Rhode Island, location in November 2019, Akosua Dankwah held half of the ceremonial oversized…

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Where to find free and low cost dental care in Kansas City

May 23, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Dental assistant Penny Gray cleans the teeth of Aleeah Mosley, 6, at the Red Bird Dental Clinic in Leslie County, Ky., Friday, June 19, 2020. Silas Walker Lexington Herald-Leader Dental health is a window into the rest of your body’s health. Staying updated on your oral care is essential to your overall health. In some…

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Many Older Women Have Active Sex Lives, But Menopause Can Interfere – Consumer Health News

May 22, 2022 Sharika Soukup

WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Many women remain sexually active into their 70s, but for others, menopause symptoms and chronic health issues get in the way. That’s among the findings from the latest University of Michigan Poll on Healthy Aging, which surveyed more than 1,200 U.S. women ages 50 to 80. Overall, 43%…

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H-E-B grows health care clinic operation

May 21, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Texas grocer H-E-B is expanding in the retail health care arena with the launch of more H-E-B Wellness Primary Care clinics. San Antonio-based H-E-B yesterday officially opened a 4,000-square-foot H-E-B Wellness clinic at 8601 South Congress Ave. #110 in Austin. That followed the May 5 opening of an H-E-B Wellness clinic at 19368 Ronald Reagan…

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Linn County clinic offers treatment for hepatitis C

May 20, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The front of the Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris Public Health and Child and Youth Development Services building is seen in Cedar Rapids. (The Gazette) CEDAR RAPIDS — Linn County Public Health is now offering treatment for hepatitis C in its clinic, an unusual step for a county public health department in Iowa as local…

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Bell County, TX

May 16, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Bell County Earns National Achievement Award for Indigent Health Program Washington, D.C. – The Bell County Indigent Health Care Collaborative has been recognized with an Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo). The awards honor innovative, effective county government programs that strengthen services for residents. NACo recognized the Bell County Indigent Health Care…