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New community health clinic in Elmira will provide preventative care

November 14, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Andrea Ogunwumi, executive director of the Elmira Economic Opportunity Program, in the new community health center. (Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo/WSKG) https://wskg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elmira-Community-Health-Web_mixdown.mp3 BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG) — The Elmira Economic Opportunity Program (EOP) will open a new community health clinic for residents of Chemung and Schuyler counties in April. The health center, located at 650 Baldwin St., will focus…

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Hackers Target Newfoundland’s Health Care System

November 14, 2021 Sharika Soukup

For many months now, the residents of Newfoundland and Labrador have had to put up with canceled or delayed medical procedures and appointments. For a long time — like people in the rest of Canada, and around the world — their predicament was due to the pandemic. But lately, the trouble has come from a…

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Open Door clinic provides health care for the homeless

November 9, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Nov. 6—HIGH POINT — A once-thriving free medical clinic that closed is back on its feet again, hoping to provide a shot in the arm for the underserved community in High Point. The clinic, offered weekly at Open Door Ministries, provides primary health care to anyone who needs it — including the general public —…

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We’ve Entered a New Era of Streaming Health Care. Now What?

November 8, 2021 Sharika Soukup

One way to minimize such delays is by cutting a path through the Internet, one that takes into account the traffic conditions up ahead. My company, Subspace, has built such a network using custom hardware and a proprietary fiber-optic backbone. And we’ve shown it doesn’t have to be complicated—users don’t have to do anything more…

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Arizona Privatized Prison Health Care to Save Money. But at What Cost?

November 5, 2021 Sharika Soukup

In 2017, Walter Jordan wrote a memo to a federal judge from the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. “Notice of Impending Death,” it said in a shaky hand. Jordan told the judge that Arizona corrections officials and Corizon Health, the state prison system’s private health care contractor at that time, delayed treating his cancer…

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Health care plagued by new supply chain shortages

November 3, 2021 Sharika Soukup

From medications to gloves to crutches, the strains of the global supply chain are hitting U.S. health care hard. Why it matters: Shortages of health care supplies can quickly jump from a nuisance to a life-or-death proposition. They indicate serious vulnerabilities in the U.S. health care supply chain. State of play: After seeing major supply…

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Florida could set record for Affordable Care Act insurance enrollment in 2022

November 2, 2021 Sharika Soukup

At times, it seemed like the Affordable Care Act was on life support during Donald Trump’s four years in the White House. The federal health insurance program was saved from being repealed by the defection of three Republican senators in a dramatic 2017 vote. That same year, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…

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Facing pandemic burnout, Washington state health care workers join growing call for more long-term staff support

November 1, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Treating COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit for the past 19 months often reminds Paul Fuller, a registered nurse in Wenatchee, of his time in the U.S. Army. Fuller began his nursing career as an Army medic and spent 14 months deployed to Iraq, he said Thursday evening in a panel with other nurses…

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