Tag: care

What Happens if You Don’t Use Long-Term Care Insurance as a Senior?

June 2, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Long Term Care Insurance People who have traditional long-term care insurance get no benefit from the coverage if they die without ever needing long-term care. However, some kinds of long-term care insurance let a surviving spouse or partner use unused benefits. Others provide for partial or full return of the premium if the original policyholder…

Treatment

Judge rules in favor of motion to reveal identities of health care workers suing state

June 2, 2022 Sharika Soukup

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that nine plaintiffs who sued Gov. Janet Mills over Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers cannot do so anonymously. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Jon D. Levy’s 13-page ruling requires the anonymous plaintiffs to file an amended complaint – containing their names – by June 7. The ruling…

Medical Supplies

NC Senate Health Care Committee meets to discuss Medicaid expansion bill :: WRAL.com

May 30, 2022 Sharika Soukup

the House bill. That’s right. It’s amendment and this is for discussion only today you all have had the opportunity to ask a lot of questions and then we’ll hear some from the audience. Thank you Senator. Good morning. Um and thank you Senator brit and Senator Bergen for joining with me in this effort…

Medical Supplies

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…

Health, Insurance, Medical Supplies

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…

Insurance

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…

Insurance

Parents petition for higher child care wages, family assistance

May 21, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Senator Patty Murray, along with Senator Tim Kaine, are proposing funding to expand child care access amid staffing shortages and rising costs. WASHINGTON — Eight moms with children enrolled in Head Start programs in Tacoma, Seattle, Olympia and Federal Way traveled to Washington, D.C. this week to share their experiences and petition for help from the…

Healthy Parenting

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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