SRMC, Eastpointe in dispute over reimbursements for mental health
The Robesonian
“Southeastern Health initiated good-faith discussions with Eastpointe MCO in early May 2014 to negotiate contract renewals for inpatient psychiatric services,” Thomas Johnson, Southeastern Health's chief financial officer, said in a statement. “To date ...
Fit City Success: NET Health scores Fit Friendly workplace award
Tyler Morning Telegraph
An East Texas organization earns the American Heart Association's Platinum Award for Fit Friendly worksites. The recognition is for a company or school's commitment to its employees' health. The Northeast Texas Public Health District provides healthy ...
Op-ed: Budget woes put public health at risk in Utah
Salt Lake Tribune
Across the United States, people are limiting tobacco use, eating healthier and becoming more physically active, all with the support of public health programs. Our public health system ensures that the water we drink, food we eat and air we breathe ...
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Public Health District Hosts First EPHC Clinic, Provides Health Assistance
Big Country Homepage
The Abilene-Taylor County Public Health District is now offering Expanded Primary Health Care (EPHC) for women with no health insurance or Medicaid. On Saturday, they held their first open clinic event to screen women for the program. Those who ...
Free health clinic stresses importance of annual check-upsKTXS
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Finding Ways To Stay Healthy At The 10TV Health And Fitness Expo
10TV
10TV's 5th annual Health and Fitness Expo kicked off Saturday with another round of visitors hoping to discover new ways to stay healthy. With programs in hand and empty bags ready for free giveaways, Columbus resident Faye Oney and Dublin resident ...
Health expo teaches community about becoming and staying fitValley morning Star
Electronic records help connect mental, physical health
Topeka Capital Journal
Coordinating medical care means exchanging data, and sharing data sometimes means a need for new technology. Before Kansas rolled out its practice of making mental health clinics into “health homes” for people with mental illnesses and chronic ...
Effort To Improve Health In Impoverished North End Starts In The ER
Hartford Courant
The small program is trying to address a persistent problem that may hold the key to holding down runaway health care costs, not just here but across the country: how to keep people, especially in poorer neighborhoods, from using emergency rooms like ...
Adirondack Health Institute wins grant funding
Plattsburgh Press Republican
The Health Institute and its partners comprise one of 42 entities in the state to receive the grant and will use the money to develop a comprehensive health-care integration plan for better managing population health in Warren, Washington, Saratoga ...
Health Scan: Mediterranean diet may have minuses
Jerusalem Post
While the famed Mediterranean diet may have broad health benefits, its impact on cognitive decline differs among race-specific populations, according to a new study published by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers in the Journal of Gerontology.
Indiana state employee health benefits lag
Palladium-Item
WASHINGTON – Health plans for Indiana state employees are less generous, have higher premiums and require workers to pay a larger share of the premiums compared to the average for state workers across the nation, a new report shows. Some of the ...
Study: Vermont state workers pay more in health care premiumsBrattleboro Reformer