Missoula
Members of the local nurses' union rejected a proposal they say fails to adequately pay experienced and new nurses. The two sides have not yet set a date to return to the bargaining table.
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Commentary
People with disabilities are hearing the words ‘institutionalization’ and ‘Olmstead’ daily. This shift in the way policymakers openly discuss the segregation of people with disabilities naturally follows nationwide budget cuts to home and community-based services. If people with disabilities cannot get the services and supports they need to live independently in their homes and communities, […]
States Newsroom
When a Kentucky woman called an emergency department earlier this year, she wasn’t asking whether treatment was available. Through tears, she was asking whether anyone would judge her for needing it. She had been referred to the hospital for help managing opioid withdrawal but was afraid to walk through the doors. A peer support specialist […]
Nampa
A 73-year-old woman is dead from medical complications she suffered while evacuating a nursing home during the start of the Old Trails fire, her daughter said.
Commentary
For seven decades, the massive, neoclassical General Motors Building served as the headquarters of what at one time was the world’s largest industrial corporation. Its legendary 14th floor was widely known throughout Detroit as a plush suite of impenetrable executive offices where GM’s top brass decided what kind of cars and trucks much of America and the rest of the world could choose to drive. But the building that for generations was […]
Idaho
Months after one of Idaho’s largest health insurers asked the state for help with unusual billing practices by a North Idaho hospital, the insurer is still waiting for assistance. Blue Cross argues that Post Falls ER & Hospital is out-of-network for health insurers and instead relies heavily on a new arbitration process created by Congress. […]
Tennessee
A dozen small, rural Tennessee hospitals are at “immediate risk” for closure, potentially exacerbating a longstanding problem in a state with one of the highest hospital closure rates in the nation. The calculation, by The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, is drawn from examining multi-year hospital losses in institutions with limited assets. The […]
Minnesota
This article first appeared on KFF Health News. More than a million times a year, a U.S. surgeon slices open a knee, strips out worn cartilage, caps the leg bones with metal, and drops in a plastic spacer to allow the new joint to glide. While knee replacement procedures have become standard, however, the prices […]
States Newsroom
About 78,000 Arkansas girls and women between the ages of 15 and 44 lived in a county with nowhere to give birth and no obstetric physicians in 2024, according to a Tuesday report from the women’s and children’s advocacy group March of Dimes. Almost half of Arkansas’ 75 counties are maternity care deserts, compared to […]
Louisiana
As the pool of Medicaid patients shrinks and Medicaid funding runs up against new limits, independently owned health clinics will receive a much larger share of what’s available once their new reimbursement rates go into place.
