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Hospital executive resigns as state auditor alleges misuse of public funds on golf, ‘lavish’ fun

  • Cindy Gonzalez

LINCOLN  — The top administrator of Nebraska’s first designated “rural emergency hospital” has resigned amid financial abuse allegations from the state auditor that he used hospital funds for “lavish personal entertainment.”  Auditor Mike Foley, in a 28-page letter Tuesday, laid out more than $38,000 in questionable purchases that his team found the chief executive and […]

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March of Dimes report highlights Arkansas’ gaps in maternity care

  • Tess Vrbin

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 […]