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Rural Communities Left Hurting Without a Hospital, Ambulance or Doctors Nearby
Andy Miller
STATENVILLE, Ga. — Georgia’s Echols County, which borders Florida, could be called a health care desert.
It has no hospital, no local ambulances. A medical provider comes to treat patients at a migrant…
An Anesthesiology Practice’s Busy Day in Court Collecting on Surprise Bills
Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News
Owen Loney’s surprise bill resulted from an emergency appendectomy in 2019 at a Richmond, Virginia, hospital.
Insurance covered most of the cost of the hospital stay, he said. He didn’t pay…
As Patients Fell Ill With Covid Inside Hospitals, Government Oversight Fell Short
Lauren Weber and Christina Jewett
Photos by Heidi de Marco
One by one, the nurses taking care of actress Judi Evans at Riverside Community Hospital kept calling out sick.
Patients were coughing as staffers wheeled…
Nursing Homes Bleed Staff as Amazon Lures Low-Wage Workers With Prime Packages
ERLANGER, Ky. — The sleek corporate offices of one of Amazon’s air freight contractors looms over Villaspring of Erlanger, a stately nursing home perched on a hillside in this Cincinnati suburb. Amazon Prime Air cargo planes…
Deep Roots Help This Chicago Pharmacist Avoid Creating Another Drugstore Desert
CHICAGO — Del-Kar Pharmacy in the North Lawndale neighborhood has had a front-row seat to history. Martin Luther King Jr. bought his daily newspaper there when he lived in Chicago in the late 1960s. The Black Panthers’ local…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Manchin Blows Up Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) dashed the hopes of President Joe Biden…
Layers of Subcontracted Services Confuse and Frustrate Medi-Cal Patients
Theresa Grant, a resident of Culver City, California, has endured debilitating pain for the past year from a mysterious bulge protruding from her lower rib cage.
She takes multiple painkillers every day. And the cause of her…
New Parents Slapped With Surprise Bills for Treating Newborns
After Christine Malik gave birth to her first daughter three years ago, a clinician affiliated with a company called Pediatrix entered the hospital room and fitted the infant with sensors and wires for a hearing test.
The child…
Some Groups Are Left Out of Montana Covid Test Giveaway Program
As Montana’s tally of new covid cases neared 1,000 each day in September, Shelly Stanley-Lehman worried about when the virus would reach her day care in Billings.
She wanted to have covid tests on hand to help prevent an…
Pandemic Poses Short- and Long-Term Risks to Babies, Especially Boys
The pandemic has created a hostile environment for pregnant people and their babies.
Stress levels among expectant mothers have soared. Pregnant women with covid are five times as likely as uninfected pregnant people to require…