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<p>Journalist Mark Taylor examines how one Gary, Indiana emergency room continues to serve some of the sickest and neediest patients in the region, handling more gunshot, knife wound and violent trauma cases than other area ERs, alongside the chronically ill.</p>
<p>This story explores how a Utah hospital attempts to slow the revolving door of asthma hospitalizations. It is a sidebar to the third part of <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/healthy-whom-west… series on health disparities in Salt Lake City</a>.</p>
<p>Utah County's blogging "asthma mom" offers tips to help people avoid attack triggers. It is a sidebar to the third part of <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/healthy-whom-west… series on health disparities in Salt Lake City</a>.</p>
<p>This story is Part 5 of a 15-part series that examines health care needs in Gary, Ind.</p> <p class="body.text">Once a white washboard with dry erasable markers kept track of the patients in the emergency room at Methodist Hospitals’ Northlake Campus in Gary. The board listed the staff on duty and noted the patients and their ER bed numbers.</p> <p class="body.text">Like so many other things in health care, that technology is outdated, replaced by a computerized tracking system produced by the Verona, Wis.-based company that created Methodist’s electronic health record and health care information technology system, EPIC.</p>
<p>This story is Part 6 of a 15-part series that examines health care needs in Gary, Indiana.</p><p class="body.text">In the next three years Methodist Hospitals Northlake in Gary faces perhaps the greatest challenge of its 101-year history.</p> <p class="body.text">Health care reform is expected to reduce the rolls of uninsured Gary patients and expand health care access to thousands. But by 2014 the city’s only acute care hospital must figure out how to replace millions of dollars in government funding scheduled to disappear.</p> <p> </p>
<p>Asthma hospitalization rates are higher in western Salt Lake County ZIP codes.</p>
<p>This story explores how freeways may cause children in certain Utah neighborhoods to be hospitalized more often. It is a sidebar to the third part of <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/healthy-whom-west… series on health disparities in Salt Lake City</a>.</p>
<p>Six areas with highest smoking rates also have highest hospitalizations. It is a sidebar to the third part of <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/healthy-whom-west… series on health disparities in Salt Lake City</a>.</p>
<p>West Virginians would need a doctor's prescription to buy certain cold medications under legislation passed Wednesday by the House of Delegates.</p>
