Alaska women who live in rural and remote communities usually travel to city centers to give birth against incredible geographical odds.
Patient Safety and Ethics
One of the nation’s largest youth residential treatment programs is shutting down after California officials, prompted by a Chronicle and Imprint investigation into rampant abuse allegations, decided to stop sending vulnerable children there.
Critics of the move to an age-based priority system say it defies evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of spread.
In Unalaska, the only commuter airline went out of business during the pandemic. That poses especially serious obstalces for pregnant women, who can’t postpone appointments.
This is what happens when the hot line receives a report of alleged child maltreatment, according to interviews with Arkansas State Police and Arkansas Department of Human Services officials, state documents and state webpage.
When a reporter delved into the “hidden foster care” system, she found more questions than answers.
A Wyoming treatment center where California had long sent troubled youth will shut down in March, following a Chronicle and Imprint investigation into violent abuse at its campus and others operated by Sequel Youth & Family Services.
In Santa Clara County, homeless deaths are skyrocketing while the homeless population has not substantially changed.
3,184 individuals were given rapid tests in the first five days.
Shawn Thierry can’t recall the moment she gave birth, but she does remember how she almost died.