Patient Safety and Ethics

The City Option program provides medical reimbursement account financed by deposits from employers.

Workers may get cash payout from medical reimbursement accounts

The offer of $500 in bonus funds is intended to help with COVID-19-related expenses.

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics

We surveyed nearly 200 SLO County renters on their housing conditions. Here’s what they said

Most San Luis Obispo County tenants struggle to afford their housing — and many likely live in units that are unhealthy because local governments don’t hold landlords accountable for renting old, crumbling homes and apartments.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Cristina is one of almost 8 million people in the US who are not citizens and lack health insurance.

In Arizona, affected immigrants do not go to the doctor for fear of the ‘public charge’ rule

"If I’m going to die, I’m going to die at home. I don’t want to go to the hospital. I’m going to stay here, for I don’t want to leave behind any more problems than we already have.”

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics

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Now is the time for critical background reporting on your local health department

Before the vaccines start to arrive in various jurisdictions, explain to your audience the character of your county and state health officials.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Why domestic violence calls are surging for Asian American women amid the pandemic

The rise comes even as factors such as culture, racism, poverty and immigration status often make it harder for Asian American women to seek help.

Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Domestic Violence, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Paris Hilton is campaigning to shut down Provo Canyon School, a Utah facility for troubled teens she attended in the 1990s. Hilt

Paris Hilton creates petition to shut down Provo Canyon School

Celebrity Paris Hilton says she is now on a mission to reform the troubled teen industry. Her first target: Provo Canyon School, the Utah facility she attended in the 1990s where she says she was physically and emotionally abused.

Mental Health, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Elvia Sandoval and her daughter, Marcella Reed, pose with a photo of Reed’s grandfather, Walter Anderson, who contracted COVID-1

COVID-19 Exposes Lack of Medical Staff in Assisted Living Facilities

Thin medical staffing faces greater scrutiny – even from within the assisted living industry – as COVID-19 cuts a deadly swath through elder care facilities.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging

Buses head out on their morning routes at the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Fleet Maintenance Center in Greeley Aug. 19, 2020.

Youth suicide rates during the pandemic foreshadow what experts say will be a 'tsunami of need'

The number of suicides among young Coloradans remains unchanged during the coronavirus pandemic compared to previous years, but school and health officials expect to soon see a “tsunami of need” for mental health care.

Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Jennifer, left, and her daughter Elizabeth, right, are pictured in their backyard on Feb. 23, 2020. Police were dispatched twice

Teens increasingly turn to Safe2Tell for suicide, mental health emergencies. But Colorado doesn’t track what happens next.

The Denver Post finds that a lack of data collection and a state law restricting the release of information mean there’s little public accountability about what happens after authorities respond to crisis line tips.

Mental Health, Patient Safety and Ethics

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

What makes you sick? Look to history of racial bias for answers

If you’re born poor and Black in Charlotte, statistics suggest you’ll die that way, too. It wasn’t always that way, though.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics

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Patient Safety and Ethics

Workers may get cash payout from medical reimbursement accounts

We surveyed nearly 200 SLO County renters on their housing conditions. Here’s what they said

In Arizona, affected immigrants do not go to the doctor for fear of the ‘public charge’ rule

Now is the time for critical background reporting on your local health department

Why domestic violence calls are surging for Asian American women amid the pandemic

Paris Hilton creates petition to shut down Provo Canyon School

COVID-19 Exposes Lack of Medical Staff in Assisted Living Facilities

Youth suicide rates during the pandemic foreshadow what experts say will be a 'tsunami of need'

Teens increasingly turn to Safe2Tell for suicide, mental health emergencies. But Colorado doesn’t track what happens next.

What makes you sick? Look to history of racial bias for answers