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  • Healing a Dark Past: The Long Road to Reopening Hospitals in the Rural South

    August 12, 2024 |

    Capital B (National) |

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    Response Location: United States, Brownsville, Tennessee

    As rural hospitals in predominantly Black neighborhoods close, groups and community members are joining forces to ensure residents can still access care by reopening a full-service hospital. Rural Emergency Hospital models remove in-patient beds but keep emergency departments active to receive federal support. About 29 rural hospitals have converted to rural emergency hospitals to ensure residents can still access care.

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  • Just How Effective is Scotland's Free Period Product Policy?

    August 11, 2024 |

    Greater Govanhill |

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    Response Location: Scotland, Govanhill

    In 2021, Scotland implemented the Period Products (Free Provision) Act to combat period poverty by ensuring free period products are widely accessible. While schools and some community establishments have successfully improved product accessibility and challenged period stigma, issues like poor awareness, uneven product distribution and insufficient resources remain obstacles.

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  • New air quality alert system works to combat risks of wildfire smoke

    August 10, 2024 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency monitors the air quality during wildfires to notify residents about whether it’s safe to go outside. The air quality alert system sends messages to residents in areas impacted by smoke to warn them of the conditions outside in an effort to prevent respiratory illnesses.

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  • How Kano Childhood Cancer Foundation is Supporting Cancer Survivors: tackling Childhood Cancer in Kano

    August 09, 2024 |

    Women Radio 91.7 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The Kano Childhood Cancer Foundation helps provide care, counseling and financial support to families with children suffering from cancer. The Foundation helps pay for treatment like chemotherapy and other medications and currently has 24 patients in their care.

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  • Substance abuse treatment program offers care and counters stigma

    August 06, 2024 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    Project CARA (Care that Advocates Respect/Resilience/Recovery for All) supports pregnant and parenting people with substance use disorders, providing healthcare, addiction resources and obstetrics care in one spot. The program's hub-and-spokes model makes care more accessible, especially for those in remote areas. Data from the Project also indicates that participants of the program are more likely to attend prenatal and postpartum appointments than those outside of the program.

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  • Urgent Care or ER? With ‘One-Stop Shop,' Hospitals Offer Both Under Same Roof

    August 02, 2024 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

    In collaboration with Intuitive Health, UF Health has opened three centers that offer both ER and urgent care 24/7, at the same facility so patients don’t have to decide themselves which care they need. Instead, doctors at the center make that decision and then the system bills the patient accordingly. This helps them avoid taking on expensive ER bills when that level of care may not have been necessary.

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  • Combating Maternal Mortality in the Black Community

    August 01, 2024 |

    South Side Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Harvey, Illinois

    Black Girls Break Bread addresses maternal mortality disparities among Black women by providing safe spaces, advocating for policy reform and improving local healthcare access. The group successfully advocated for Illinois House Bill 5013, expanding Medicaid patients' freedom to choose healthcare providers, reducing barriers to accessing care. Beyond maternal health care, the group also addresses other community needs like mutual aid and mental health issues among Black women.

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  • Alaska's Tribal Health Organizations Are Essential, and Powerful

    July 31, 2024 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: Copper River, United States, Alaska

    Tribal health organizations deliver culturally competent healthcare, tailoring care to meet specific needs and overcome obstacles to access. These medical centers integrate traditional practices with modern medicine, and this approach to care has led to improved health outcomes for both Native and non-Native patients.

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  • Boosting access: BHP expands mental health services in Knox, Licking counties

    July 31, 2024 |

    Knox Pages |

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    Response Location: United States, Mount Vernon, Ohio

    The Care Now Clinic, established by Behavioral Healthcare Partners of Central Ohio, offers early crisis intervention services for those ages 12 and up, helping bridge the care gap between emergency rooms and waiting to see a physician. The group also recently launched a mobile crisis unit to even further expand access to care. Research shows these models cost less, reduce emergency room visits and make handling chronic conditions more manageable.

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  • Work expands to prevent opioid overdoses for people leaving prison

    July 30, 2024 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Research has found that providing medications for opioid use disorder can help prevent overdoses after release from prison. The state’s Department of Adult Correction recently launched a pilot program to test this theory. 229 of the 287 participants received treatment, several of whom said the access to the medications helped save their lives.

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