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Una luchadora por la salud inmigrante, en las cl铆nicas y en las cortes
Jane Garc铆a, directora ejecutiva de la Cl铆nica de La Raza, que opera una red de 30 centros comunitarios de salud, ha sido testigo activo de la lucha por la salud de los inmigrantes.
From Clinic To Courtroom, Fighting For Immigrant Health Care
Jane Garcia is CEO of La Cl铆nica de La Raza, which operates more than 30 clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area serving a high percentage of immigrant patients. She has challenged state and federal immigration policies in court, including the Trump administration鈥檚 recent attempt to expand the 鈥減ublic charge鈥 rule.
Podcast: KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥 鈥楳edicare-For-All鈥 Debate: Who鈥檚 Going To Pay
Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Jennifer Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss the new 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥 bill introduced by House Democrats, the grilling of pharmaceutical company CEOs by a Senate committee and new Trump administration rules that take aim at Planned Parenthood. Plus, Rovner interviews KHN鈥檚 Julie Appleby about the latest 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 installment.
Community Hospitals Link Arms With Prestigious Facilities To Raise Their Profiles
A growing number of community hospitals are forming alliances with some of the nation’s biggest and most prestigious institutions. But for prospective patients, it can be hard to assess what these relationships actually mean.
Providers Walk 鈥楩ine Line鈥 Between Informing And Scaring Immigrant Patients
Some doctors and clinics are proactively informing patients about a proposed policy that could jeopardize the legal status of immigrants who use public benefit programs such as Medicaid. Others argue that because this 鈥減ublic charge鈥 proposal isn鈥檛 final 鈥 and may never be adopted 鈥 disseminating too much information could create unnecessary alarm and cause some patients to drop benefits.
Can A Community Hospital Stay True To Its Mission After Sale To Large Corporation?
After 130 years as a nonprofit with deep roots in western North Carolina, Mission Health announced in March that it was seeking to be bought by HCA Healthcare, the nation鈥檚 largest for-profit hospital chain.
Texas Clinics Busting Traditional Silos Of Mental And Physical Health Care
Efforts to provide care that integrates physical and mental health services are spreading, partly because untreated mental health conditions negatively affect physical health and escalate health care costs.
Psiquiatra se queda cerca de casa, fiel a su promesa de la infancia
La doctora Yamanda Edwards es la 煤nica psiquiatra en el Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital. Ella decidi贸 ejercer en el vecindario en donde creci贸, que tiene una necesidad acuciante de servicios de salud mental.
Psychiatrist Stays Close To Home And True To Her Childhood Promise
Yamanda Edwards is the only psychiatrist at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, caring for residents in South Los Angeles, a community with a shortage of mental health care.
Pobres y sin atenci贸n m茅dica: la nueva realidad de los suburbios
Siempre se crey贸 que era un enclave de los ricos, pero hoy en d铆a m谩s de 17 millones de personas viven en los suburbios, en donde es un desaf铆o encontrar un doctor.
Centros comunitarios de salud obtienen fondos a largo plazo
Como parte de la legislaci贸n para no cerrar el gobierno federal, estos centros que reciben a 27 millones de personas cada a帽o en todo el pa铆s tendr谩n dinero por dos a帽os.
Upsurge Of Suburban Poor Discover Health Care鈥檚 Nowhere Land
More low-income people now live in suburbs than in cities or rural areas, putting a strain on local health services. Suburbs, which traditionally have had fewer resources or infrastructure, are scrambling to catch up.
Community Health Centers Caught In 鈥榃ashington鈥檚 Political Dysfunction鈥
The centers, which serve 27 million people, get about 20 percent of their funding from the federal government. But that revenue is slated to end on March 31.
Stalled Health Programs Await A Green Light On The Hill
With another piece of must-pass legislation set to move through Congress, there鈥檚 a push to attach provisions to keep afloat a number of health-related programs for which funding or specific federal direction has expired.
How The Shutdown Might Affect Your Health
For some federal health programs, a shuttered government means business as usual. But the congressional impasse over funding will hit others hard.
Despite Prod By ACA, Tax-Exempt Hospitals Slow To Expand Community Benefits
The Affordable Care Act mandated that hospitals exempt from taxes work to provide health benefits to the community. But a study finds that has been slow to get off the ground.
Hospitals Find Asthma Hot Spots More Profitable To Neglect Than Fix
Months of reporting and rich hospital data portray life in the worst asthma hot spot in one of the worst asthma cities: Baltimore. The medical system knows how to help. But there鈥檚 no money in it.
Attack On Asthma: Scrubbing Homes Of Allergens May Tame Disease And Its Costs
A pilot program to asthma-proof homes in Baltimore shows that even without intensive professional cleaning services, families can learn to substantially reduce home allergens on their own.
Congress鈥 Cold Shoulder Sends Shivers Through Community Health Centers
The clinics, which serve many poor people, are tightening spending in case Congress doesn鈥檛 approve new funding for them before the government鈥檚 2018 fiscal year starts Sunday.
Postcard From Capitol Hill:聽Lawmakers Put Women鈥檚 Health Care In Its Place
Where women prefer to go for health care becomes a proxy for the abortion debate.
