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Councilors Ted Gatsas, Joe Kenney, David Wheeler and Janet Stevens have cited concerns about taxpayer dollars for facilities that provide abortions.

End to pandemic assistance, rules mean some major changes for hospitals, individuals

A federal judge is giving New Hampshire one year to stop the practice of holding psychiatric patients in hospitals for long periods of time against their will.

Some of the government’s biggest pandemic protections ended months or longer ago. Those include the December 2021 termination of temporary changes to the child tax credit and February’s end of increased food stamp assistance, protections that experts...

Officials have shared little about what happened leading up to Jason Rothe’s death at New Hampshire’s Secure Psychiatric Unit on April 29, except that he died after a “physical altercation” with six correctional officers, who remain on leave pending...

Get ready to pay for tests. Heres impact on hospitals and COVID-19 testing, vaccinations and treatment.

Thursday’s end of the federal public health emergency brought to a close more pandemic assistance that will impact hospitals and COVID-19 testing, vaccinations, and treatment.

The end of the public health emergency also triggered some changes for COVID-19 health insurance coverage.

Officials have shared little about what happened leading up to Jason Rothe’s death at New Hampshire’s Secure Psychiatric Unit on April 29, except that he died after a “physical altercation” with six correctional officers, who remain on leave pending...

The facility houses people serving prison sentences who require psychiatric care, but also mental health patients who have not been convicted of a crime.