MOHAVE VALLEY — An egg-stra special scramble took place Saturday morning at Willow Springs Golf Course when hundreds of children picked the links clean of Easter eggs and toys.
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A Connecticut group wants to work with the General Assembly on improving health equity. A 2023 Health Equity report from the nonprofit group DataHaven found disparities in care led to 14,000 deaths among Black residents between 2017 and 2022. While the pandemic worsened the fatalities, it highlighted people falling through the cracks of Connecticut s healthcare system. .
Florida s Community Health Centers are raising concerns about their own financial health due to what they ve said are inadequate Medicaid reimbursement rates. The centers are urging lawmakers to adjust the rates to cover what they ve found to be a gap of $106, or just over 42%, for every Medicaid patient visit. Bradley Herremans, CEO of Suncoast Community Health Centers in Hillsborough County, said filling the funding gap could enable them to expand services and even open new clinics, while failure to do so would force them to curtail or close some services, disproportionately affecting low-income populations. .
Legal and medical experts from the University of Nevada Las Vegas are discussing the implications of medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying is when terminally ill and mentally capable adults with less than six months to live can request a prescription for medication, in case they choose to use it to end their suffering. David Orentlicher, director of the health law program at UNLV, said 10 states and Washington, D.C., now allow medical aid in dying. .