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1st Choice Healthcare gets $3.6 million COVID grant
Healthcare provider receives over $3M By Logan Whaley | April 9, 2021 at 8:11 PM CDT - Updated April 9 at 8:11 PM
CORNING, Ark. (KAIT) - A Region 8 health center is receiving millions to help in the fight against COVID-19.
1st Choice Healthcare, based in Corning, will receive $3.6 million as part of the American Rescue Plan. CEO Brigitte McDonald says theyâre focusing on getting as many people vaccinated as possible, focusing on smaller communities in rural areas.
She says 1st Choice is planning on adding a mobile unit, helping with getting COVID vaccines distributed to vulnerable populations.
04/09/21
Ann Beal
In a categorical win for telehealth last year, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) amended the Stark Law and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) to allow disparate groups, including healthcare providers, telehealth and mHealth vendors, to work together on related health care services without risking unlawful consequences.
Enacted more than 40 years ago, the Stark Law was written to preclude physicians from referring patients to a provider with whom the physician or his family has a fiscal relationship, while the
Anti-Kickback Statute was meant to prohibit compensation, defined as anything of value, for referrals payable by a federal healthcare program. These laws were originally designed to safeguard patients against poor service in a fee-for-service arrangement whereby services are paid separately, incentivizing the quantity of care model. However, these laws have resulted in prohibiting physicians, hospitals and healthcare prov
Officials in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be hosting a virtual community discussion on child abuse prevention April 20.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva will be joined by other officials to discuss child abuse prevention with the community during a virtual event as April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Along with Villanueva will be LASD Capt. Michael Hannemann, Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami, Karen Imagawa, chief of staff at L.A. Children’s Hospital, and Patricia Wenskunas from Crime Stoppers.
The discussion will include ways to spot child abuse and how to prevent it from occurring, as well as resources available through the county and Sheriff’s Department.
Younger migrant children arrive in San Diego on Friday
Health and Human Services say the new group of children are “tender age” which is classified as between 5-12 years old. Author: Allison Royal (KFMB), Heather Hope (Reporter) Published: 11:10 AM PDT April 9, 2021 Updated: 10:28 PM PDT April 9, 2021
SAN DIEGO The United States Department of Health and Human Services transferred 300 migrant girls from the San Diego Convention Center to another site at Fort Bliss in Texas. The girls were transferred to make room for younger children who arrived Friday morning.
Health and Human Services said the new group of girls will be “tender age” which is classified as between 5-12 years old. Health and Human Services said it will make staffing changes to accommodate for these new younger kids.