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Tennessee s Legislature on Friday passed a sweeping bill that exempts more health providers from certificate-of-need requirements.
Under the bill, mental health hospitals, and hospital-run outpatient treatment centers for opioid addiction would no longer need to apply for CONs to open. Existing hospitals could also increase their number of beds, but not add new types of bed capacity for services not already performed. Hospitals also would be prohibited from adding additional beds at satellite locations.
CON laws require a formal approval for health providers to demonstrate community need before adding certain services or beds, with the goal of increasing competition and limiting unnecessary services. But hospitals and other critics say the laws just protect regional monopolies and stifle innovation. Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia have certificate-of-need regulations.
Mooney sets new national U-20 5,000 metre record
Cappincur woman achieves qualifying time for European and World U-20 championships
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LAURA Mooney has set a new Irish U-20 womens 5,000 metres outdoor record. The Cappincur woman had a super race in America yesterday to set the new record of 16.19.43 – she beat the previous record of 16.19.80 of Sarah Collins by a fraction of a second.
Mooney is on a scholarship at Providence College in Rhode Island and she set the record at the Virginia Grand Prix in Charlottesville. Incidentally Collins was also in Providence College when she set her record in California.
Rev. Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgo Austriaco (CBHD)
“I would like to do everything in the Philippines. I would like this to be a Filipino vaccine for the Filipinos,” Austriaco said in an interview over DZBB Thursday, April 29.
He hopes that the Philippines will be a vaccine independent country in the next 10 years.
“The yeast-based oral vaccine could be scaled up and manufactured in the Philippines by our pharmaceutical companies. It can be mass produced in the Philippines so we would be able to be independent of the global supply, which is why we are struggling today,” he said.
“So my hope and my dream is we would become a vaccine independent country in the next 10 years,” he added
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