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House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda's bid for a Senate comeback has officially begun following the launch of her campaign in her home province of Antique on Tuesday, Feb. 8. Loren Legarda (Photo from Loren Legarda's Facebook page) The former three-term senator has vowed to launch a campaign foc
The Department of Public Health and Social Services will hold a three-day back-to-school walk-up immunization clinic in recognition of National Immunization Awareness Month. The clinic is for students ages 4 to 18 who are uninsured, or covered under Medicaid or the Medically Indigent Program, according to a news release. It will be held at the University of Guam Calvo Field House from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., or while supplies last, July 29-31. Parents and participants must provide updated shot records to participate, the release stated. The varicella vaccine (also known as chickenpox vaccine), PPD...
HAGÃ TÃA (The Guam Daily Post) â Local health officials are keeping a keen eye on the expiration of expanded Medicaid assistance as they map out their budgetary needs for the next fiscal year. The federal government covers a certain share of Medicaid expenses based on the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage for the state or territory. The FMAP for Guam has fluctuated recently but has been 55% in the past, meaning the local government needed to put up a 45% share to get the federal government to cover the rest. In fiscal year 2019, Congress raised the FMAP to 100%. In fiscal 2020 a...
Letter: Mass transit is an investment in our people Jose “Pedo” Terlaje When the discharging nurse from the Veterans Administration clinic told me that veterans were having trouble coming to and from their VA medical appointments, I knew we had to do something about it. I told Guam Regional Transit Authority Director Cel Babauta about the need for a veterans shuttle and he immediately recognized that this needed to be addressed. From the moment I told him to the moment we were ribbon cutting for the launch of the Veteran Shuttle, was less than one week. Any veteran on Guam can now call 30...