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Obama, Democrats Make Last Push for Obamacare Sign-ups Amid Trump Cuts in ad Budget

Former President Barack Obama and other high-profile Democrats are on a social media blitz to remind people to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act before the open enrollment period ends in most states on Saturday. Read More

Staffing Levels, Culture Challenge Quality of Nursing Home Care

In 2018, the state took the unusual step of issuing a consent order requiring a New Haven nursing home to hire an independent nurse consultant and implement minimum staffing ratios after inspections at the facility uncovered numerous lapses in care and safety violations. Read More

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Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health Care are ‘Persistent’

In 2009, the body that accredits medical schools issued a new requirement: All medical schools must implement policies that help them attract and retain more diverse students. Failure to do so can lead to citations from this body, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and can affect their status as accredited institutions. This effort appears […]

Tech Firms Enter the Business of Campus Mental Health Care

At many college counseling centers therapists are overwhelmed and students are forced to wait weeks for an appointment, even as more of them seek help for anxiety, depression, and sleep and eating disorders. Christie Campus Health, a Lexington start-up that will be launched Wednesday, thinks it has a solution: technology. Read More

Accepting Alzheimer’s, One Lost Memory at a Time

With a slow moving disease like Alzheimer’s, there’s still time for doubt. Perhaps the diagnosis is wrong and the memory holes and struggle for words are just normal aging. Deep in your psyche, there’s still a little spark of hope. Read More

Kaiser Permanente strike: 4,000 mental health workers begin 5-day strike

Four thousand Kaiser Permanente mental health workers began a five-day strike on Monday amid an ongoing labor dispute. The dispute surrounds under-staffing issues at Kaiser facilities, according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The union says the staffing problem forces patients to wait a month or more for therapy appointments. Read More

The truth about Medicare for all

Like a cheap sweater that can be pulled apart by tugging at a thread, Obamacare is in tatters. Soaring costs of premiums coupled with outrageous deductible hikes have made things worse, not better. All this was predictable. Despite being less than a decade old, the law has clearly failed. The cost of health care did […]

Loma Linda University School of Public Health Study Finds Railyard…

Loma Linda University School of Public Health researchers released the first study assessing all 18 major freight railyards in California and found a link with freight-railyard pollution to asthma-related emergency room visits in children. The study was recently published in Preventive Medicine Reports. This large-scale railyard study is a follow-up to the i nitial study […]

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University Health CEO resigns amid bacterial outbreak

University Hospital President and CEO John Kastanis resigned Thursday amid a deadly bacterial outbreak at the hospital’s neonatal intensive-care unit. Four premature babies in the neonatal ICU have contracted the Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria since September, three of whom died, according to public health officials. Read More

Indiana State University student group proposes $75 mental health fee

Most Indiana State University students would pay a $75 per semester fee for increased mental health services in the future under a proposal from the Student Government Association. Association President Stephen Lamb says demand for mental health services is increasing and students now generally must wait weeks to see counselors. Read More

CCPH deals with a changing mental health landscape on college campuses

Discussions of mental health diagnoses and treatment have increased in recent years, particularly on college campuses. At the University of Massachusetts, this upward trend has increased scrutiny of the campus’ Center for Counseling and Psychological Health. In a press release from the American Psychiatric Association, more than one-third of students reported a diagnosed condition in […]

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More College Students Report Mental Health Conditions

The number of students coming to college with a mental health condition continues to increase. The 2018 College Student Health Survey of University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMTC) found a 29 percent increase in mental health conditions among students since 2015, with nearly half of all female students reporting a diagnosis in their lifetime. Read […]

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