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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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This Founder Raised $42M To Start A Digital Health App For Women

Friends told her stories of tragic miscarriages and infertility. Motherhood cast other friends out of the workplace because they couldn’t get the health services and support they needed. The American healthcare system was failing millennial women like her — and she knew she could fix it. Read More

Nursing Homes Penalized For High Hospital Readmissions

Most Connecticut nursing homes will see their Medicare reimbursements reduced in the coming year for having high resident readmission rates to hospitals. Of Connecticut’s 224 nursing homes, 75 percent (168) are being penalized by Medicare based on how often their residents were re-hospitalized within 30 days of discharge. Twenty-five percent (56) in Connecticut are receiving […]

OPINION: Strict Attendance Policies, Deadlines Negatively Affect Students’ Health

Have you gotten your flu shot yet? If you haven’t, it’s not too late. Influenza can be a devastating and potentially deadly illness. And being sick, especially with something as nasty as the flu, is not a luxury many students can afford. Read More

Student-led USC Group Aims for Diversity Among Physical Therapists

The physical therapy profession has a bit of a diversity problem, one might say. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5 percent of all practicing physical therapists are African-American. And only 3 percent of all physical therapy students this year were African-American, while 6 percent were Hispanic, according to the Commission on Accreditation […]

U.S. Relies Heavily on Foreign-Born Healthcare Workers

(Reuters Health) – More than one in four doctors in the United States were born in another country, and a new study suggests many nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and home health aides are also immigrants. Researchers who analyzed U.S. census data on 164,000 health care professionals found that overall, almost 17 percent weren’t born in America […]

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