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Montana examines ways to ease health care workforce shortages

Montana Standard 25 Mar 2025
Bills before the legislature would license community health workers and make it easier for some other health professionals licensed in other states to do business in Montana ... .
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Working to fill the shortage

Rapid City Journal 24 Mar 2025
A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses, a shift supporters say could ease physician shortages in rural areas ....
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Tribal health leaders say Medicaid cuts would decimate health programs

The Daily Item 24 Mar 2025
As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe ....
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The Colorado psychedelic mushroom experiment has arrived

Alternet 24 Mar 2025
Learn more about KFF. Subscribe to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing. This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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Senior living: Nursing homes and the AMA, once Medicaid defenders, hang back as GOP mulls ...

Press Telegram 24 Mar 2025
Levey, KFF Health News ... Ron Wyden, the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, told KFF Health News ... KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues ...
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Barbershop killing escalates trauma for Boston neighborhood riven by gun violence

The Lawton Constitution 23 Mar 2025
BOSTON — On days when the sun was shining and the air was warm with a gentle, cooling breeze, Ateiya Sowers-Hassell liked to keep the salon door open. Labor Day was one of those days. Sowers-Hassell was tending to two ... .
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Program helps people age independently

Rapid City Journal 22 Mar 2025
Chikao Tsubaki was having a terrible time ....
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Sent home to heal, patients avoid wait for rehab home beds

The Oneida Daily Dispatch 21 Mar 2025
By Felice J. Freyer, KFF Health News ... He didn’t need to be in the hospital any longer. But he was still in pain, unsteady on his feet, unready for independence ... (Felice J. Freyer/KFF Health News/TNS) ... Freyer/KFF Health News/TNS) ... ©2025 KFF Health News ... ....
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For seniors with hoarding disorder, a support group helps confront stigma and isolation

The Keene Sentinel 21 Mar 2025
A dozen people seated around folding tables clap heartily for a beaming woman. She’s donated two 13-gallon garbage bags full of clothes, including several Christmas sweaters and a couple of pantsuits, to a Presbyterian church ... .
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Her case changed trans care in prison. Now Trump aims to reverse course

The Lawton Constitution 20 Mar 2025
In 2019, Cristina Iglesias filed a lawsuit that changed the course of treatment for herself and other transgender inmates in federal custody ... .
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¿Los latinos indocumentados utilizan Medicaid? Verificamos cinco mitos que circulan en las redes sociales

San Diego Union-Tribune 20 Mar 2025
KFF Health News, en alianza con Factchequeado, recopiló cinco mitos que circulan en las redes sociales y los analizó con expertos ... Esta historia es producto de una colaboración entre Factchequeado y KFF Health News.
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Scientist whose work led FDA To ban food dye says agency overstated risk

The Daily Item 19 Mar 2025
When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on rats to support ....
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Checking the facts on Medicaid use by Latinos

The Daily Item 19 Mar 2025
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Fact check: Congressman blames Trump team for ending telehealth Medicare benefit. Not quite right

Hastings Tribune 19 Mar 2025
“Breaking news. The Trump administration just announced that Medicare will stop covering telehealth starting April 1. … We need to stand up to these Medicare cuts.” ... .
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Merger of Union, Regional hospitals still in play

Tribune Star 19 Mar 2025
Union Health is making a new bid to state regulators to buy its rival hospital in Terre Haute as the door looks poised to close on such deals ... .

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