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AHCJ members show their support for organization as individual donors
We don't often get the chance to say thank you to the individuals who add $20 to their membership renewals…
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Reform’s next challenge: Telling the health stories of real community residents
President's Corner, by Charles Ornstein Charles Ornstein On a day-to-day basis, it seemed that political stories got better billing -…
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Using public records to track elder abuse
The Lexington Herald-Leader‘s new series, Voiceless & Vulnerable, looks at nursing home abuse in the state. In the investigation (how…
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Tax documents show CEO pay exceeds charity care at some Calif. nonprofit hospitals
Ron Shinkman, editor of the trade newsletter Payers & Providers, spent four months reviewing tax documents filed by 120 nonprofit…
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Cannabis carpetbaggers crisscross California
The Redding Record Searchlight‘s Ryan Sabalow paints a classic tale of the principled old guard taking a stand against exploitative,…
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Guide focuses on diversity in services for the aging
This is a guest post by independent journalist Eileen Beal, that she wrote at my invitation. Don’t let the title…
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Project offers guide on access to autopsy records
The Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project at the University of Florida College of Communications has posted an online guide to…
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CDC says monitoring system finds no ill from spill
The CDC has two major monitoring programs active in the Gulf of Mexico during the spill: The National Poison Data…
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Raw, warm vegetables breed illness in salsa, guac
New research implicates guacamole or salsa in 3.9 percent of restaurant-related outbreaks of foodborne illness between 1998 and 2008, more…
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Rural Texas hospitals seek lifeline from state
The Texas Tribune‘s Elizabeth Titus reports that rural hospitals in the scores of Texas counties without tax bases strong enough…
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