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Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford in June, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Asante seeks to dodge state review of surgery center purchase

Leadership of the Asante hospital system is seeking to use a loophole in the state merger approval process to avoid answering state officials’ questions about how a proposed deal would affect costs
Apr 28
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Anita Chopra, M.D., FACP, runs the post-COVID clinic at UW Medicine Primary Care in Shoreline, and says she is encountering more cases of long COVID in her practice. (Photo by Daniel Berman)
Anita Chopra, M.D., FACP, runs the post-COVID clinic at UW Medicine Primary Care in Shoreline, and says she is encountering more cases of long COVID in her practice. | DANIEL BERMAN/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

Latino farmworkers face high rates of long COVID but barriers delay diagnosis

A 2020 study found that many farmworkers initially avoided vaccination due to concerns about side effects, fears of contracting COVID-19 from the vaccine, and distrust of the government.
Apr 28
A metal gangway leads to the floating pumphouse used to harvest water for Public Wholesale Water Supply District 20 outside Sedan, Kan.
A metal gangway leads to the floating pumphouse used to harvest water for Public Wholesale Water Supply District 20 outside Sedan, Kan. A new analysis found agricultural states, including Kansas, have seen drinking water systems record thousands of instances of elevated nitrate, a potentially dangerous byproduct of farming. | KEVIN HARDY/STATELINE

Nitrate contaminates the drinking water of millions of Americans, study finds

Researchers are increasingly questioning whether the federal threshold should be lowered as more studies find links between even low levels of nitrate consumption and cancer and birth defects
Apr 28
Mary Jannotta, left, and Susan Ousterman with a picture of Ousterman's son, Tyler Cordeiro, who died of a drug overdose in 2020.
Pennsylvania resident Mary Jannotta, 77, left, and her daughter, Susan Ousterman, with a photograph of Susan’s son, Tyler Cordeiro. Jannotta had to overcome an addiction to opioid painkillers. Cordeiro died of a drug overdose in 2020. | JESSICA GRIFFIN/THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

'A punch in the gut:' After years of waiting, many opioid victims will be shut out of Purdue settlement

Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation
Apr 28
About half of Open Door Community Health Centers' patients are on Medicaid.
Open Door Community Health Centers has 13 clinical sites in two counties in Northern California, and about 50% of its patients are on Medicaid, the state and federal insurance program for low-income people. | OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS

Big companies position themselves for payday from $50B federal rural health fund

Small and regional health care organizations may see much of rural health care funding go to larger companies working on infrastructure projects
Apr 28
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The help that many older Americans need most

Community health workers, who act as liaisons between clients and the health care system, are essential, if unsung players in helping the system work for older clients
Apr 28

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