Tag: Healthcare
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Inmates, Covid, Healthcare and The African American
African American Prisoners/Healthcare for COVID-19 I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves…
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A Coronavirus Story
Will Stone More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States. It is the latest sign of a generational tragedy — one still unfolding in every corner of the country — that leaves in its wake an expanse of grief that cannot be captured in a string…
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Digital #Mindfulness
All of us are surrounded by digital devices, and many of us spend a good portion of our day using the internet on our smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Yet our digital wellbeing isn’t something we often think about. Digital technology can impact our health and relationships and shape the society…
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Infection Lapses Rampant in Nursing Homes
Freedom from abuse and neglect —You have the right to be free from verbal, sexual, physical, and mental abuse, involuntary seclusion, and misappropriation of your property by anyone. This includes, but isn’t limited to: SNF staff, other residents, consultants, volunteers, staff from other agencies, family members or legal guardians, friends,…
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Updated – Medicaid & CHIP in North Carolina – Family Planning = Birth Control!
North Carolina has not expanded Medicaid coverage to low-income adults and or the homeless
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Is Providing Access to Healthcare After Release from Prison Enough?
Is Providing Access to Healthcare After Release from Prison Enough? Providing health care after release is a great program, however, most mental illness requires constant review, which does not occur inside the prison walls. Alana Horowitz Satlin wrote in the Huffington Post, “A 2006 study by the Bureau of Justice…
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