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Secrecy shrouds troubled state psychiatric hospital in Montana : Shots

Jennifer Mitchell thumbs through her husband’s medical records from his time at the Montana State Hospital. Records show doctors took Mitchell’s husband off some of his congestive heart failure medications. Mitchell says she was never consulted. Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio Jennifer Mitchell…

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Woman’s Hospital implements Exercise is Medicine program | Entertainment/Life

Baton Rouge’s Deane Capone, 70, a shopper in the ‘Exercise is Medicine’ system at Woman’s Hospital’s Woman’s Centre for Wellness, warms up on a recumbent cross trainer, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Staff members Photograph BY TRAVIS SPRADLING Brooke Coogan phone calls physical exercise a wonder drug. She’s been witnessing the…

Healthy Kids

A 15-year-old stayed in a hospital for 40 days. The reason? The state child welfare agency had no place to put him.

For decades, Massachusetts’ child welfare disaster has meant little ones shuttled around the point out in the back seats of workers’ cars and trucks or sleeping on couches and bean luggage in agency offices. But amid a persistent shortage of group house beds, foster homes, and other placements, the point…

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Hospital shutdown in Pennsylvania spurs questions about private equity in health care

Just after a car or truck accident last month, Latifa Dixon, a mom of two, arrived at the emergency room at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in suburban Philadelphia only to discover the ER experienced just shut down. Twenty-8-calendar year-aged Cecilia Vizuete, who was getting trouble feeding her just one-calendar year-previous…