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News Articles: healthcare access

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia and North Carolina challenging the states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Texas judge to rule on 'abortion pill'; More on Trump and Ralston's 2020 call

Thursday on Political Rewind: A Texas federal judge says he’ll rule soon on the use of a pill that induces more than half of the abortions in the U.S. Plus, new details on the 2020 phone conversation between former President Donald Trump and late Georgia House Speaker David Ralston.

March 16, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
kemp stands with doctors

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  • Health

Nearly every Georgia county faces a shortage of primary care providers

Georgia ranks in the top third of states lacking enough primary care physicians to meet the needs of medically underserved areas.

January 17, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
hospital image

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  • Health Care

Millions of adults and children will likely be re-evaluated for Medicaid eligibility in 2023

An expected end to the federal COVID-19 public health emergency next year means low-income Georgians should prepare for Medicaid evaluations, says the Georgia Department of Public Health

December 31, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The homepage for the new Georgia Access website set up by the state government this fall.

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  • Health

Georgia establishes its own health insurance portal, Georgia Access 

ATLANTA — After failing to win federal approval to exit the federal insurance marketplace earlier this year, Georgia has established its own health insurance portal directing people to private insurers and brokers to buy health insurance. 

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
Family Bridges Healthcare is hiring CNA's on Friday, December 6th.

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  • News

A new initiative aims to bring more certified nursing assistants into the workforce in Georgia

The Georgia CNA Career Pathway Initiative was prompted by a statewide shortage of the vital members of the health care team of a resident in a long-term care facility: certified nursing assistants.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Devon Zwald
Second-year family medicine resident Rickey Patel performs a hearing exam on a newborn at Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie, GA, on June 25, 2022. Doctors in unopposed residency programs, meaning they're the only residents at the hospital, often have more opportunities to work closely with patients and attending physicians.

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  • Health

How rural residency programs for doctors can help solve the health care shortage

Many rural counties in Georgia don’t have even one primary care physician. That’s a problem in a state that ranks near the bottom of the list in multiple health indicators. But as GPB’s Sofi Gratas reports, some residency programs in South and Middle Georgia have been successful in bringing doctors to places that don’t have enough providers. 

 

August 02, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
President Biden on Tuesday pardoned three people and shortened the prison terms of 75 more.

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  • National

Biden takes his first actions on clemency with 3 pardons and 75 commutations

Tuesday's pardons and commutations are part of a broader White House effort to make the criminal justice system more fair – a goal Biden made part of his 2020 presidential campaign.

April 26, 2022
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson and
  • Ayana Archie
A nurse checks a baby in a hospital basement being used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine. More than 300 health facilities lie within conflict lines or areas that Russia claims to control, according to the World Health Organization.

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  • World

The WHO says Ukrainian health care is under attack, and it needs more funds to help

The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on health care in the three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and says hundreds of facilities remain at risk.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Community clinics say the easing of restrictions on telehealth during the pandemic has made it possible for health workers to connect with hard-to-reach patients via a phone call — people who are poor, elderly or live in remote areas, and don't have access to a computer or cellphone with video capability.

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  • Health

Voice-only telehealth may go away with pandemic rules expiring

State rules were temporarily loosened in 2020 to help patients get care outside a doctor's office. But is telehealth by phone safe and effective? State legislatures and insurers must soon decide.

November 23, 2021
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Two doctors with blue hairnets, blue medical scrubs, and masks stand in front of an orange medical tent surrounded by orange traffic cones.

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  • Health

As Vulnerable Populations Confront COVID-19 Realities, Doctors Go 'Beyond The Exam Room' To Help

A frontline doctor and advocate for Georgia's immigrant and refugee populations on supporting and encouraging some of the people most vulnerable to COVID-19.

August 27, 2020
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By:
  • Pria Mahadevan and
  • Virginia Prescott
Dr. Keren Landman and Dr. Carlos del Rio joined "On Second Thought" to discuss how existing inequities play into the risks - and outcomes - of a global pandemic like coronavirus.

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  • Health Care

How The Coronavirus Pandemic Magnifies Health Inequities - And Why Mitigation Matters

The coronavirus pandemic has led to travel restrictions, canceled events, school closures, consumer panic, and mayhem in stock markets across the world....

March 13, 2020
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By:
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • Pria Mahadevan ,
  • and 1 more

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