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News Articles: medical care

A medical respite room in Macon's new Central City Apartments.

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  • Economy

New Macon apartments to offer affordability and medical respite for the unhoused

Macon's Central City Apartments will offer below-market rate rents to service workers and safe space for medical recovery for the unhoused.

May 21, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Henry Jones, who kept getting sicker after 11 years of homelessness, was admitted in 1991 into Christ House, one of the first medical respite programs in the country.

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  • Health Care

Medical respite offers refuge for homeless people recovering from illness

A growing number of private insurance companies are starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people. Here's what's driving the trend.

May 30, 2022
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By:
  • Ryan Levi and
  • Dan Gorenstein
This 2017 photo shows a slogan is on the storefront of Journey, a former substance abuse treatment center, in Lake Worth, Fla. Now closed, it was one of two centers owned by Kenneth Chatman, who is now serving a 27-year federal prison sentence for health care fraud and money laundering convictions.

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  • National

As Addiction Deaths Surge, Profit-Driven Rehab Industry Faces 'Severe Ethical Crisis'

Many drug rehab programs use aggressive sales techniques, price-gouge patients and provide substandard care. The system often pushes people struggling with addiction into debt, but not recovery.

February 15, 2021
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Hospitals must now post on their websites, in a consumer-friendly format, the specific costs for 300 common and "shoppable" services, such as having a baby, getting a joint replacement, having a hernia repaired or undergoing a diagnostic brain scan.

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  • Health

Hospitals Forced To Be More Transparent About Pricing. Will That Save You Money?

Under a rule that kicked in Jan. 1, hospitals must now make public the prices they negotiate with health insurers. But health policy experts have divergent views on what that will mean for patients.

January 05, 2021
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By:
  • Julie Appleby
A U.S. Government Accountability Office report finds congressionally approved emergency humanitarian funds, meant to benefit asylum-seekers apprehended along the border with Mexico, instead was spent on things from dirt bikes to security camera systems. GAO Homeland Security and Justice Director Rebecca Gambler, shown here in 2017, oversaw the agency's investigation.

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  • National Security

Government Watchdog Says Aid For Migrants Misspent By Border Agency

Some of the $112 million Congress approved last year for humanitarian assistance for migrants was spent instead on dirt bikes and dog food.

July 16, 2020
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By:
  • David Welna

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  • Health Care

Savannah LGBT-Friendly Medical Clinic Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary

Finding a doctor can be especially difficult in many Georgia counties. For LGBTQ patients, it can be even worse. A first-of-its-kind clinic in Savannah...

June 05, 2019
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By:
  • La'Raven Taylor and
  • Virginia Prescott

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  • News

"On Second Thought" For Monday, April 22, 2019

Women in Georgia are more likely to die from pregnancy-related and associated complications than in Uzbekistan. The state allocated $2 million to help...

April 23, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Amy Kiley ,
  • and 4 more
James Shepherd Jr. (left), his father, Harold, and his mother, Alana, co-founded Shepherd Center in 1975 along with Dr. David Apple.

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  • Health

How A Near-Fatal Injury Inspired One Atlanta Family To Start Shepherd Center, Give Care To Thousands

In 1973, Atlanta native James Shepherd Jr. graduated from the University of Georgia. He then backpacked through Europe and Africa before heading to Rio...

March 14, 2019
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott

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