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Implementing the New Health Care Law and What it Means for Children
Although the benefits from the newly signed health care bill won’t be available until 2014, implementation efforts are already underway. To better understand how the new law will be implemented and what it means for children, GCYF partnered with First Focus to host a webinar to…
Author: Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families
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Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors' Fees
Original Source By MILT FREUDENHEIM Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around the country. The idea is that by paying family physicians, internists and pediatricians to devote…
Author: The New York Times
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College Health Plan Standards Will Improve With the Rest of Health Care
By Sara Jerving College health plans vary in their quality and cost. In the past, federal and state laws have inconsistently regulated college health plans and have failed to require a basic baseline of coverage, rendering many of them insufficient. Moreover, these plans frequently discriminate…
Author: The Nation
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Brick-by-Brick – Investing in Capital Projects for Social Change
The business of making social change often has to start from the ground up. Sometimes literally! Since its inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies has invested over $1.5 billion in a number of capital projects to build the infrastructure that enables health to be advanced, children and…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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New aging centre opens at St. James
EUR48 MILLION ‘Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing’ has been unveiled at St. James’s Hospital by the Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney. The facility will combine prevention and clinical care, research and teaching in the same location to explore novel approaches to the…
Author: Southside People
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Health Critic Brings a Past and a Wallet
Health Care for America Now is an Atlantic grantee. By JIM RUTENBERG WASHINGTON — Richard L. Scott is unusual in these tough economic times: a rich, conservative investor willing to spend freely on a political cause. Mr. Scott is starring in his own rotation of advertisements…
Author: The New York Times
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Vital Healthcare Capital Launches $30 Million Social Impact Loan Fund
Vital Healthcare Capital Launches $30 Million Social Impact Loan Fund Supporting Better Care for People with Complex Needs in Low-Income Communities Financing For Providers Developing Better Care Models and Quality Frontline Healthcare Jobs New York, NY — Vital Healthcare Capital (V-Cap), a social impact lender, today announced a…
Author: Vital Healthcare Capital
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Capturing the Learning - Harvesting the Knowledge
The Centre for Effective Services (CES) is delighted to have Minster for Children and Young People, Dr James Reilly launch its latest publication Prevention and Early Intervention in Children and Young People’s Services – Ten Years of Learning Report today, Monday, 20 October, in St…
Author: Centre for Effective Services
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Study to examine cross-border care
The Centre for Cross Border Studies is an Atlantic grantee. A new cross-border study will revisit the controversial Teamwork report that recommended just one public hospital in the northeast with 24/7 clinical services. As staff in the region are digesting the news that emergency services,…
Author: Irish Medical Times
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Missouri House GOP rejects children's health-care expansion
by JASON NOBLE JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri House Republicans on Wednesday shot down an attempt by Democratic lawmakers and the governor to reduce health-care premiums and increase access for thousands of children. Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, had proposed expanding the number of families eligible…
Author: The Kansas City Star