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Inside the Equal Justice Initiative's new health clinic in …

WEBBuilding a support system after prison: Inside EJI's new, free health care clinic. When Dr. Margaret Hayden and her husband Dr. Sanjay Kishore graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2019, they

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How EJI provides healthcare to uninsured, formerly …

WEBThe clinic is located at 421 St. Luke’s Drive. Hadley Hitson covers children's health, education and welfare for the Montgomery Advertiser. She can be reached at [email protected]. To support

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UAB looks to to improve rural health care systems in …

WEBThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded the University of Alabama at Birmingham a $5 million cooperative agreement to improve rural health care systems in the state last week. The

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Healthcare quality varies across rural Alabama, especially …

WEBFoster says that’s difficult, and it has been for years. Women in rural Alabama face challenges accessing any type of healthcare, not just reproductive health services. “There's just a general

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Sumter County's Hill Hospital brings in $575,000 in …

WEBFor the last four years, the Center for Optimizing Rural Health deemed the hospital “vulnerable” and offered technical assistance to improve its financial standing. Now, the hospital will

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4 things to know about Alabama kids' well-being from …

WEB4. Child well-being tends to be worse in rural Alabama. Alabama’s rural Black Belt counties fare the worst in child well-being, taking 13 out of the 15 lowest rankings. The bottom counties

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EJI hunger relief program supported over 2,000 families in …

WEBThe impact of $415 per month. Now, a year since launching, over 2,000 families have benefited from the EJI program, and 200 of those have been in Montgomery County. The EJI team members leading

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Tuskegee Syphilis Study impacts Macon County residents …

WEBFrom 1932 until 1972, doctors from the U.S. Public Health Service ran a study in Macon County that included 600 Black men, many of whom were sharecroppers and had never been to a doctor’s office

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Montgomery County brings free health fair to rural …

WEB1:26. Montgomery County is hosting a free health fair Saturday featuring about 15 vendors who will teach people about nutrition and wellness. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the

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Mental health crisis center partially funded by ARPA …

WEBThe first phase of the project began in May 2021, when Carastar's mobile crisis teams started working with law enforcement to help people in mental health crises. Alex Gladden is the Montgomery

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Jenny Savage named Montgomery Advertiser's April Community …

WEBHadley Hitson covers children's health, education and welfare for the Montgomery Advertiser. She can be reached at [email protected]. To support her work, subscribe to the Advertiser. From

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Currently in 21 schools, MPS wants to expand school based …

WEBFor more information about the services offered by the Montgomery Area Mental Health Authority, call 334-279-7830. To see if school based counseling is offered at your child's school, call MPS at

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Alabama hospitals are profitable enough to comply with price

WEBWith such significant financial resources available, Alabama hospitals have no financial excuse for failing to comply with a federal hospital price transparency rule that took effect over two

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Montgomery: Closed abortion clinic still working to serve community

WEB1:21. Abortions have stopped at Reproductive Health Services, a Montgomery clinic that was one of only three in the state providing abortions. But the work goes on. Abortions stopped on June 24

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Prattville Baptist opens $6.5 million geriatric treatment facility

WEB0:04. 1:26. PRATTVILLE — Prattville Baptist Hospital celebrated the completion of its $6.5 million geriatric behavioral treatment facility Monday morning. The ribbon was cut on the 22-bed wing

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Ivey signs law allowing employee exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines

WEB0:03. 1:24. Gov. Kay Ivey signed bills Friday that would require businesses to allow employees exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine and allow the Alabama attorney general to enforce a law on

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ADPH issues first news release on Lowndes County justice …

WEBThe U.S. Department of Justice announced on May 4 that its first ever environmental justice investigation found evidence of racial discrimination in the way the Alabama Department of Public Health

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ADPH faces lawsuit over failure to allow birth centers to provide care

WEBAlabama has some of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the country, and it is filled with a growing number of maternity care deserts.Access to care and positive health outcomes are

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For Web.com Tour’s Bohn, heart attack changed his life and family

WEBThe former PGA Tour winner, still just 45 years old, recounted the discomfort he felt and the decision to have it checked out, right down to the shock when he realized he was having a heart attack

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Valiant Cross fundraises for new HVAC system at Prevail Union …

WEBThis year, the fifth annual breakfast will be "block party style" at Prevail Union in the Kress building from 7:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, April 25. Proceeds will go toward replacing the

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Youth facility did not protect residents from assault, lawsuit claims

WEBIn accordance with federal law, the Alabama Department of Youth Services has a Prison Rape Elimination Act Coordinator who may be reached at 1-334-604-4233 to report suspected sexual abuse that

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Former ASU President William H. Harris dies at 79

WEB0:02. 1:26. Former Alabama State University President Dr. William H. Harris died Friday, April 19, the university confirmed. Harris was 79. “The university extends its deepest condolences to

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