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Total Number of Articles: 676/2/2003 - Bad Medicaid Medicine
Palm Beach Post - As President Bush gives tax cuts that favor the wealthiest, he is trying to cut medical coverage for the poorest. His plan would limit for the next 10 years the amount of money the federal government spends on Medicaid, the $280 billion-a-year federal-state program that pays fo....MORE
6/1/2003 - As Clock Ticks, Albany Makes an Effort to Fix Adult Homes
The New York Times - By CLIFFORD J. LEVY More than a year after state leaders acknowledged severe problems in New York's adult homes for the mentally ill, legislation to improve oversight of the system and toughen enforcement remains bogged down despite general agreement in Albany that change....MORE
5/28/2003 - Prospects, promise draw students to nursing
Albany Times Union - Number earning RN licenses in region is highest in at least 8 years and is rising - By CLAIRE HUGHES, Staff writer
Gregory Watson twice lost jobs when his employers closed local plants. The first time, it was the Sterling Winthrop pharmaceutical research company in the ....MORE
5/25/2003 - There's more to homes than rankings, some say
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin-BY LUCY ATKINSON, Health Reporter- With her husband still in the intensive care unit following a disabling stroke, Erma Parisella had only a few days and some first impressions to choose the nursing home where her partner of 62 years would go to die.
Walki....MORE
5/22/2003 - Ageism Hurts Older Americans' Health Care, Report Finds
WASHINGTON, DC -- (Eli Digital) Systematic bias against the elderly can be harmful to their health.
A new report from the nonprofit Alliance for Aging Research drew upon scores of studies to document pervasive discrimination against elderly people by the U.S. health care system. It found t....MORE
5/18/2003 - Area Nursing Homes Struggle
By DWIGHT R. WORLEY, THE JOURNAL NEWS - (About this report - The Journal News' analysis is an outgrowth of Gannett News Service's efforts to rate America's nursing homes. The study comprises three major analyses of computerized federal government records: patient well-being indicators reported by....MORE
5/18/2003 - Study unveils deep flaws in U.S. nursing home system
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - Larry Wheeler and Robert Benincasa, Gannett News Service - (May 18, 2003) - WASHINGTON - Where a nursing home is and who owns it can be critical in determining the care given to America's most frail and vulnerable, a Gannett News Service investigation has found. <....MORE
5/18/2003 - Most Rockland nursing homes prove to be better than average…
By KHURRAM SAEED, THE JOURNAL NEWS - Seven of Rockland's 10 nursing homes earned above-average ratings, a Journal News analysis of federal and state inspection data has found.
The county's three other nursing homes received an average rating, meaning all of Rockland's facilities fared well....MORE
5/16/2003 - State Told to Pay Medicaid Share
SEATTLE -- Federal officials have threatened to stop sending billions of dollars in Medicaid money to Washington state if it doesn't provide $37.4 million in supplemental payments to elderly and disabled people this year.
The state risks losing more than $2.5 billion if it does not comply w....MORE
5/16/2003 - Legislature overturns 119 vetoes to enact $93B budget hiking taxes, aid to schools
Newsday-By Jordan Rau and Andrew Metz-Albany - A rare bipartisan alliance in the State Legislature yesterday overrode Gov. George Pataki's 119 budget vetoes, imposing new income and sales taxes and providing school districts $1.1 billion more than the governor proposed.
It was the first tim....MORE