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WEBState health officials in Washington and California are scrambling to create mechanisms for hospitals to report their Covid-19 patients in real time. October 15, 2019 …

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How Illinois’ sexual assault survivor law allows hospitals to deny …

WEBThe state Department of Public Health investigated Jacksonville Memorial after it received a complaint about the girl’s care. Inspectors found four violations related …

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Sequel to close New Mexico youth facility amid more abuse …

WEBSequel Youth & Family Services, the company at the center of a 2020 APM Reports investigation, has agreed to close a New Mexico treatment center for children …

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Lax oversight, no-bid contracts and mysterious pricing: …

WEBHealth economists say this approach will result in insurance companies eventually passing the costs of testing on to consumers. Still, public health experts …

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The invention of a disease and the pursuit of one molecule

WEBThe definition of Alzheimer's disease — as we understand it today — goes back to a fledgling agency, created in the 1970s, called the National Institute on Aging in …

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Sequel confronts more abuse allegations amid concerns about its

WEBSequel Youth & Family Services, a company that once sought to dominate the youth behavioral health industry, is facing growing financial turmoil amid new …

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Public health labs suffered budget cuts prior to coronavirus

WEBMoreover, 25 states and Washington, D.C. saw cuts to overall public health spending between 2008 and 2018, according to data compiled by the State Health …

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Shutting down a teen treatment facility in Utah is no easy task, …

WEBAmanda Slater was the top regulator in Utah for three years before she moved to a new job within the Department of Health and Human Services recently. …

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Most states have done little to stop e-cigarette use among kids …

WEBIt's a vexing problem for public health officials to encourage adults looking to quit smoking to use e-cigarettes while warning teens about the dangers of vaping. …

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New data underscores Utah's lax oversight of youth treatment …

WEBNew data underscores Utah's lax oversight of youth treatment programs. Over the course of hundreds of inspections, regulators marked the programs as …

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Former residents of troubled youth facility receive settlement money

WEBSeventeen former residents of Mesabi Academy, a now-closed juvenile facility in northern Minnesota, have received $1.495 million as part of a legal settlement, newly …

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At the height of pandemic, Kentucky’s Democratic governor eased …

WEBWhen Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, eased critical Covid-19 restrictions in December, more than twice as many people were dying of the virus as …

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How Utah has let its many youth treatment centers off the hook

WEBMarch 26, 2021 | by Curtis Gilbert, Jessica Miller, and David Fuchs. Havenwood Academy, a youth treatment center in Cedar City, Utah, was investigated for zip tying a girl's wrists …

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How Washington, D.C., mishandled its response to the coronavirus

WEBThe city’s health department declined to make anyone available for an interview, and it instead issued a statement. “The onset of Covid-19 was swift and …

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Under scrutiny, company that claimed to help troubled youth …

WEBThe company dreamed of dominating America’s $220 billion behavioral health care industry. Today, Sequel has all but vanished. Following a barrage of abuse …

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Alisa Roth APM Reports

WEBAlisa Roth is the mental health correspondent for APM Reports. A 2020-2021 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, she is the author of Insane: …

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How Utah became the leading place to send the nation's troubled …

WEBFor years, Utah has been the epicenter of the nation’s so-called troubled-teen industry. Since 2015 some 20,000 kids have been sent to programs in Utah that cater to …

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Eleven states don't track or reveal Covid-19 hospitalizations

WEBA spokesman for the Illinois Department of Public Health told ProPublica that hospitalizations were "a very fluid situation," and it was unlikely that the state could …

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Judges use ‘arbitrary,’ ‘horrendous’ reasons to keep teens in adult

WEBJudges including Brown at times seemed to disagree on whether teens’ mental health diagnoses should weigh for or against transfer to juvenile court. In one …

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Thousands of public housing residents live near the most polluted

WEBWhile the local health department didn’t substantively address the immediate lead threat facing Steve Kimball at Canyonside, federal agencies were aware …

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Embattled Sequel closes three more facilities APM Reports

WEBSequel Youth & Family Services, once one of the nation’s largest operators of treatment centers for children with behavioral problems, plans to close three more …

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