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New free care clinic now serving Fremont County residents

WEBA new free medical clinic in Lander offers care to low-income Fremont County residents who lack insurance. It joins Wyoming’s other free clinics in Laramie, …

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Gov. Gordon unveils plan for reforming Wyoming’s mental health …

WEBWyoming’s lauded frontier ethos can keep people here from accessing mental health resources, according to Gov. Mark Gordon. “Wyoming is deeply rooted in …

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Transition in Coal Country: Healthcare crises mount at rural

WEBNow, thanks to the downturn in coal and oil, those same three mills will deliver about $11.2 million in 2020. Campbell County Health in Gillette. Hospitals and …

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Wyoming likely no longer home to nation’s highest suicide rate

WEBUsing data from state health departments and the Census Bureau, WyoFile calculated that Montana’s suicide rate was 28.67 per 100,000 residents last year, …

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Some Wyomingites could face barriers to mental health services …

WEBCHEYENNE—Some Wyomingites could face more barriers accessing mental health services starting this July — depending on whether lawmakers choose to …

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Sublette County’s long, bumpy road to build its first hospital

WEBSublette County’s long, bumpy road to build its first hospital. by Joel Funk June 29, 2021. A conceptual depiction shows the yet-unnamed Sublette County …

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Lives on the line: Working Wyo’s first statewide suicide

WEBThat’s what I love to do and the most rewarding thing is when you save that life.”. If you or someone you know needs to talk, you can call the Suicide Prevention …

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Northern Arapaho seek better healthcare at IHS clinics Wyofile

WEBThe Northern Arapaho, together with the Eastern Shoshone, seek a pass-through of federal Medicaid funds for IHS clinics on the Wind River Reservation. …

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Want quality health care

WEBThen urge lawmakers to fund the Wyoming Department of Health. Federal pandemic funds that bolstered the health department after cuts in 2021 are going away. …

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Wyoming State Hospital bed shortages continue, report finds

WEBUsing surveys from 2016 and last April through August, some key Wyoming stats in the report include: People in Wyoming jails spend an average of 203 days — or …

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The giant mental-health loophole in Wyoming’s gun regulations

WEBIn Wyoming, someone can be deemed a danger to themselves or others, be committed to the state hospital for severe mental illness, be released, go directly to a …

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Wyoming is only state with growing uninsured population

WEBWyoming is the only state that has actually seen an increase in its uninsured population from 2013 to 2015. A new Gallup survey found Wyoming’s uninsured rate …

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Sweeping redesign of state’s mental-health-services policy underway

WEBFuchs said payment would be the focus of the Aug. 17 gathering. The work of redesigning how the state approaches mental health and substance abuse services will …

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Staff shortages plague Wyoming medical providers

WEBEverybody has shortages of nurses,” she said. The problem isn’t just in Wyoming — in the United States employment in the health care industry was down by …

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A professor in the field

WEBKen Rose has studied fossils in Wyoming’s Bighorn basin for more than 40 years, reconstructing the paleo-ecology of the area.

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CDC lacks rural focus; advocates hope new office will help

WEBThe omnibus appropriations bill signed by President Joe Biden in December 2022 gave the CDC $5 million for the 2023 fiscal year to create the Office of Rural …

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Wyoming has few plans for its opioid settlement millions

WEBPlanning to plan. So far, WDH has received a little over $829,000 in settlement funds, and split it evenly between the Behavioral Health Division and Public …

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UW’s Slippery Slope

WEBMuch of what we call “education” forecloses or shuts down or walls off meaningful questioning and free inquiry. Much of it is based on obedience and …

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Withheld: The potentially life-saving map that most can’t see

WEBWithheld: The potentially life-saving map that most can’t see. First responders, law enforcement and some health care professionals can access ODMAP …

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What’s in store for the devastated Wyoming Range Deer Herd

WEBThe herd enjoyed a much higher “nutritional plane,” he said, than it had going into the winter of 2016-17, when average body fat in the Wyoming Range was nearer to …

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Wyoming’s opioid crisis: You can’t manage what you can’t measure

WEBWe know that now thanks to “ Withheld ,” WyoFile’s four-part series on the opioid crisis by health and public safety reporter Madelyn Beck. She spent six months …

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