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K-State Extension Community Health Workers in Hays Deliver Care Where It’s Needed

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Carissa Frazier, a community health worker at the K-State Ellis County Extension Office in Hays, hands out pedometers to participants in a Stamp Strong, Stay Healthy class in Hays. Photo courtesy of K-State Extension

Carissa Frazier, a community health worker at the K-State Ellis County Extension Office in Hays, hands out pedometers to participants in a Stamp Strong, Stay Healthy class in Hays. Photo courtesy of K-State Extension Written by Pat MelgaresK-state expansion There, in the living room of the Epworth Towers retirement community in Hayes, six women – … Read more

‘Price gouging’ claims and fight to protect health care access for New York City workers

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UFT President Michael Mulgrew joins Democratic mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani outside IS5 in Elmhurst, Queens.

Approximately 40,000 New York City public employees, retirees, and their dependents could lose in-network coverage as early as next week in a long-running dispute with insurance company Emblem Health over premiums at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Network. The United Federation of Teachers, the city’s second-largest public sector union, accused the hospital of making a “power play” … Read more