Good Works: PATCH provides opportunities for young people to provide input on health care practices and policies

Good Works: PATCH provides opportunities for young people to provide input on health care practices and policies

Delanie Johnson La Crosse Community Foundation PATCH believes that health care practices, programs and policies should be developed with young people rather than just for them. After all, who could be better than teenagers at providing insight into teenagers’ needs and wants? PATCH, which stands for Providers and Teens Communicating for Health, has been a … Read more

Let Texas doctors provide crucial emergency care

Let Texas doctors provide crucial emergency care

Physician organizations warn that pregnant patients will suffer and potentially die, or experience life-long complications, if the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals does not overturn a preliminary injunction preventing doctors from providing emergency care for abortion when they deem it medically necessary to stabilize a patient. In the wake of Dobbs decision last year, … Read more

Tribal nations in the United States provide publicly funded opioid treatment to those who need it most

Tribal nations in the United States provide publicly funded opioid treatment to those who need it most

Open this photo in the gallery: Brent Simcosky, director of health services for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, looks on from the Jamestown Healing Clinic on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula May 24.Nathan Vanderklippe/The Globe and Mail A man-made stream trickles a tinkling chatter past the banks of freshly embellished plants to the exposed beams and huge … Read more