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    Each mobile clinic has a nurse, a counselor and a peer specialist — all trained to drive a 34-foot-long motor home. "I never thought when I went to nursing school that I'd be doing this," says Christi Couron as she pumps 52 gallons of diesel fuel into
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    Health On Wheels: Tricked-Out RVs Deliver Addiction Treatment To Rural Colorado

    Sep 28, 2020
    As COVID-19 forced many addiction treatment clinics to scale back, Colorado brought its clinics on wheels to remote, underserved towns and used telehealth to connect patients with addiction doctors.
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    Vaccine-makers are readying 190 million doses of the flu vaccine for deployment across the U.S. this fall — 20 million more doses than in a typical year. A nasal spray version will be available, as well as shots.
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    2020 Flu Shot Strategy: Get Yours Early In The Season

    Aug 04, 2020
    With the flu season looming, public health officials urge nearly all Americans over 6 months old to get immunized starting next month. Strategize now to avoid getting the flu while COVID-19 is raging.
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    Doctors are urging parents to keep all their child's vaccinations up to date — now, more than ever.
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    Don't Skip Your Child's Well Check: Delays In Vaccines Could Add Up To Big Problems

    Apr 29, 2020
    Telemedicine has its limits. And postponing shots could lead to a resurgence of diseases like measles. Doctors are taking steps to make their offices safe for kids who need to come in.
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    Diagnosing Rural Nevada's Access To Healthcare

    Mar 12, 2020

    Nevada’s rural communities are struggling to get healthcare.

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    Over the past decade, hospitals have been rapidly building outpatient clinics or purchasing existing independent ones. It was a lucrative business strategy because such clinics could charge higher rates, on the premise that they were part of a hospital.
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    Hospitals Chafe Under A Medicare Rule That Reduces Payments To Far-Flung Clinics

    Apr 23, 2019
    Hospital-owned clinics that are miles away should be reimbursed at the same rates as an independent doctor, but not more, Medicare says. That new rule could save taxpayers $380 million in 2019.
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    Sue McConnell is one of more than 130 transgender veterans receiving treatment at the Tucson Veterans Affairs hospital.
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    New VA Clinic Opens For Transgender Vets

    Dec 29, 2015
    The Tucson Veterans Affairs hospital is expanding treatment to the needs of trans veterans, one of the first such facilities in the U.S. to do so. The clinic's services include hormone treatment.
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    The Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center is the county's biggest and busiest public hospital. Walfred Lopez, a community health worker at the center, looks over a patient's health record.
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    Community Health Workers Reach Some Patients That Doctors Can't

    Oct 29, 2015
    Los Angeles is finding that community health workers — problem solvers who are untrained in medicine, but fluent in compassion — can be key to helping the county's sickest and neediest get better.
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