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Lynchburg leaders create plan for "healthier" streets
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefLynchburg leaders are working from the ground up to improve their community. Officials from groups like Lynch’s Landing, Region 2000, the Lynchburg Health Department, and Lynchburg city government have spent the last six months coming up with a...Tags: Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues
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How to handle medical bill problems
When Keith Yaskin and his wife, Loren, rushed their 2-year-old son to the hospital with a dangerous infection in his neck, they weren't thinking about how much his care would cost. After his three-day inpatient stay with nonstop intravenous antibiotics,...
Tags: Medicare, Hospitals and Clinics, Consumers, Corporate Officers, Health and Medical Professionals
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Nursing home safety: Task force hears, voices concern about housing mentally ill felons in facilities
Tribune reportersSocial workers, residents and advocates filled a hearing room Tuesday to demand that Illinois stop using nursing homes to house younger adults with mental illness, including felons who police say assaulted, raped and even killed elderly and disabled...Tags: Nursing, Health, Illinois Governor, Nursing Homes, Mental Illness
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CareFirst proposes 25 percent rate increase under health care reform
Blaming the cost to implement health care reform, the state's largest health insurer has proposed eye-popping rate increases to state regulators for individuals and small businesses. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield wants to raise rates an average of 25...
Tags: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Executive Branch, Phil McGraw, Justice System, Coventry Health Care Inc.
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The talk: Pointers on speaking to a loved one about a senior community
There comes a time in our lives when roles reverse. When children look at their parents with "parental" concern. Perhaps they've noticed a change in their health or their demeanor. Or maybe, the adult child has begun to worry about the miles that separate...
Tags: Homes, Family
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House GOP proposes austere, balanced budget
WASHINGTON – Reprising austerity themes that define the party, House Republicans unveiled a budget proposal Tuesday that they say would achieve the ambitious goal of balancing in 10 years, but it has no chance of acceptance by Democrats in what is...Tags: Medicare, Budgets and Budgeting, Healthcare Laws, Mitt Romney, U.S. Department of Defense
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College news for Feb. 17, 2013
Dean’s¿list Alma College, Alma Mich. — Sophomore Thomas Porter of Danville, a 2011 graduate of Boyle County High School, is the son of Donald Porter of Danville. Eastern Kentucky Univeristy: Joseph Taylor Culbertson, of Danville, a senior...
Tags: Nursing, Shea Weber, Criminals, Religion and Belief, Computer Science
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Arlington Heights senior center looks to partnerships
Months after changes were made to Northwest Community Hospital's senior services, the Arlington Heights Senior Center may now be partnering with other health providers for programming. In January, the Arlington Heights Senior Citizens Commission's...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics
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Commission on Aging swears in new officers
The Washington County Commission on Aging Inc./Area Agency on Aging held its annual general membership meeting with John Barr, vice president of the Washington County Commissioners, swearing in new members of the board of directors and advisory council....Tags: Health Insurance, Physical Conditions, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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W. Kennedy Cromwell III, foreign service officer
W. Kennedy Cromwell III, a retired foreign service officer who spent the majority of his 32-year career in Africa, died Dec. 13 from complications of a stroke at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville.
The former Washington and Annapolis...Tags: Colleges and Universities, England, Grinnell College, Uganda, Heads of State
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Carnival to review safety, emergency response on all its lines
Updated 5:40 p.m. Latest statement from Carnival Corp. Carnival Corporation & plc Announces Comprehensive Audit and Review of Safety and Emergency Response Across All Its Cruise Lines (received 5:32 p.m.) MIAMI – January 19, 2012 –...
Tags: Costa Concordia Shipwreck, Tour Operations Industry, Italy, Health, Economy, Business and Finance
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Seniors give their thanks together at Calexico Thanksgiving event
Staff WriterCALEXICO — Carlos Noriega said he enjoys this time of the year, when he can show gratitude for his time on earth. “I get to give thanks to God because I’m 81, so every day is special now. I’m thankful for God giving us an extra...Tags: Thanksgiving, Holidays
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