A $220,383 grant will help the town of New Site in Tallapoosa County expand its health clinic and add more medical services.
Advocates gathered at the Alabama State House urging lawmakers to reconsider their long-held reluctance to expand Medicaid, saying the decision is hurting both working families and health care providers.
People who are ages 60+ now have access to a brand new state-of-the-art healthcare center in Montgomery.
The Wellness Coalition is offering a year-long program to help people avoid type 2 diabetes.
Medical facilities across the state are having trouble hiring and retaining physicians, forcing many healthcare facilities in Alabama to operate with fewer doctors, and essentially providing less patient care.
Two Alabama doctors have traded in the blue or green scrubs that they’d normally wear around the hospital, for a pair of black scrubs. They are calling on other doctors to do the same, in the name of unity. Montgomery doctor Brian Richardson and Dr. Jeff Nix of Birmingham are calling the gesture “Black Scrubs for Black Lives”. The pair…
Alabama is seeking to put a work requirement on a small number of Medicaid recipients. Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said Thursday that the state will seek permission from the federal government to make the change to its Medicaid program. The proposal only impacts able-bodied parents of children under 19 who qualify for Medicaid because their family income is at or…
Nonpartisan analysts project that 14 million people would lose coverage next year under the House bill dismantling former President Barack Obama’s health care law. The estimate is a blow to Republicans. Monday’s estimate by the Congressional Budget Office says the number of uninsured would grow to 24 million by 2026. The projections give fuel to opponents who warn the measure…
