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Health insurance can present barriers to care. Some physicians are choosing to open clinics that charge membership fees instead.
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Missouri had the 4th highest rate in the country of residents taking benzodiazepines, and that was before the pandemic amped up anxiety.
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Mayor Tishaura Jones, state Rep. Kimberly-Ann Collins and Alderwoman Dwinderlin Evans say they agree with residents that naming a small hospital for Homer G. Phillips threatens his legacy.
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Some north St. Louis residents are against a plan to name a new medical building Homer G. Phillips Hospital. They say the three-bed facility built by developer Paul McKee isn’t fit to be named after the training hospital that served the Black community for decades.
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The ransomware group known as Hive has stolen confidential patient information from Sikeston-based Missouri Delta Medical Center, including Social Security numbers and medical information.
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In northeast Missouri, where low populations translate into small hospitals, there were no ICU beds available.
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Conservative legislators don’t want to renew a tax on health care providers unless they can get amendments they say are “pro-life” added.
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A traveling medical clinic is expanding its reach to better meet the need in rural areas of eastern Missouri. The Rural Parish Clinic’s team of volunteer doctors and nurses treat low-income, uninsured adults out of a 40-foot converted van.
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The current version of the state budget does not include funding for the voter-approved Medicaid expansion.
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More than 23,000 veterans in the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Healthcare system have received one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and more than 15,000 of them are fully vaccinated. VA officials say they expect to vaccinate 80% of veterans by late June. They credit the strong relationships doctors have with their patients.