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The Nunavut Health Care Plan (Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᑦ ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᓕᐊᖅᑐᕐᓯᐅᑎᑦ, French: Régime d’assurance-maladie du Nunavut) is the ...
Medicaid is a government program in the United States that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a significant ...
Qikiqtani General Hospital (QGH) is a 35-bed acute care hospital in the Nunavut territorial capital of Iqaluit on Baffin Island. [1] It is also the sole hospital in the territory. [ 2 ] The first hospital, the Baffin Regional Hospital , was constructed in 1962, and a new hospital, the Qikiqtani General Hospital replaced the older one in 2007. [ 3 ]
Home and Community-Based Services waivers (HCBS waivers) or Section 1915(c) waivers, 42 U.S.C. Ch. 7, § 1396n §§ 1915(c), are a type of Medicaid waiver. HCBS waivers expand the types of settings in which people can receive comprehensive long-term care under Medicaid.
CBHSSJB is also a small press that publishes Indigenous-focused health materials, such as diabetes pamphlets [6] [7] and Indigenous health-focussed books: two of many examples are The Sweet Bloods of the Eeyou Istchee: Stories of Diabetes and the James Bay Cree, [8] The gift of healing : health problems and their treatments (out of print). [9]
In 2013, Western Connecticut Health Network announced plans to lay off 116 workers in response to state budget cuts. The Danbury Nurses Union voted 96% to reject a proposal to eliminate evening and weekend shift differentials in order to save the jobs of twenty-five nurses, arguing that the hospitals should cut executive pay and use the $35m ...
SustiNet is a Connecticut health care plan passed into law in July 2009. [1] Its goal was to provide affordable health care coverage to 98% of Connecticut residents by 2014. [1] The name SustiNet derives from the motto of the State of Connecticut: "Qui transtulit sustinet." (Latin: "[He] Who Transplanted [Still] Sustains").
The foundation was incorporated in 2000. It opened its first offices in New Haven, Connecticut. In January 2003, Juan Figueroa, a former Connecticut legislator, [5] became foundation president. In 2004, the foundation changed its name to reflect a final separation from the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut.