Health firm wins award (Deseret Morning News)
South Davis Home Health has been presented with the 2008 HealthInsight Quality Award for demonstrating high-quality health care and excellence in performance on publicly reported quality of care measures and other specified quality markers.
Potomac Fever: Hatch urges Iowa to lead U.S. on health care changes (The Des Moines Register)
Iowa state Sen. Jack Hatch was here in the nation s capital earlier this month for a legislators conference on health care reform. Hatch, a Des Moines Democrat, helped drive a law increasing state spending $25 million over three years for children s health care.
How California budget deadlock affects health care (The Sacramento Bee)
A south Sacramento pharmacist says he’ll stop accepting new Medi-Cal patients starting Tuesday because the state will begin paying him 10 percent less for their prescriptions not enough to cover the cost of drugs. Aide Greg Johnson, center, supports Jane Maxon, 72, as he helps her walk during physical therapy at Robertson Adult Day Health Care. The center provides medical services for …
Counties hope to recoup inmates’ health costs (Chicago Tribune)
Cook, Will press U.S to shoulder the expense Chicago-area county leaders are hoping to funnel millions of tax dollars into local projects by recouping money they now spend on health care for inmates in county jails.
U.N. health agency to open Baghdad headquarters (CNN.com)
The World Health Organization, one of United Nations’ most important agencies, is opening a permanent office in Baghdad, a move that underscores recent security improvements in Iraq’s capital.
Health care gets area voices (Northwest Herald)
McHENRY Residents struggling with health care access are invited to tell their stories to a state representative Saturday during a hearing about a universal health care bill for Illinois.
Study: Houston among cities feeling health care pinch (Houston Chronicle)
Houston is one of a number of U.S. cities increasingly burdened by the federal government’s failure to tackle the nation’s health care problems, according to a new report.
UK, Hong Kong health alert after TB death: report (AFP via Yahoo! News)
British and Hong Kong health authorities are urgently tracing people who came into contact with a woman who died of TB after flying home from the Chinese city, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Health Highlights: June 28, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: