Scotland Health Care System celebrates construction milestone

Jul. 18—LAURINBURG — Scotland County Health Care System officials and staff and construction workers and representatives with the Christman Company celebrated a major construction milestone Tuesday morning, the placing of the top-most steel beam on Scotland Memorial Hospital's latest expansion.The act was part of a topping-out ceremony held at the construction site where Scotland Health is investing more than $45 million in expansion and renovations at the hospital. Last year, the system's board of trustees voted unanimously to approve expanding the Imaging Department, building new Operating Rooms, and renovating the Surgical Services Department.The Christman Company is the construction manager of…

The Power of Time – PHE America

(Article 3 of 5) Dr. Aubrey Shaw [right] with her mentor, Dr. Sharon Stoll[5-Part Article Series] People with physical disabilities hold limited positions as scholars, teachers, or leaders in physical education, recreation, and sports. Perhaps the reason is that the field is flooded with able-bodied people who think they know best. But do they? Michael Oliver, imminent writer, and scholar argued that people with physical disabilities should be the only ones in the field of disability studies because they have a bodily experience with disabilities. The following five-part article series shares the perspective of a scholar in the field of…

Potential home health care crises

Fred Kocher, NH Business host NH Business: Potential home health care crisis Fred Kocher is joined by Borja Alvarez de Toledo to discuss how Waypoint can avoid a July 1 shutdown of their home care services Updated: 7:40 AM EDT May 28, 2023 Hide Transcripts Show Transcripts Welcome to New Hampshire's Business. I'm Fred Coker following up on *** story by news nine last week, one of New Hampshire's largest and oldest human service and child charitable organizations is facing *** potential crisis. Here's *** statement from my guest organization, we're starting *** crisis and we need help. We're staring…

More than a quarter of DACA recipients are uninsured as they await the fate of health care rules

More than a quarter of young immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program lack health insurance and face burdens preventing them from accessing care, according to new data first shared with NBC News.A report published Friday by the immigrant rights nonprofit group National Immigration Law Center, documenting the findings of a recent survey, found that 27% of DACA recipients reported not being covered by any kind of health insurance or other health care plan.The results suggest that of the more than 580,000 young adults without legal status who are allowed to work and study without fear of…