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More CA Docs Making ‘House Calls’ To The Homeless
By CALmatters
Homeless people who live outdoors die, on average, three decades earlier. In California locales, “street medicine” teams are trying to improve those odds.
Dr. Coley King of the Venice Family Clinic is one of a growing number of medical professionals making house calls to people who are homeless.
Instead of trying to power wash the problem away, California’s hospitals, public health departments and homeless service organizations are increasingly sending trained health practitioners into homeless encampments in a quest to improve health outcomes for individual homeless people.
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Chinatown: Protestors Demonstrate Outside ICE Office, Inside Bus Station
Members of the Philadelphia Workers Solidarity Network protested outside the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency office at 114 N. Eighth St on Saturday, Sept. 14, .
The target of the protest was not just the ICE office, but Pomegranate Real Estate, who leases the 35,000 square foot office to the agency, and the Greyhound bus terminal at 10th and Filbert streets, who the group believes has been complicit in excessive ICE enforcement strategies.
Marta Guttenberg said she was inspired to attend the protest because of the treatment Ismail Ajjawi, a Palestinian-born student accepted to college in the United States experienced at the hands of ICE.
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How Do You Get Kids To Eat School Lunch? Detroit District Will Give Food Trucks A Try
By Chalkbeat Detroit
The Detroit school district plans to hand out lunch from food trucks in an effort to get students to eat more nutritious foods.
Two food trucks will circulate between high schools in the Detroit Public Schools Community District, bringing students food that isn’t offered in the cafeteria. The meals will be prepared onboard the trucks.
The cost of the trucks — $307,000 — will be covered by a grant from the federal school lunch program. The district is buying the trucks from a Michigan-based company, Food Truck Shop.
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AZ Companies Give New Life To Discarded Building Materials
By Cronkite News
Doorknobs overflow rows of boxes, piles of miscellaneous wood and squares of carpet lay neatly on the floor. Light fixtures hang from various shelves – all of it discarded construction and demolition waste.
A 2015 Environmental Protection Agency fact sheet on construction and demolition waste found more than 545 million tons of debris ended up in landfills every year, even though 75% of those materials had the potential for reuse.
Companies like the nonprofit Stardust Building Supplies are working to stop waste from ending up in landfills by providing deconstruction services and selling discounted building materials at two warehouses in Mesa and Glendale.
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New Round Of Medicare Readmission Penalties Hits 2,583 U.S. Hospitals
By Kaiser Health News
Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals Tuesday, continuing the Affordable Care Act’s eight-year campaign to financially pressure hospitals into reducing the number of patients who return for a second stay within a month.
The severity and broad application of the penalties, which Medicare estimates will cost hospitals $563 million over a year, follows the trend of the past few years. Of the 3,129 general hospitals evaluated in the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, 83% received a penalty, which will be deducted from each payment for a Medicare patient stay over the fiscal year that begins today.
Although Medicare began applying the penalties in 2012, disagreements continue about whether they have improved patient safety. On the positive side, they have encouraged hospitals to focus on how their patients recuperate, and some now assist them in procuring medications and follow-up appointments.
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