Katheryn Houghton, Kaiser Health News
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In a neighborhood near the mining town of Butte, many people have a hard time believing the air they are breathing is safe.
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Mike Randol took over May 31 as head of Montana’s Medicaid program, which serves 280,000 people who live in low-income households or have disabilities in a state of 1.1 million people. The program has a roughly $2.3 billion annual budget, with the federal government picking up about 80% of the total.
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Abortion politics have created a power struggle over the administration of federal family planning dollars in conservative-leaning states.
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A year after a new Montana law stripped local health boards of their rulemaking authority, confusion and power struggles are creating a patchwork oversight system that may change how public health is administered long after the pandemic is over.
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As the midterm election season ramps up, the Biden administration wants rural Americans to know it’ll be spending a lot of money to improve health care in rural areas.
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Paramedics are hard to come by, and a long-standing workforce shortage has been exacerbated by turnover and resignations related to pandemic burnout.
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Montana State Hospital’s forensic facility, which evaluates and treats patients in the criminal justice system, has always had a waitlist, but the pandemic has lengthened it.
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Not a single project has begun despite the omicron surge that led to a new outbreak of COVID cases among Montana State Prison inmates in January. That delay has left weak points within Montana’s secure facilities.
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In a few short months, states have gone from donating surplus rapid COVID-19 tests to states with shortages to hoarding them as demand driven by the spike in cases strains supplies.
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For the first time, Little Shell members will have guaranteed access to health services — and see their culture reflected in the offerings.