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Although not expected to be a permanent solution to pressures facing rural America, policymakers and hospital operators hope a new CMS program will slow the financial bleeding that continues to shutter those communities’ hospitals.

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Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - March 13, 2025

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Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - August 2, 2022

A new and developing force in medicine will add a new set of dramatic changes: the force of consumerism. No longer will you, as a patient, be willing to be “patient.”

Meet the Bipartisan Dallas Fort Worth Representatives Pushing Bill for Air Conditioning in Texas Prisons

Dr Jeff Livingston - May 23, 2021

A bipartisan Democratic and Republican coalition of representatives from the Dallas Fort Worth area is fighting for prison reform. Their bill requiring Texas prisons to install air conditioning in all facilities is making its way through congress.

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