HEALTH
Pennsylvania’s new student vaccination rules should be in place for next school year
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Pennsylvania parents will need to take vaccinations more seriously before the next school year begins or else their child won’t be able to go to class.
DEVELOPING PITTSBURGH
Audit: PA has been giving food stamps to dead people
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Pennsylvania taxpayers paid nearly $700,000 in public benefits to 2,324 people who had already died. And that was only what auditors found in one year between July 2013 and June 2014.
HEALTH
Study: Disclosing medical errors to patients is a tough thing for doctors
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"If the first rule of health care is 'Do no harm,' then we're failing."
HEALTH
State psychiatric beds are disappearing, and that could cost the United States billions of dollars
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Health The number of state hospital beds dedicated to psychiatric care has dropped to record lows, even as the criminal justice system utilizes them more for inmate care.
HEALTH
A new tactic to fight the opioid crisis: Database that allows PA doctors to monitor prescription abuse
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As part of Pennsylvania’s fight against the ongoing opioid crisis, the state just implemented a new drug monitoring program to track the prescription drug purchase history of individuals.
HEALTH
Group lobbies for progress on bills that would cut red tape between Pennsylvania nurse practitioners and physicians
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Two bills aimed at ending the mandatory cooperation between Pennsylvania’s nurse practitioners and medical doctors are stalled in legislative committees in both the state House and Senate.
HEALTH
Audit finds almost no oversight of state prescription assistance program
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Problems with a state program that provides low-income seniors with help on their prescription bills include no-bid contracts and almost zero oversight, according to an audit released this week by Auditor General Eugene DePasquale.
HEALTH
Local VA involved in another Legionnaire’s lawsuit
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Another person who says he was a victim of the Legionnaire’s outbreak at the Oakland Veterans Affairs Hospital filed a lawsuit on Tuesday.
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania state salaries 2015
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PublicSource wants you to know how your tax dollars are being spent. We believe it’s important to make the salaries of city, county and state employees easy for you to find because there are taxpayer dollars at stake.
ENVIRONMENT
Bill would enhance oversight for lead in water systems
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In response to the lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan, two Michigan senators plan to introduce a bill that would require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to notify residents of dangerous lead levels in their water if state and local authorities fail to do so within 15 days.
