Health

Is addiction a disease?

By Brandon Ferdig, New Plateaus

With all the reality TV such as “My Strange Addiction”, ”Celebrity Rehab”, and “Hoarders”, there’s never been a time when addiction has been more widely observed.

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CMS document cache #3 released by HHS

By Matt Ehling, Public Record Media

On March 28, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released 837 pages of documents in response to a FOIA lawsuit that PRM filed in federal court late last year.

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Health care proposals go under the knife, move to the House floor

By Susan Hegarty, Session Weekly/Session Daily

At first blush, HF1233 appears to be Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget proposals for the Health and Human Services departments. Perhaps that’s because the House Health and Human Services Finance Division used the governor’s plan as a starting block.

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Monitoring of hospital nursing ratios measure passes House

By Susan Hegarty, Session Weekly/Session Daily

Hospitals would be required to file a staffing plan with the Minnesota Hospital Association and a working group at the Department of Health would study whether nurse staffing levels have any effect on patient outcomes, under a bill passed by the House Wednesday.

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Service animals clarified as dogs

By Lee Ann Schutz Wahi, Session Weekly/Session Daily

Service animals help those with disabilities navigate through their day-to-day activities. Under law, it is an unfair discriminatory practice to prohibit these animals from being in a public place.

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MN VIDEOS | Right to Know Minnesota

By Christine Huff, SPNN

With no movement on the national level regarding labeling gentically modified organisms, states have taken to doing the work themselves. SPNN Doc U participant Christine Huff produced this short documentary on the Minnesota movement of Right to Know.

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Advocates for needy say bipartisan support emerging for increased spending

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

A possible amendment to the health and human services budget that has been bandied about by some members of the House Health and Human Services Finance Committee this week would raise grants to families with children for the first time in 27 years. (Courtesy of MN Senate Media Services)

Despite recent DFL leadership calls at the Legislature for $150 million in cuts in the proposed health and human services budget, there appears to be a bipartisan effort afoot to increase assistance for needy Minnesota families.

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Both Fairview merger proposals axed

By Emma Nelson and Kia Farhang, The Minnesota Daily

Amid controversy and concern from all sides, proposals from both Sanford Health and the University of Minnesota to merge with Fairview Health Services were nixed Wednesday.

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Why is state health and human services spending growing so fast?

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

House Speaker Paul Thissen: “It’s going to swallow up our entire budget.” (MinnPost photo by James Nord)

Getting a grasp on state budget numbers is at least as mind-boggling for most of us as trying to understand just how far Earth is from the sun -- 93 million miles, btw.

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Legislature aims to prevent Sanford-Fairview merger with three proposed bills

By Branden Largent and Cody Nelson, The Minnesota Daily

State legislators proposed bills Monday to intervene in the Fairview Health Services merger talks.

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