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In summary California counties regularly take the Social Security benefits of foster youth who are disabled or whose parents have died. Advocates say it amounts to children paying for their own foster care. Improving our democracy, together. $34,660 raised towards our $50,000 goal Lea este artículo en español. When she was 15 and had been a ward of the courts for half her life, Kristina Tanner learned the cost of her stays in group homes and with foster families was coming out of her own pocket.  She had qualified for monthly survivor benefits checks, a Social Security program for children whose parents had died. Instead of the hundreds of dollars a month going to her or toward savings, it went to Butte County, she said, to cove...

Ten hospitals or health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Job listings were compiled from job-seeker websites. 1. Christiana Care Health Systems, based in Wilmington, Del., seeks a billing manager in Newark, Del..  2. Embry Health, based in Tempe, Ariz., seeks a revenue cycle management manager in Chandler, Ariz.  3. Emory Healthcare, based in Atlanta, seeks a revenue cycle specialist.  4. Intermountain Healthcare, based in Salt Lake City, seeks a revenue cycle director in Layton, Utah.  5. Jennie Stuart Health, based in Hopkinsville, Ky., seeks a revenue cycle specialist.  6. Revere Health, based in Provo, Utah, seeks a revenue cycle supervisor.  7. Sturdy Memorial Hospital, based in Attleboro, Mass., seeks a revenue cycle systems analyst.  8. University of Colorado Medicine, based in Aurora, seeks a healthcare revenue cycl...

Brucellosis is a common zoonotic infection endemic to certain areas of the Mediterranean, Middle East, Central America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. We present a case of brucellosis in a patient who recently traveled to Grenada and returned to the United States with a wide degree of symptoms. This case explores the etiology, clinical presentation, investigation, and treatment of brucellosis. Though a patient's clinical presentation may be non-specific, the recognition of potential etiologies may aid in empirically treating the infection prior to laboratory confirmation. Introduction Brucellosis (also coined Mediterranean fever, Malta fever, or undulant fever) is transmitted by the bacteria of the genus Brucella . It is a common zoonotic infection endemic to countries of the Mediterranean, Middle East, Central America, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Sub-Saharan Africa [1,2]. Transmission occurs from animals to humans by ingestion of unpasteurized dairy products, co...

As the world continues to wrestle with the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists believe they've solved the 700-year-old mystery of the world's deadliest pandemic: Black Death. The journal Nature this month published new research that says biological evidence suggests Black Death originated in Central Asia in a location now known as Kyrgyzstan. And they believe it's the granddaddy of the plagues that have followed. The paper's co-author, Phil Slavin, who is a historian at the University of Stirling in Scotland, told NPR that the region "gave rise to the majority of (modern plague) strains circulating in the world today." "Our study puts to rest one of the biggest and most fascinating questions in history and determines when and where the single most notorious and infamous killer of humans began," Slavin said in a news release on the study. Black Death was the first wave of a plague that lasted close to 500 years and killed roughly 50 million people i...

Share on Pinterest Landscape at Toktogul Reservoir and river Naryn in the Tien Shan or heavenly mountains in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Black Death plague killed millions of people over the course of 500 years. Its point of origin has been debated and misattributed ever since, according to a new study. The study narrows down the Black Death's emergence to two ancient graveyards in modern-day Kyrgyzstan. People naturally don't like waiting for answers to troubling questions, and the recent rush to pinpoint the origin of SARS-CoV-2 — and to assign blame for the pandemic — is a case in point. However, science takes time. Sometimes a long time. A new study, for example, finally pinpoints the source of the 500-year bubonic plague, more widely known as the Black Death , that broke out nearly 700 years ago. The study traced the origin of the Black Death to a pair of cemeteries in the Chüy Valley near Lake Issyk-K...

The last two years forced millions of people to engage with their healthcare provider digitally for the first time: telehealth use, for example, has increased 38x since pre-pandemic. Today, many healthcare organizations recognize the potential for digital solutions like mobile apps to improve care delivery and transform the patient experience. But there's a lot of open water between recognizing potential and launching an app that actually makes people's lives better. Key to getting it right is defining how the app will impact business-level goals. Here are five steps to defining business goals for a mobile healthcare app. 1. Identify internal stakeholders A patient-facing mobile app will affect lots of people: providers, front-desk workers, the IT team, pharmacists, patients, etc. Which of these groups should be involved in defining business goals? And who's responsible for filtering input and making decisions? Further, it's important to determine whether you...

Abstract Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) is marked for elimination of transmission by 2030, but the disease persists in several low-income countries. We couple transmission and health outcomes models to examine the cost-effectiveness of four gHAT elimination strategies in five settings – spanning low- to high-risk – of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Alongside passive screening in fixed health facilities, the strategies include active screening at average or intensified coverage levels, alone or with vector control with a scale-back algorithm when no cases are reported for three consecutive years. In high or moderate-risk settings, costs of gHAT strategies are primarily driven by active screening and, if used, vector control. Due to the cessation of active screening and vector control, most investments (75-80%) are made by 2030 and vector control might be cost-saving while ensuring elimination of transmission. In low-risk settings, costs are driven by passive screening...