June 28, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EDT Women and girls wait in a corridor in the district hospital of Shindand in Afghanistan’s Herat province on May 30. (Elise Blanchard for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment SHINDAND, Afghanistan — In the U.S.-built district hospital of Shindand in western Afghanistan, […]
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Minnesota hoping to fill 45,000 open health care jobs to prevent crisis
MINNEAPOLIS — A better-than-expected jobs report shows U.S. employers added 339,000 jobs in May. That’s the best growth since January, with gains in construction, leisure and hospitality, and health care. But Minnesota’s workforce agencies are making a push to fill tens of thousands of open health care jobs, hoping to […]
Families struggle to bring home babies as home healthcare crisis continues
ALBERTVILLE, Minn. — Next to toys and books, there are medications and care charts for baby Elin Anderson who burst onto the scene early. “She was only 13.1 ounces, 10 inches long. You could hold her in your hand,” said Jill Anderson. “She’s had 12 surgeries, thousands of blood draws, blood […]
Britain’s NHS was once idolized. Now its worst-ever crisis is fueling a boom in private health care
London CNN — Tens of thousands of nurses and nearly 12,000 ambulance workers went on strike Monday over pay and working conditions in the biggest walkout in the 75-year history of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). Escalating industrial action comes after years of falling wages, stretched budgets and staff shortages […]
NHS crisis: Why is Britain’s health service falling apart?
London CNN — Most winters, headlines warn that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is at “breaking point.” The alarms sound over and over and over again. But the current crisis has set warning bells ringing louder than before. “This time feels different,” said Peter Neville, a doctor who has worked […]
Health care is in crisis. New York’s nurses strike is just the latest sign
New York CNN — Naniaka Camara grew up near Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx in New York and remembers going there for her own medical care. A Montefiore nurse for the past three years, she still lives only minutes from the hospital and often knows the patients from her neighborhood […]
Emergency room death highlights Canadian healthcare crisis | Canada
When Allison Holthoff entered a crowded Nova Scotia hospital at the end of December, the intense pain in her abdomen worsened with each hour she spent waiting for treatment. With the emergency room under renovations, overwhelmed staff triaged a stream of incoming patients in a makeshift treatment area. “‘I feel […]
Five million cancelling gym memberships as rising prices threaten ‘health and fitness crisis’
Money worries mean millions of Britons are cancelling their gym and sports club memberships, new polling data suggests. And experts fear the figures, shared exclusively with i, mean the cost of living crisis is evolving into a British health and fitness disaster. The YouGov poll found that 10 per cent […]
Peer support can help address the mental health crisis.
This essay includes quotes from You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health―With Advice from Experts and Wisdom From Real People and Families by Ken Duckworth MD (Zando, September 2022). As part of her release from a psychiatric hospital after years of incarceration and hospitalization, Kimberly Comer […]
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta tackles mental health crisis
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta taking major step in mental health Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is taking a monumental step forward in helping children with behavioral and mental health needs. They’ll soon have a new center to help them tackle the mental health crisis in kids. ATLANTA – Children’s Healthcare of […]
How One Fitness Enthusiast Is Tackling the Navajo Diabetes Crisis
From Men’s Health LOREN ANTHONY’S BACKYARD gym keeps growing. Early this year, he had a few wooden beams. When summer ended, he had railroad ties, chains, and crates, MacGyver-ing them together for deadlifts and shoulder presses. The 37-year-old grits out a workout session nearly every day, often uploading clips to […]