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The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, but the new contractor has its own ...
Nurses and other health care staff in Iowa’s state-run prison system would be employed by a private company under a request for proposal that the state will release soon.
Medical workers at state prisons could soon be employed by a private contractor in a move the Iowa Department of Corrections ...
Katz, the executive director of the independent prison monitor the John Howard Association, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the state of Illinois changing its prison health care provider.
Trump’s $50 billion boost for rural health care aims to offset deep Medicaid cuts, but experts and hospital leaders warn the ...
One world issue that’s likely to become a talking point is the Israel-Hamas war, given IL-09 has a highly concentrated Jewish population along with its large Middle Eastern and Asian populations, too.
More than 1.5 million Texans could lose their health insurance as changes to the Affordable Care Act loom in the wake of the ...
Hospital officials in Illinois say they will have to make some difficult decisions in the next few years that could involve laying off staff, cutting back services and even closing some facilities ...
Across Illinois, 3.4 million people are on Medicaid — about one-fourth of the state’s population.
Budget - SB 2510 (Welch/Sims) created the fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget appropriation bill. The budget is based on ...
"The costs to Illinois’ government because of the new Republican congressional budget reconciliation law will be steep.
Democrats are using a Louisiana town hall to preview one of their main strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House ...