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Delaware lawmakers are poised to pass the most dramatic reform to health care in decades, despite the latest hourslong hearing on the matter in which doctors, nurses and health care administrators packed the tight confines of the Legislative Hall to protest the plan.

What the impact of House Bill 350 – which proposes to create a government panel to oversee hospital spending – will be upon passage remains up for debate.

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Nearly 600,000 Florida kids shed from government health care, study says

TALLAHASSEE — Nearly 600,000 Florida children lost their government-provided health insurance last year after the federal government ended the national COVID-related health emergency, more than any other state except Texas, according to a newly released report by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families .

The report, a national study of how states shed children from Medicaid after the federal government lifted a hold that blocked them from dropping these patients during the pandemic, found that Florida lost 589,671 children in state-run government health insurance programs from April to December.

Total enrollment for children in April 2023 was 3,093,191. By

New law brings more mental health care to schools

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – A new law could bring more mental health care to schools.

Now, marriage and family therapists can get a license through the state Department of Public Instruction so school districts can directly hire them. Before, they could only work in schools through a third party.

“Mental health needs of children continue to increase and we are seeing a lot more need just in general. Every level of support we can offer to students is needed,” Samaritan Counseling’s Wellness Screen Director Amy D’Addario said.

According to Samaritan, more than 65% of students reported struggling with depression

Ascension hospitals hit by cyberattack; investigating data breaches

Ascension hospitals in Michigan and across the US were hit Wednesday by a cyberattack that disrupted its computer network which continued to affect its clinical operations Thursday morning, leading the non-profit, St. Louis-based health system to urge its business partners to server online connections to its system.

“We detected unusual activity on select technology network systems, which we now believe is due to a cyber security event,” Ascension said in a statement posted on its website. “At this time we continue to investigate the situation. We responded immediately, initiated our investigation and activated our remediation efforts. Access to some systems

Attacks on Health Care Bi-Monthly News Brief: 06-19 March 2024 – Sudan

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World Health Workers Week 2024
For World Health Workers Week (WHWW), April 1 – 7**, **join Insecurity Insight – together, we must raise awareness of attacks on health workers in conflict and call for urgent action from policymakers to prevent future attacks and hold perpetrators accountable. On April 3, SHCC chair Len Rubenstein will be speaking during the ‘Supporting and Safeguarding Health Workers Globally’ event. Register here.

Humanitarian Network and Practice Week 2024
Ensuring access to health care through community support and better security risk management for hospitals in the DRC.
The panel will discuss the learning from