Healthcare
Walgreens expands into chronic-illness care
Nurse practitioner Ruth Wiley examines Elizabeth Knowles at a Walgreens Take Care Clinic in Indianapolis. The clinics are expanding the scope of services offered. Walgreens has 330 clinics offering the new services.
Walgreens expands into chronic-illness care
Walgreens, the largest U.S. drugstore chain, is expanding into treatment of diabetes, asthma and other chronic illnesses to lure new customers including millions gaining insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Doctors disagree on AHCCCS expansion
A 50-year-old Tucson man had lost his job after a heart attack. He needed a new battery for his defibrillator, but had no access to health care.
Pima County moves toward self-insured health benefit model
Pima County is moving to a self-insurance model for its employees' health benefits, which could save taxpayers money in the long run.
Northwest briefs
MHC Healthcare names new director
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“The party of capitalism must become the party of social insurance, for capitalism’s own sake.”
Blog: Movie screening with Dr. Weil on Friday
A film that features Tucson author and integrative medicine expert Dr. Andrew Weil is scheduled to open at 7 p.m. this Friday at The Loft Cinema in Tucson.
Hospital coming to Green Valley
Residents of the Green Valley and Sahuarita area will at long last get a hospital and an emergency room, TMC says.
Arizona hospice agrees to $3.7M fine for false Medicare claims
PHOENIX — Federal authorities say an Arizona hospice has agreed to pay $3.7 million to resolve civil allegations that the company submitted false claims to Medicare.
Free health fair on Tucson's south side
New Life Community Resource Center, 5245 S. 12th Ave., is hosting a free health fair from 9 a.m. to noon today.
Union fights for home care pay raise
When Pima County got out of the home health business last year, leaders promised that workers who joined a private company would get the same pay and benefits.
Health center braces for state cuts
With up to 10 percent of its indigent patients expected to lose medical coverage, Arizona's largest community health center is facing the biggest financial challenge in its 41-year history.
New US health coverage sees scant enrollment
WASHINGTON - It's a centerpiece of President Obama's health-care remake, a lifeline now available to people whose medical problems have made them uninsurable.
PCC gets $18.5M for health-jobs classes
Pima Community College has won an $18.5 million federal grant to help welfare recipients and other low-income people train for health-care jobs.
Pima seen as key to Prop. 106 campaign
Politicking began in Tucson on Thursday for a general election ballot proposition that backers tout as protecting individuals from mandates in the new federal health-care law.
Status of health-care overhaul uncertain as House vote nears
WASHINGTON - The House's chief Democratic head-counter said Sunday that he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Obama's health-care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects.
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