Panelists will discuss the root causes of racial disparities in local policing and health care, and actions that should be taken to create systemic change.
Health care
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Who is essential? The underappreciated and overlooked.
To some extent, we are all essential. Collectively, we make the world go round. But there are degrees of indispensability.
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Cuomo’s budget proposes legalizing cannabis, trimming Medicaid spending
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s $178.6 billion budget proposal, which he released Tuesday, also includes his plans of how to deal with the state’s $6 billion dollar budget deficit.
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URMC plans orthopedic campus at Marketplace Mall
There are big expansion plans in the works for The Marketplace Mall, but they don’t include the addition of any big-box store or other retailers. Instead, the University of Rochester, the town of Henrietta and Wilmorite have announced plans for a new tenant —UR Medicine’s Orthopedics and Physical Performance Center. The 330,000-square-foot facility would include […]
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County to tackle hospital billing backlog
Monroe Community Hospital has amassed $3.9 million in outstanding patient bills – debts that the county is now trying to settle by hiring an accounting firm that promises to recoup a third of what is owed. The situation came to light when Democratic county legislators at a Ways and Means Committee meeting of the legislature […]
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Trump’s Big Ball of Awful
President Donald Trump’s first week in office was just as bad as we suspected it could be, and probably worse.
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Global health hits close to home
High rates of infant mortality and mothers dying during childbirth remain formidable problems in the developing world, where resources are limited. Roughly 150,000 women die during childbirth every year just in Sub-Saharan Africa. But two medical professionals with ties to Rochester have created a health care model that seems to counter the trend. The approach […]
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Childhood trauma shown to have long-lasting impact
Acing an exam is usually a good thing, but when it involves research into adverse childhood experiences, it’s a very different matter. These experiences can have serious consequences on children’s performance in school. About 200 health and education professionals met today at Monroe Community College to learn more about ACE research, exposure to childhood trauma, […]
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UR students serve the uninsured
About two dozen men and women fought through an early March snowstorm to get something that many people take for granted: medical care. They filed downstairs to the basement of Asbury First United Methodist Church in southeast Rochester, where the University of Rochester and church officials have set up a small health clinic. The examination […]
