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    $4.3B to cover Medicaid patients twice
    Opinion, Сolumns
    $4.3B to cover Medicaid patients twice
    Apr 07, 2025
    States and the federal government spent $4.3 billion on Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of patients who were already insured in other states, accor...
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    Congress, support efforts that combat obesity
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Congress, support efforts that combat obesity
    DR. STUART SHAPIRO The Center Square 
    Apr 03, 2025
    As the old saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and in my decades of experience in healthcare that absolutely rings true. T...
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    Pa.’s nursing homes will not survive without Medicaid
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Pa.’s nursing homes will not survive without Medicaid
    MATTHEW YARNELL Pennsylvania Capital-Star 
    Apr 01, 2025
    When COVID-19 first tore through our nursing homes five years ago, I’ll never forget seeing the photo Shanrika Nelson, a certified nursing assistant a...
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    Olean General Hospital receives Primary Stroke Center certification from DNV
    Business, Local News, News
    Olean General Hospital receives Primary Stroke Center certification from DNV
    Apr 01, 2025
    OLEAN, N.Y. — Olean General Hospital (OGH), a Kaleida Health facility, announced it has received certification from DNV as a Primary Stroke Center. OG...
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    Penn Highlands Healthcare physician testifies on emerging technology
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    Penn Highlands Healthcare physician testifies on emerging technology
    Mar 27, 2025
    DuBOIS — Dr. Trina Abla, system chief medical officer at Penn Highlands Healthcare, testified recently during a public hearing of the Senate Majority ...
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    Legislators examine, address rural healthcare
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    Legislators examine, address rural healthcare
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 21, 2025
    Pennsylvania’s elected officials are examining — and addressing, to some extent — the trending topic of rural healthcare access. At a recent public he...
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    Grant helps secure new surgical technology
    Business, Local News, News
    Grant helps secure new surgical technology
    Mar 20, 2025
    DuBOIS — Through a $150,000 grant from the A.J. and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust, Penn Highlands Healthcare has a new state-of-the-art operatin...
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    Addressing Pa.’s nursing shortage to support rural health care
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Addressing Pa.’s nursing shortage to support rural health care
    DR. EDMUND SABANEGH 
    Mar 19, 2025
    The Guthrie Clinic has proudly provided access to high-quality care throughout rural Pennsylvania and New York. As president and CEO of this system, I...
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    Social Security Matters: Can paying Medicare premium be avoided?
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Can paying Medicare premium be avoided?
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Mar 14, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: Is there any way I can get out of paying the $185/month I am told will be taken out of my Social Security for Medicare Part B when I turn ...
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    DUBOIS: Penn Highlands Healthcare opens specialty pharmacy
    Business, Local News, News
    DUBOIS: Penn Highlands Healthcare opens specialty pharmacy
    Mar 07, 2025
    DuBOIS — Leaders from Penn Highlands Healthcare joined members of the Greater DuBois Chamber of Commerce this week to cut the ribbon marking the offic...
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    House wary of unavoidable, unpredictable Medicaid costs
    Local News, News, PA State News
    House wary of unavoidable, unpredictable Medicaid costs
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Mar 05, 2025
    HARRISBURG — In over five hours of questioning, House lawmakers drilled down on a vast array of issues under the purview of Pennsylvania's largest - a...
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    Faced with exploding costs, Pa. seeks clampdown on Medicaid-funded use of Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs
    News, PA State News
    Faced with exploding costs, Pa. seeks clampdown on Medicaid-funded use of Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs
    FORD TURNER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Mar 04, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — After adding more than $1 billion to its anticipated Medicaid costs this year specifically for Ozempic and similar weight-loss drug...
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    House talks Aging on a shoestring
    Local News, News, PA State News
    House talks Aging on a shoestring
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Feb 28, 2025
    HARRISBURG — The Department of Aging has received flat funding for the past six years. Before the House Appropriations Committee, Secretary Jason Kavu...
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    Cancer drug costs nearly $200K
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Cancer drug costs nearly $200K
    Feb 21, 2025
    Taxpayers spent $74.5 million to help develop the prostate cancer-fighting drug Xtandi, but its sky-high sticker price is limiting access to patients ...
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    Maternal and rural health, marijuana major priorities for healthcare hearing
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Maternal and rural health, marijuana major priorities for healthcare hearing
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Feb 20, 2025
    HARRISBURG — "We all just need a little break. It’s been a tough hearing,” said Department of Health Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen toward the end of her t...
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    Social Security Matters: Claiming benefits with a health savings account
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Claiming benefits with a health savings account
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Feb 15, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I have reached my full retirement age (66 plus 8 months) and plan to apply for Social Security this month, but I’ve seen articles that say...
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    Bradford Hospital Foundation bestows SARAH Award
    Business, Content, Daily Headlines, ...
    Bradford Hospital Foundation bestows SARAH Award
    Feb 03, 2025
    The Bradford Hospital Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bradford Regional Medical Center, hosted its first local in-person event since the COVID pa...
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    Registration open for statewide fall Coyote, Crow Hunt
    Local Sports, Outdoors
    Registration open for statewide fall Coyote, Crow Hunt
    July 31, 2025
    JOHNSONBURG — Jim Pennington Jr., president of Rolfe Beagle Club, announced that Rolfe Beagle Club will once again offer its popular Coyote and Crow H...
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    ‘Round the Square: Bunked
    Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: Bunked
    July 31, 2025
    LIFE AT CAMP: Remember being a kid, going to camp during the summer with a church group or scouts? We found a letter from Natalie Fesenmeyer reporting...
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    Read up on the U.S. government
    Lifestyles
    Read up on the U.S. government
    July 31, 2025
    Dear Heloise: Government and politics aren't the same thing. All the "bickering" you hear and read is people spewing political opinions, some of which...
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    Son’s parents want nothing to do with his girlfriend
    Lifestyles
    Son’s parents want nothing to do with his girlfriend
    July 31, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: My son is 20 and a senior in college. He's a baseball player and is about to ask the girl he's been dating for a year and a half to marry h...
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    Pa. fish commissioners amend rules on stocking Class A trout waters
    Local News, News, Outdoors
    Pa. fish commissioners amend rules on stocking Class A trout waters
    July 30, 2025
    After tabling the issue in April, the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission voted earlier this week on changes that could allow stocking ...
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    Cosper wins Junior AAA singles, receives scholarship
    National Sports, Outdoors
    Cosper wins Junior AAA singles, receives scholarship
    July 30, 2025
    SPARTA, Ill. — After 3,100 miles, 80 hours in the truck, and 1,700 competitive targets Brayden Cosper finished participation in national shooting even...
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