social programs

OLEAN, N.Y. — HomeCare & Hospice recently established an agency fund at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation to support the mission, programmin...

The Bradford Hospital Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bradford Regional Medical Center, hosted its first local in-person event since the COVID pa...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College recently entered a partnership with CareerStep, an online educational organization that provides tr...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — HomeCare & Hospice Foundation is calling on local businesses, schools, and organizations to join in the mission of supporting compass...

DuBOIS — The use of telemedicine dates back to the late 1950s and 1960s when NASA developed telemedicine technology to monitor the health of astronaut...

The injection of private equity into the health care industry is disastrous for patients and the communities that depend on rural hospitals. Amidst pr...

Starstruck adulation is the last response you would expect rational, compassionate people to give to the acts of a cold-blooded killer. But such is th...

The looming possibility of federal cuts to Medicaid would hit rural areas in the region particularly hard, according to a study by the Georgetown Univ...

Kaleida Health officials have denied a rumor that Bradford Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department would be the next service shuttered at the f...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) As Pennsylvania residents began 2025, several new laws took effect, including expanded access to health care and pay raises for top...

DEAR RUSTY: I'm 72 years old with 20 years of military service. I am retired collecting Social Security, my military pension and state retirement bene...

Gage and Emy Brinsky know, when mom and dad aren’t there, it’s most likely because they’re busy helping others. Leah and Robbie Brinsky, parents to Ga...

While not in immediate danger, a transport service’s passengers still require assistance from people who have both the training and equipment to provi...

An estimated 3 million New Yorkers on Medicaid or the state-run Essential Plan don’t have incomes low enough to be using the programs, according to a ...

OLEAN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College’s class of 2024 Nursing program graduates achieved a 95% pass rate on the National Council Licensure Ex...

DuBOIS — The Level II Trauma Program at Penn Highlands DuBois received the Rural Health Program of the Year Award from the Pennsylvania Office of Rura...

When will the reduction of services at Bradford Regional Medical Center end? And what will be left in the Interstate Parkway facility? Those are just ...

Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and Olean General Hospital (OGH), Kaleida Health facilities, announced their December 2024 Star Award winners ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Penn Medicine is the first nonprofit health system to sign a contract to purchase generic drugs from Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Marke...

Medicare Advantage was supposed to save taxpayers money when it was created in 2003. Instead, it costs the government 22% more per enrollee than tradi...