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• Geneva County offers prescription discount card to uninsured
  Sep 3, 2010 — The Dothan Eagle
  The company is also cutting Geneva County in on the deal, giving the county 50 to 75 cents per prescription filled. The company expects that 250 to 500 prescriptions will be filled a month by cardholders in Geneva County.
• New health center to relieve pressure on ERs
  Sep 1, 2010 — Montgomery Advertiser
  The city of Montgomery contributed $1.5 million and Montgomery County chipped in $1 million. Once the facility is completed, Health Services will request annual operating grants.
• County Commission secures $14.8 million bond for hospital
  Aug 30, 2010 — The Leeds News
  Clair County Commission officially approved to sign onto its $14.8 million bond for the new St. Clair Economic Development Council owns the road property. Being in the zones affect people's property insurance.
• Budget crunches impact state workers, retirees
  Aug 24, 2010 — The Decatur Daily
  Active employees pay $15 for single coverage and $205 for family coverage.
• Emergency roof repairs at CHS approved
  Aug 21, 2010 — The Cullman Times
  Jan Harris said. The school board approved an approximately $42,000 emergency bid with Miller Roofing to replace the damaged portion of the roof at a meeting earlier this week. All the repair costs will be covered by insurance, Harris said. Anita Overturf, facilities coordinator for the school system, said the project will only repair the damaged area.
• Slow economy makes Hospice job tougher
  Aug 20, 2010 — The Decatur Daily
  Catherine Godbey Aug. 20, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- For three years, Marilyn Rigel lived with metastatic liver melanoma. Funding is not keeping pace. Two months ago, the United Way of Morgan County cut appropriations to 26 local agencies, including Hospice. From January to June, the operation's billable hours more than doubled what Hospice projected.
• Medicaid shortfall
  Aug 19, 2010 — Montgomery Advertiser
  Rawls, spokeswoman for Alabama Medicaid, said Medicaid is often painted erro­neously as a welfare-related entitlement program. "The reality is that for a growing number of working Alabamians, Medicaid is the only health coverage they can get -- or afford," Rawls said in an e-mailed response. "In fact, nearly half of all children on Medicaid in Alabama are from working families." In addition to providing health insurance for children, Medicaid pays for the delivery of half of all...
• No consensus on benefits
  Aug 19, 2010 — The Decatur Daily
  Then you still have to pay for state coverage," he said. Currently, the state pays $805 per month in employer share of active and retired state employee health insurance. Active employees pay $15 per month for single coverage and $205 for family coverage. Early retirees pay $181 per month for single coverage and $393 for family coverage.
• State's rate of infant deaths hits lowest point in history
  Aug 19, 2010 — Montgomery Advertiser
  State Health Of­ficer Donald Williamson said Wednesday. Williamson believes part of the reason the number of babies who die during their first year of life is down is related to the economy. Alabama's infant-mortality rate stands at 8.2 deaths per 1,000 live births according to numbers released Wednesday, down significantly from a high of 10 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2007, though still well above the national rate of 6.5. Alabama had 513 infant deaths in 2009,...