Budget slashes sink in; Belt-tightening across the state.
Byline: John J. Monahan BOSTON - As community organizations and affected agencies sorted through budget Web sites and announcements yesterday to find out how the governor's billion dollars in budget cuts will affect their programs, some voiced frustration and others said they were grateful the cuts did...

Settlement brings end to hospital lawsuit.
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard A long-running antitrust lawsuit that pitted the region's two main hospitals in a bitter, costly battle over control of the local health care market has been settled. Leaders of PeaceHealth and Cascade Health Solutions said Monday that they had reached...

Nursing in India: learning new skills in the traditional Bhil fields.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INDIA, Those who have been there understand--they know the arduous task of conveying the tangible experiences of India. The overwhelming number of people, the colours, the sounds (the constant car horn honking, animal noises and religious services broadcast on loud-speakers in the larger cities), the...

Chance for a new start.
Byline: The Register-Guard In many respects, almost nothing is the same as it was in 2002 when McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center filed an antitrust suit against PeaceHealth. The dramatic changes over the past six years undoubtedly played a positive role in last week's settlement of that bitter and...

AmeriChoice and Community Health Center Ink Pact.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-11 September 2008-AmeriChoice and Community Health Center Ink Pact(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com AmeriChoice by UnitedHealthcare and Community Health Center (CHC), announced an agreement that will provide beneficiaries of Connecticut's Charter Oak and HUSKY health insurance programs with access to CHC's outstanding teams of primary care...

AmeriChoice and Community Health Center Ink Pact.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-11 September 2008-AmeriChoice and Community Health Center Ink Pact(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com AmeriChoice by UnitedHealthcare and Community Health Center (CHC), announced an agreement that will provide beneficiaries of Connecticut's Charter Oak and HUSKY health insurance programs with access to CHC's outstanding teams of...

Remarriage of environmental health and environmental protection.
One of the privileges of being on the NEHA Board of Directors, particularly as president, is that many dedicated environmental health professionals throughout the country contact me. Some of these contacts arise in response to a column like this one, and others arise in response to presentations I've made...

The Chinese health agenda: proposed strategies for improving Chinese American health and wellness.
(Original Title: The Chinese Health Agenda--Proposed Strategies for Improving Chinese American Community Health and Wellness) INTRODUCTION The purpose of this report presented by Kent Woo, Executive Director of the NICOS Chinese Health Coalition, is to share with a wider audience the wealth of valuable information...

Helpful Wisconsin kids drop in again at Abby's.
Byline: Bronislaus Kush COLUMN: WORCESTER DIARY The folks who run Abby's House received a little help recently from a group of Wisconsin teens, who lent a hand with a variety of odd jobs at the downtown emergency shelter for homeless and battered women. ...

Building an evidence base for community health: a review of the quality of program evaluations.
Abstract An assessment of the quality of program evaluations conducted in South Australian community health services investigated how effective evaluation reporting is in producing an evidence base for community health. Evaluation reports were assessed by a team of reviewers. Practitioner workshops allowed an understanding of the uses...