by annaread | May 7, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline will give $133,500 to the Daughters of Charity Health Center at St. Cecilia in New Orleans. Funds are to expand community outreach for preventing and managing diabetes. Louisiana’s death rate from diabetes is highest of...
by annaread | Apr 17, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
About 30 people are being served each day at a health clinic operated by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Charlotte County, Florida USA. “We’re seeing the working poor — those not poor enough for Medicaid, but who don’t have...
by annaread | Apr 15, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“They didn’t just participate in the modernization [of health care]; they propelled it,” says Bernadette McCauley, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Hunter College and author of Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick? Her comments note the particular...
by sjs | Apr 13, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
That’s the title of a new report by Families USA that gives state-level estimates of the numbers of deaths due to lack of health insurance in the United States. “The conclusions are sadly clear—a lack of health coverage is a matter of life and death for many...
by annaread | Apr 7, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The Marian Clinic, an affiliate of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health Systems, plays a significant role in the ongoing community and economic development of Topeka, Kansas USA. Estimates are that the clinic put almost $2 million (USD) into the local economy...
