-
The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee has voted once more to introduce a bill to the legislative session in January that would approve medicaid expansion. -
Pivot Prosthetics & OrthoticsPivot Prosthetics & Orthotics hosts events and activities for those who use prosthetics as well as social connections for others who are in similar situations. Their adaptive mobility group uses activities such as archery in addition to social events that offer community and encouragement adapting to life with these devices.
-
Cody Regional Health is partnering up with SCL Health out of Billings to create the first Wyoming-owned flight program. The goal is to provide higher quality and lower cost for medical patients in Northern Wyoming. -
A Basin nursing home has closed because the hospital that owned the it didn’t have the money to keep subsidizing the care center.The cost of operating Three River Healths’ Bonnie Bluejacket Memorial Nursing Home for the past six years has been more than the revenue earned.
-
A mobile healthcare unit hopes to open in Casper by the end of the year. The unit will be operated by Wellspring Health Access -- the same organization that was planning to open a healthcare facility that would provide abortion services. But someone set the clinic on fire back in May before it could open.
-
As abortion becomes more restricted across the country, efforts are underway to connect women with abortion medications – a dose of two pills that can be taken at home.
-
The pandemic amplified nursing homes' long-standing workforce issues. Those staffing shortages persist, as nearly a quarter of nursing homes in the U.S. report not having enough nurses or aides.
-
When a nurse comes to a new mother’s home to help with nutrition and developmental milestones, it’s called a home visit. A federal program funds home visits for low-income families in the state. But as reporter Madelyn Beck found out for Wyofile, that program may lose its funding before the end of the year. Beck said there’s a bill proposed to increase funding but it hasn’t advanced. She said groups have been concerned for a while now.
-
Wyoming Department of Health says Children in the State face Risk of Lead Poisoning if their parents or guardians have an occupation that is Lead-related, as Lead from the mines could be transferred to kids at home through clothing.
-
The Natrona Collective Health Trust in collaboration with the Wyoming Community Foundation has allocated over $2 million to improve the health and well-being of the county. $350,000 is being allocated over several years to organizations and nonprofits to help alleviate effects of COVID-19, such as suicide prevention and vaccine education and distribution efforts.
-
The Veterans Home of Wyoming near Buffalo houses the new facility, which can accommodate 36 veterans. It also includes a lock down unit in addition to providing residential care. It's opening fills a long-time void in veteran healthcare in the state.
-
Questions on substance and alcohol use as well as mental health and suicide risk and access to care are some of the questions that are included on the survey. This is the fourth year that the department has conducted it, which was initially launched in 2016 and has been conducted every two years since then. It aims to gauge where the health and health behaviors of those ages 18-29 in a variety of employment sectors and demographics.
