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On this episode, Campbell County Health's Board of Trustees are moving to affiliate the hospital with a larger system. COVID-19 numbers continue to rise in Cheyenne. Wyoming lawmakers recently changed who community health care providers can serve. The latest federal coronavirus relief package includes $20 million for Indigenous language programs. But advocates are calling for more. Those stories and more.
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The Campbell County Health Board of Trustees has been working on a potential deal to affiliate the local hospital system with UC Health, a Colorado-based hospital system. The move has caused uproar in the community, with many asking questions about what this could mean for local residents. Wyoming Public Radio's Catherine Wheeler spoke with Board Chair Adrian Gerrits and board member Tom Murphy about the Campbell County Board of Commissioners' recent decision to not move ahead with the deal. Gerrits said it's a move trustees have been discussing for years. He begins by explaining how and why they are considering the affiliation. -
As drought strains much of the state, and tens of thousands of newcomers move to the busy Front Range each year, towns like Severance are thinking about growth – and water usage – in ways that they never have before. -
The University of Wyoming is embarking on five projects designed to improve the state. It's part of what is being referred to as the Grand Challenges initiative. The idea is for the projects to provide either solutions for a problem facing Wyoming or find a way to improve the state. -
The growth in COVID-19 state caseloads has put Wyoming in the top ten most cases nationally. A big reason for this is the spike of cases in Laramie County where the vaccination rate is slightly above 30 percent. County Health Officer Dr. Stan Hartman told Bob Beck what's going on. -
Learning Indigenous languages became even harder during the pandemic. In some communities, language learning ground to a halt. And many tribal communities saw the tragic deaths of native speakers. The latest federal relief package includes $20 million in emergency funding for Indigenous language programs, but advocates say it's not enough. The Mountain West News Bureau's Savannah Maher reports. -
This past legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill that will change who community health care providers can serve. Throughout the summer, stakeholders are now figuring out how to actually implement these policy changes on the ground. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska spoke with Andi Summerville, the executive director of the Wyoming Association of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, on the current process. Summerville said the new system involves priority groups that so far have been separated into three tiers. -
In 2017, Northern Arapaho tribal members traveled to Carlisle Indian Industrial School to bring home the remains of three children. These children were buried at a cemetery by a school in Pennsylvania. Home From School is a film that documents this journey. Wyoming Public Radio's Signa McAdams sat down with the film's associate producer, Northern Arapaho's Chairman Jordan Dresser, at the film's premiere in Lander. They discussed boarding schools, repatriation and generational trauma. -
Jason Tyler Burton wrote the song "Headwaters" and the album with the same title while working as a seasonal park ranger at the South entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The entrance is located near the headwaters of the Snake River. That summer he thought a lot about the river's journey and his own, and how it gave him a sense of belonging during this transitional time in his life. Oliva Weitz has this profile.
