Remote Area Medical, a non-profit provider of free pop-up clinics, will offer medical and dental services in Northeast Baltimore this Saturday and Sunday. All services are free and no identification is required. Services include general practice exams, women’s health exams, dental cleanings, dental fillings, tooth extractions, and dental x-rays. The nonprofit also typically offers free eye exams and glasses, but has been unable to secure enough volunteers in the Baltimore area. While it’s disappointing we can’t provide vision services, we’re still happy to provide free dental and medical services in…
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College student interviews the medical director of the Ohana Center for the mental health podcast
College student interviews the medical director of the Ohana Center for the mental health podcast Updated: 11:40 am PDT June 1, 2023 May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and a Bay Area college student is using her personal experience with depression and anxiety to advocate for other teens and young adults struggling with mental health issues. She has created a podcast and one of her latest episodes focuses on the Ohana Center in Monterey. The more we talk about mental health issues, the more they become normalized. I felt like…
Read MoreHow to Keep Your Family’s Medical Benefits – California Health Care Foundation
A Medi-Cal renewal form can be difficult to understand, especially for people who primarily speak a language other than English. Typical forms include 15 or more pages of questions about living household members, tax return status, income, health coverage, and financial assets. Photo: Claudia Boyd-Barrett This story originally appeared in the California Health Report and was produced in partnership with News for Chinese, which published a Chinese-language version. Kelly Ko of Freemont stared at the stack of paper. He had arrived in the mail, from the local government, in a…
Read MoreThis non-profit healthcare system cuts patients with medical debts
Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collection lawsuits. They keep the salaries of the patients. They seize their tax refunds. But a wealthy nonprofit healthcare system in the Midwest is among those taking it a step further: withholding care from patients who have unpaid medical bills. Allina Health System, which operates more than 100 hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin and generates $4 billion in revenue annually, sometimes turns away patients who are deeply in debt, according…
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