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1. Share of Cost, Elderly Falls – Emergency Services Responses Vary Widely Share of Cost, Elderly Falls - Emergency Services Responses Vary Widely...
2. Ready Campaign Information for People with Disabilities, Older Americans and Other Access and Functional Needs Ready Campaign Information for People with Disabilities, Older Americans and Other Access and Functional Needs...
3. Share of Cost: 6 Short Videos Discuss Affordable Care Act Changes Coming in 2014 The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) has put together a series of 6 short, under 5-minute videos on what changes to expect from the Affordable Care Act in the next 2 years. Some highlights of the changes happening by 2014 include: Government-funded health insurance (Medi-Cal) will expand to cover 2 to 3 million more Californians who […]...
4. Improving Emergency Management With The Help Of A Georeferenced Digital Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) have developed a computer application that allows georeferenced images that have been uploaded to social networks on the Internet to be recovered, located on maps and organized like a comic to create a visual perspective of a specific story, such as a crisis situation or an […]...
5. Emergency Access Advisory Committee (EAAC) Meeting – July 8 The Federal Communications Commission will hold the next EAAC meeting on July 8, 2011 from 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. in Washington, DC. The EAAC works to determine the most effective and efficient technologies and methods to enable access to Next Generation 911 emergency services by individuals with disabilities. This link opens a PDF document. This information is also in […]...
6. Share of Cost, WFP Operational Update – Pakistan Floods Emergency As flooding continues to cause displacement, destruction and suffering in Pakistan, WFP is mobilizing all possible resources to ensure those affected receive food assistance as swiftly as possible. – WFP is planning to have reached 2 million people with food by August 20th – communities who are urgently in need of food and accessible to […]...
7. How Insurance Status Influences Emergency Department Visit Rates How Insurance Status Influences Emergency Department Visit Rates...
8. WFP Emergency Operation Enters New Phase In Drought-Stricken Niger The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun a major round of feeding in Niger for 670,000 young children and their families as part of an emergency operation to reach as many as 8 million food-insecure people in the drought-stricken West African country....
9. Share of Cost, Chicago’s plan to spend federal education aid The Chicago Public Schools will use federal education aid to return class sizes to their normal level, reports the Chicago Sun-Times’ Rosaland Rossi. Illinois gets $400 million in education money from a bill Congress passed last week to help states make education and Medicaid payments. About $105 million of this will go to Chicago and […]...
10. Share of cost, Frequently Asked Questions about Filing an ADA Complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice Information from the U.S. Department of Justice on how to file an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) complaint. Includes answers to questions about how to file an ADA complaint by email, regular mail or other delivery service, what to do if you cannot prepare your own complaint due to a disability, how to find out […]...
11. Share of Cost, Reality outPACEs Energy Dept.’s green retrofitting program Maryland homeowners who want federal help to add energy-efficiency improvements are going to have to wait for a while, as Cody Calamaio reports in the Montgomery County, MD Gazette.  The same holds true for would-be green home repair projects around the country. The federal program, called Property-Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, was introduced as part […]...
12. British Red Cross Launches;Robots In War; Online Educational Videos “You are in a conflict area. Your home is about to be searched by an armed soldier or an armed robot. Which would you prefer?” Human soldiers have emotions....
13. Rights expanded for Illinois prisoners A federal judge has significantly changed how the the Illinois corrections system operates: inmates can now challenge orders sending them to the maximum security Tamms Correctional Center. According to George Pawlaczyk of the Belleville News-Democrat (a Southwestern Illinois paper that has done a series on conditions at Tamms), U.S. District Judge G. Patrick Murphy ruled […]...
14. MedlinePlus A website by the U.S. National Library of Medicine for patients and families that provides information about diseases, illnesses, health conditions and wellness issues. Pages contain links with health information on over 800 topics, as well as information on drugs and supplements and videos and tools. Check our share of cost site for additional information....
15. Rearranging the waiting room chairs Monique Garcia of the Chicago Tribune reports that the Illinois Senate voted 58-0 to enact a series of reforms to the state Medicaid system. As the vote indicates, the reforms are hard to argue with. Unfortunately, as I’ve reported, they do very little to resolve the state’s Medicaid financing crisis — a crisis that can […]...