The Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative (FFI) has announced it is seeking requests for activities to support and build on its efforts. This initiative is about people working together to create vibrant communities where the healthy choice is the easy choice.
This work began in April 2007 when the W.K. Kellogg Foundation selected Northeast Iowa as one of nine communities locations across the country to become models of community change. Each Read the rest of this entry »

Akron, OH
Albuquerque, NM
Anaheim, CA
Anchorage, AK
Arlington, TX
Atlanta, GA
Aurora, CO
Austin, TX
Bakersfield, CA
Baltimore, MD
Baton Rouge, LA
Birmingham, AL
Boston, MA
Buffalo, NY
Chandler, AZ
Charlotte, NC
Chesapeake, VA
Chicago, IL
Chula Vista, CA
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Colorado Springs, CO
Columbus, OH
Corpus Christi, TX
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Durham, NC
El Paso, TX
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, in LaGrange, Ky., in about 30 days, according to a news release.
by the end of the year, the release said.
“During the last three years, we have determined that operating an eight-bed inpatient unit with 24-hour staffing needs has not proven to be a workable care model,” Hosparus president and CEO Phil Marshall said in the release. “Our experience with referral patterns and patient preferences indicates that we cannot operate Read the rest of this entry »

Although NGHS’s potential exposure to interest rate and term-out risks
is considerable, this is largely offset by the system’s robust financial
profile and relatively good access to the capital markets indicated by
its strong rating level. Essentially all of NGHS’s outstanding debt
consists of variable rate demand obligations (VRDOs), of which the $103
million series 2007G are currently held as bank bonds. The Read the rest of this entry »

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Health Net of the Northeast is a subsidiary of Health Net, Inc.
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. Health Net, Inc. is among the nation’s largest publicly
traded managed health care companies. Its mission is to help people be
healthy, secure and comfortable. The company’s health plans and
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by Lindsay Lyon/U.S. News and World Report
We’ll spare you the lecture. (Seriously, though, stamp out that butt and flush the pack, already!)
Tobacco use is the chief cause of preventable death in the United States. Left unbridled, smoking could kill more than 1 billion people this century, according to the World Health Organization. That equals the number who would die if a Titanic sank every 24 minutes for the next 100 years, as former U.S. Read the rest of this entry »