Friday, January 23, 2009 11:04 AM EST
CASSOPOLIS – Isolated Cass County Medical Care Facility “experienced one of its most difficult years” in 2007-2008, Administrator Merri Terborgh and Dowagiac certified public accountant Rebecca L. Moore acknowledged to the Board of Commissioners Thursday night.
A Sept. 30, 2008, audit conducted by Plante Moran chronicles alarming financial swings.
Cash decreased $451,000, from $1,971,866 on Sept. 30, 2007, Read the rest of this entry »

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Oceana County, with its pastoral fields brimming with asparagus and cherry trees, might seem an unlikely place for a teenage drug problem.
But in this quiet area where the largest of five high schools will graduate fewer than 115 seniors, there is a growing number of young people entering treatment centers for drug abuse.
Last year, 42 Oceana County residents between the ages of 15-20 were in drug treatment. And, according to one recovering addict, Read the rest of this entry »

Associated Press
10.24.08,
1:55 PM ET
SWEET SPRINGS, Mo. -
They hoped to attract five patients a day, but on average only three show up. The medical clinic sits in a doublewide trailer. And now Medicare wants back more than $1.5 million it mistakenly paid the rural Saline County hospital.
High hopes greeted the I-70 Medical Center when it opened less than three years ago as a community-based nonprofit with just 15 beds. Residents in Read the rest of this entry »

GAZA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — The sudden and violent beginning of Israel’s areal onslaught into Gaza Strip was bigger that the emergency plans drawn up earlier by the Palestinian health care system, Gaza doctors say.
The crisis emerged widely in al-Shifa hospital, the only main sanatorium for Gaza’s 1.5 million population. The hospital’s floors were colored in red, and also the grass in its yard, as doctors and volunteers offered first aid to hundreds Read the rest of this entry »