Workers down to €400 per night
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Providing workers essential homecare services to vulnerable people throughout counties Louth and Meath say they are short hundreds of euros per month following a contract change by their employer, Danu Home Care.
Danu Home Care traded as Ann’s Home Care Ireland until recently and retains the same corporate structure.
A spokesperson for the workers said they had been on seven 12-hour shifts every night and were moved to 30 hour per week contracts.
This means that they have lost 24 hours’ pay ever two weeks while doing the same number of calls. They…
March 6, 2024 – The potential financial collapse of Steward Health Care, which owns nine hospitals in Massachusetts, is a crisis—but it could also provide an opportunity, according to health policy expert John McDonough, to make the state’s overall health care system “ stronger, better, more patient-centered and community-centered.”
Steward’s financial problems have led to a lack of adequate staffing and supplies in some of its facilities in recent months, in some cases endangering patients, according to media reports. In addition, there are fears that some of the Steward hospitals will close, leaving communities without crucial health care services and…
A year-old Pentagon policy of paying for travel for service members who need reproductive health care that is not offered by the military — including abortions — was used 12 times from June through December, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.
Paying for transportation, lodging and meals for those 12 round trips from a service member’s home station to the location of their health care cost the department $44,791, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a public briefing to reporters. It was unclear how many of those trips involved abortion services, the area of the policy that has generated the most controversy.…
Dr. Stephen Major says he doesn’t see anything in the provincial budget that will address the urgent problems facing Newfoundland and Labrador’s health-care system, and says he’s worried the public is getting too comfortable with a failing system.
Major, a family and emergency room doctor in St. John’s, is the incoming president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association.
While he was encouraged to see more spending in some areas, Major said he was disappointed by a lack of urgency in the province’s $4-billion health-care plan for this fiscal year.
“The biggest issue I see is no real attempt to…
Medicaid assisted Randi La Salle avoid difficult decisions.
Should she pay for health care for her and her four children? Or their food or school supplies?
La Salle, who worked three jobs, and her family were among roughly 185,000 Idahoans who over the past year lost health insurance coverage on Medicaid, which largely insures people who are low-income or have disabilities.
Starting April 2023, states were allowed to start removing people from Medicaid, after a three-year federal pause on removals — due to the COVID-19 pandemic — ended.
Idaho pursued a fast timeline for resuming Medicaid eligibility reviews, known as…
JEFFERSON, Mo. (KAIT/Edited News Release) – On Friday, March 29, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it has enrolled 6,054 Missouri veterans in VA health care over the past 365 days; 27.85% more than it enrolled the previous year.
Nationally, VA enrolled 401,006 Veterans in VA health care over the past 365 days; 30% more than the 307,831 it enrolled the previous year.
This is the most yearly enrollees in at least five years at VA, and nearly a 50% increase over pandemic-level enrollment in 2020.
This historic enrollment has been made possible by the PACT Act, which has…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 2,000 West Virginia veterans enrolled in VA health care over the past 365 days.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Friday that 2,051 veterans are now enrolled in VA health care, a 23.41% jump compared to the previous year.
Nationally, VA enrolled 401,006 Veterans in VA health care over the past year. That’s the most yearly enrollees at VA in the last five years and a 50% increase over pandemic-level enrollment in 2020.
The 401,006 enrolled is 30% more than the 307,831 that signed up the previous year.
“We want every eligible Veteran to…
Detroit — With syphilis rates surging in Michigan and across the country, the Detroit Health Department is offering free health screenings for the virus all week, along with HIV, and screenings for several other wellness measures at eight locations across the city.
The screenings, which are part of Public Health Week, are free of charge, regardless of insurance status, and no appointments or identification methods are required, said Denise Fair Razo, Chief Public Health Officer for the city of Detroit.
“Syphilis is really high in our community — in fact, in the last I believe 90 days, we have seen…