With the hard work of hospice employees and volunteers, along with various organizations and individuals who provide financial support to hospice services in our north state community, Mercy Hospice was able to serve 746 patients in 2015, St. Elizabeth Hospice… Continue Reading
So you, or someone you know, needs to sign up for health insurance. Medi-Cal isn’t available to you; you’re not on an employer plan; and you need to sign up for insurance For starts, here are the two most foremost… Continue Reading
Why do we call Social Security and Medicare “entitlements”? That word makes it sound like some kind of a handout. It is not a handout. I started paying into Social Security when I was 15 and got my first job… Continue Reading
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is running as hard as he can away from what is probably the best thing he did as Governor of Massachusetts. As governor of that state, he supported and then signed into law one of the… Continue Reading
What: Community members and local health care providers are invited to attend the “Reaching Special Populations” presentation
When: Thursday (March 24) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Boggs Conference Center, 2420 Breslauer Way, Redding … Continue Reading
What: Advance Health Care Directive Class Offered When: May 3, 6 to 8 p.m. Where: Mercy Medical Center Redding – Lower Level Auditorium 2175 Rosaline Ave., Redding Making health care decisions can be a complex process. It is important that… Continue Reading
Those of you who are concerned about the quality of health care that would be provided by a government run program should visit the Veterans Administration hospital in Seattle. It would be a real eye-opener. The Seattle VA facility is HUGE. There… Continue Reading
Full disclosure: I qualified for Medicare a year and a half ago. I had a terrible time with that. Everybody knows I am not disabled and I certainly am not old enough for Medicare. Sure, I was born in 1942,… Continue Reading
A Redding town hall meeting on the health care system that Rep. Wally Herger is hosting on Tuesday has been moved to a bigger venue. The 7 p.m. town hall now will be at Simpson University’s gymnasium. It had been planned… Continue Reading
California is facing at least two economic crises. The budget is one, and health care is the other. The budget is the fault of two groups: the politicians we elect and the people who elect them. We seem to demand… Continue Reading
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