There’s a new mobile dental-care program making the rounds in Toronto. Toronto Public Health has two vans with built-in dental clinics that are travelling around the city to provide care to seniors in 10 long-term care homes operated by the city. “Everything is on site, so it’s accessible, it’s timely and it’s free,” Dr. Karen Lee, a dentist with the mobile team, told CTV News Toronto Monday following an announcement about the program. The vans are equipped to handle patients using...
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued a statement this week after the Biden administration finalized several rules aimed at improving health care for Americans in nursing homes, those receiving home and community-based services through Medicaid, as well as updates to Medicaid-managed care to strengthen health services covered by these plans:
One of California's biggest home insurers could resume writing new homeowner policies if the department of insurance approves rule changes.
One of California's biggest home insurers could resume writing new homeowner policies if the department of insurance approves rule changes.
The actress and comedian has worn the outfit at star-studded events. Apparently, she’s even ripped it.
Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Monday that the Biden administration has finalized the first-ever minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes. The move comes after the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw advocates for the elderly reporting poor living conditions for residents in which they’d go hours without meals and water and were not kept properly clean. […]
Freezing watermelon is a convenient way to make your produce last longer and to prevent food waste. Here's a step-by-step guide for your next summer treat.
Sheffield City Council’s planning officers will have until June 11 to come back with a decision on an application for three new homes on Kenwood Road. A design and access statement uploaded on behalf of the applicant Venice Regal Sheffield Ltd onto the planning portal stated that the land is peripheral land at the Kenwood Hall Hotel site. It is occupied by car parking, a garage block with hard standing (20th century), a garden with greenhouses and other outbuildings. The adjacent land, the...
For centuries, dogs have been bred to work and perform specific tasks. For example, Pembroke Welsh corgis often work as herding dogs and were “once invaluable to farmers in Wales,” according to the American Kennel Club. These days, though, dogs that were originally hard at work are now frequently found hardly working. Like my own …
ST. GEORGE — A yearlong case came to a close when a Hurricane man was sentenced to prison on a first-degree felony for sexually abusing a child, a crime the defendant admitted to when the case was filed more than a year ago. The defendant, 38-year-old Jacob Earl Herman, appeared last Tuesday before District Judge […]
Deciding on what the UK’s place in the world should be has been like watching politicians spin a wheel. Then spinning it again when the option they landed on doesn’t
SUV was VW’s most popular vehicle globally last time around, and this one takes some important steps forward