Mission, TX

Columbus, OH

Weslaco, TX

Weslaco hospital receives “Gold Plus” and “Diabetes Honor Roll” awards from the American Heart Association. WESLACO, TX, August 2024 — Knapp Medical Center has received three awards for care of stroke patients from the American Heart Association: a “Stroke Gold Plus” award, a “Target: Stroke Honor Roll” award, and a “Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll” award.

KNAPP MEDICAL CENTER RECOGNIZED FOR CARE OF STROKE PATIENTS

Texas State

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Texas Home Goods Retailer Conn's Shutters Operations Amid $77 Million Loss. Conn's HomePlus, a longstanding Texas-based home goods retailer, has officially announced a complete shutdown of its operations across 15 southern states. This drastic move follows the company's recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of Texas.

Major Texas Retailer Collapses: 74 Stores to Close Amid Financial Struggles

NBC News

After private-equity firms acquire hospitals, the facilities’ assets and resources diminish significantly, leaving the facilities less equipped to care for patients, according to a new study by physician researchers at the University of California at San Francisco, Harvard Medical School and the City University of New York’s Hunter College.

After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less able to care for patients, say top medical researchers

Brownsville, TX

DHR Health Family Medicine/Primary Care Physician & Graduate Medical Education Family Medicine Residency Supervisor/Faculty Member. The human body is a complex and highly organized structure composed of different cells, organs and systems that perform one or more bodily functions. Sometimes, it is compared to a machine with many parts working together to maintain life. However, the human body is not a machine. Machines are products of design and can be rebuilt, bodies are products of natural selection. The way the body functions and fails is not always straightforward.

Primary Care Physicians: Your First Line of Defense in Healthcare

Omaha, NE

Edinburg, TX

EDINBURG — A 33-year-old Nebraska man accused of intoxicated manslaughter and his defense attorney’s are attempting to suppress statements he made to police following the fatal crash where he told police that he was “faded.”. Omaha resident Tyrone Dewayne Amos, who was re-arrested for missing a hearing...

Man charged in fatal Edinburg crash seeks to suppress ‘I’m faded’ statement

The family of four people killed in a July 2023 collision is suing the now-paralyzed Edinburg man accused of driving drunk and causing the crash. Sheng Li Jiang, who was 46 at the time, is accused of killing Edinburg residents Luz Aurora Casados, 50, Maria Guadalupe Zavala Casados, 68, and Ellieana Santoy, 2, of San Juan, on Monday, July 24, 2023.

Lawsuit reveals new details in deadly Edinburg crash that killed four

UnitedHealthcare has completely revamped its provider search experience for millions of members, infusing new features that leverage claims and pricing data, along with AI-powered tools that provide more accurate results. "The company went through a transformation in the way that it operated and started thinking more about the end-to-end consumer...

Inside UnitedHealthcare's provider search revamp

Georgia State

Some of the spaces that formerly housed Walmart Health are getting a new tenant. CenterWell, the health care services business of Humana Inc., said it plans to lease clinical space and open senior-focused primary care centers at 23 Walmart Supercenter stores in Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas. The centers will be located next to the Walmart stores in clinical office spaces that was formerly occupied by Walmart Health.

Humana to open primary care centers for seniors at Walmart locations in four states

Denver, CO

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In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A former Cameron County constable who was initially sentenced to life in prison for protecting marijuana and cocaine shipments for the Gulf Cartel has been released from jail after a federal judge granted him compassionate release. Former Cameron County Precinct 7 Constable Jose Alfredo...

Former constable who worked for Gulf Cartel granted compassionate release

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

California State

The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Plaintiffs, in a case against Wells Fargo alleging that the bank knowingly took part in a marketing scam, asked the court, July 8, not to grant a motion for summary judgment.

Class action lawsuit says Wells Fargo customers lost over $160 Million

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Florida State

Jacksonville Today

Republican Donald Trump has a 7-point lead over Democrat Kamala Harris among Florida voters, 49% to 42%, according to a new poll from the University of North Florida. Four percent are backing another candidate, and 6% are undecided or didn’t answer.

New Florida poll: Trump leads; support strong for abortion and recreational weed

Kerrville, TX

New York Post

Rusty Yates, the ex-husband of notorious killer mom Andrea Yates, has forgiven her for drowning their five young children in 2001 — and even talks to her in the mental hospital at least once a month. 

The Post has learned that Rusty, 59, calls Kerrville State Hospital regularly to speak to his 60-year-old ex-wife. The former couple talks about their slain children, who would all be adults now. 

Rusty has even visited his ex-wife in the facility, which is intended for people who are deemed incompetent to stand trial or found “not guilty by reason of insanity.”



Rusty Yates divorced his infamous...

Andrea Yates’ ex-husband Rusty regularly speaks to her about their 5 young children whom she drowned

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Recalled Meat Sold In Texas Spurs Ongoing Hospitalizations, Deaths

Arizona State

Phoenix, AZ

The Independent

A wealthy power couple from Arizona found themselves in handcuffs just months after getting married, for their role in a $900 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice. Alexandra “Lexie” Gehrke, 38, and Jeffrey King, 49, were preparing to depart for their honeymoon at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport last month when federal prosecutors arrested them on charges of conspiracy, health care fraud, receiving kickbacks and money laundering in connection to a years-long scheme.The government claims Gehrke and King targeted “elderly Medicare patients, many of whom were terminally ill in hospice care” to get “medically unnecessary”...

Medical entrepreneur and her DJ husband arrested over $900m healthcare fraud scheme

Cameron County, TX

Los Fresnos, TX

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Border Patrol agents on Tuesday disrupted a human smuggling attempt at the Cameron County Airport in Los Fresnos. The incident happened at approximately 5 p.m. day and resulted in the apprehension of eight people in the country illegally and the arrest of Virginia Vela-Salazar, a Mexican citizen born in 1982.

Border Patrol stops smuggling attempt at Cameron County Airport

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Alamo, TX

Los Ebanos, TX

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Mission Regional Medical Center named as a “Great Community Hospital” by national publication

Becker’s Hospital Review recognizes Mission Regional on “100 great community hospitals” list. Mission, Texas / July, 2024 – Mission Regional Medical Center, a member of the...

Mission Regional Medical Center named as a “Great Community Hospital” by national publication

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