Is Medicaid on the chopping block? Lawmakers from Connecticut unpack proposed federal funding cuts to help the more than one million state residents relying on Medicaid understand how the cuts will impact their healthcare coverage.

Proposals to limit private equity ownership of Connecticut hospitals are gaining bipartisan support in the state legislature, as Waterbury Hospital, Manchester Memorial, and Rockville General Hospital in Vernon struggle to fund a buyer.

To celebrate the show’s 15th anniversary, an episode we did for its 10th anniversary. After thousands of shows, each about some something, a show NOT about a specific something: tapirs.

EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin said last week that the move to cut over 30 regulations at the agency would “roll back trillions in regulatory costs and hidden ‘taxes’ on U.S. families.” Connecticut officials and environmentalists disagreed.

A Yale study found corporate shareholders received $2.6 trillion from health care companies between 2001 and 2022

For food banks and people who go to them, the economic uncertainty represents a small part of the larger anxiety about ongoing moves on the federal level.

Emergency department boarding – when patients are held, often in hallways, as they await an inpatient bed – is getting renewed scrutiny in Connecticut.

Long-term care workers from the union SEIU 1199 NE and faith leaders rallied Tuesday to reflect on the toll of COVID-19 – and call for more state support.

The Community Health Center Association of Connecticut (CHC/ACT) filed a Declaratory Ruling Request with the state Department of Social Services (DSS). The request centers on DSS’s legal obligations for setting and revising Medicaid reimbursement rates for Connecticut’s health centers.

Connected patients are offered a list of options – a guided tour of botanical gardens, a community theatre performance, a pottery class and more.

The funding allows InterCommunity Health to serve an additional 2,000 city residents, according to Mayor Arunan Arulampalam.

Experience Camps, a national nonprofit, is expanding to Connecticut with the launch of its annual summer camp program for grieving children.