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Unmet Needs: Living with mental illness in central Illinois

Post author:CU-CitizenAccess.org
Post published:April 22, 2014
Post category:Article Health Care Public Health

Illinois Public Media's “Unmet Needs: Living with mental illness in central Illinois” explores the causes of the gaps in care and looks at some of…

Weekly RoundUp: Affordable Care Act

Post author:CU-CitizenAccess.org
Post published:August 14, 2013
Post category:Article Health Care Public Health

As Illinois prepares for implementation of the new Affordable Healthcare Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, questions, criticism and confusion abound. Governor Quinn’s administration created Healthcare…

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Weekly Roundup: Healthcare

Post author:CU-CitizenAccess.org
Post published:March 5, 2013
Post category:Article Health Care Public Health

This year will see more effects from the Obama administration's Affordable Health Care Act. Here is what's trending in the news on health care,…

Brian Guest, former student at his job. Counseling and psychiatric services at Midwest universities are straining under the increased demand from students who are entering schools with more serious illnesses than seen before. A 2011 national survey of counseling center directors found increases in students who are on psychiatric medication and longer wait times for services at counseling centers. Like other counseling centers, more students at the University of Illinois are are diagnosed with severe issues such as depression and anxiety than in years past. Counseling centers also lack enough mental health providers to meet the demand and to meet recommended staffing levels.At the UI counseling center on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012.

Demand still up for college counseling services

Post author:CU-CitizenAccess.org
Post published:February 20, 2013
Post category:Article Health Care Public Health

By Pam G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess In the wake of Sandy Hook and other school shootings of recent years, gun control advocates – and some politicians,…

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Health industry brings Filipinos to Champaign

Post author:CU-CitizenAccess.org
Post published:October 5, 2012
Post category:Article Health Care Public Health

By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy -- Light gleams off the wooden floor in the gymnasium at Judah Christian School in Champaign. The squeaking of sneakers…

File photo. Students on campus in August 2015. Today, more college students are in need for mental health services.

College counseling centers face ‘perfect storm’, expert says

Post author:CU-CitizenAccess.org
Post published:August 27, 2012
Post category:Article Education Health Care Public Health

By Pam G. Dempsey/Investigative Journalism Education Consortium -- More than 20 million college students across the nation will start school this month, just weeks…

Bed Check: Safety violations cloud Central Illinois nursing homes

Post author:Dan Patrella / For CU-CitizenAccess and Pam G. Dempsey
Post published:December 7, 2011
Post category:Health Care Public Health

An elderly man with Alzheimer's disease leaves a local nursing home without staff noticing and is found wandering into traffic on Mattis Avenue in Champaign.  A patient in an Urbana nursing home is left unattended on a bed pan for hours until the bed pan creates a deep pressure sore in its shape. 

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photo by Darrell Hoemann Ardith Orr recites the Pledge of Allegiance after devotions at the County Rehabilition and Care Center in Gifford on Monday, Nov. 28, 2011.

State officials overhaul nursing home care

Post author:Dan Patrella / For CU-CitizenAccess and Pam G. Dempsey
Post published:December 4, 2011
Post category:Elderly Watch Health Care Public Health

In July 2010, Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law two bills that introduced broad reforms for the state’s nursing homes. The laws strengthened the screening process to keep residents with histories of violent crimes separate from vulnerable, elderly residents; instituted tougher quality and staffing requirements; upped fines for violations; increased the number of state inspectors by nearly 50 percent; and added new requirements for quicker reporting of fraud, neglect and abuse, among other changes.