One of the numerous goals of the Affordable Care Act was to reduce costly and stressful hospital readmissions—in other words, to get more hospitals to…
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Sanford Health exerts a lot of political pull in South Dakota (pull which will be tested by its current effort to undo the will of…
Capping seven years of Obamanomics, the United States added 292,000 jobs in December. Among growing industries is health care: In December, health care employment rose by…
In a report on Senator Bernie Sanders’s apparent popularity among young women, USA Today quotes USD student Taryn Hogarth on her willingness to jump the gender gap for…
A Facebook correspondent looks at Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon’s suggestion that Governor Dennis Daugaard wants to require new Medicaid recipients to work and asks if that’s even…
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has an emergency—no emergency room! Great Plains Area Indian Health Service Director Ron Cornelius informed Rosebud Sioux Tribe President William Kindle…
Teacher shortage, welder shortage, doctor shortage—for Pete’s sake! Doesn’t anyone else want to live and work in South Dakota? Not when small-town South Dakota life can…
“I don’t like to brag about me… I don’t enjoy being in the media,” said Annette Bosworth to the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners yesterday,…
A number of Yankton-area residents are suing Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, Lewis & Clark Specialty Hospital, and doctors and administrators who allowed disgraced physician Dr. Allen…
Sanford Health is giving Northern State University two million dollars to recruit more young gladiators for our entertainment. NSU is thus throwing Avera Health overboard in favor…