| Employer cutbacks have retirees facing more health-care costs
Along with rising health-care costs, workers need to plan for higher risks associated with financing their care in retirement, say experts who are studying trends covering a range of employees.
Just as companies cap their retirement-plan exposure with defined contributions instead of guaranteed benefits, they are limiting their outlay for health care.
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Sandra Burkhardt, professor of psychology at St. Xavier University, has received the 2008 Venerable Mary Potter Humanitarian Award. Burkhardt was honored at the Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Center's Crystal Heart Ball held Feb. 2 at The Field Museum. The Venerable Mary Potter Humanitarian Award recognizes individuals whose personal and professional accomplishments embody the ideals, vision and mission of the founder of the Little Company of Mary Sisters.Burkhardt's award recognizes her support of families of children with autism spectrum disorders. Her work involves research, clinical services and community outreach. She founded Project Respect, an educational and recreational program supported by the Community Outreach Program of the Psychology Department of St. Xavier University.
Michigan Congressmen Dingell, Kildee endorse Clinton for president
LANSING, Mich. - Hillary Rodham Clinton picked up endorsements Wednesday from two veteran Michigan congressmen, adding to her cache of potential superdelegates should Michigan and Florida prevail in their effort to be counted at the Democratic National Convention in August. Democrats John Dingell and Dale Kildee said Clinton has the experience and skills to become president. The lawmakers were uncommitted in Michigan's primary last month. Dingell, first elected in 1955, is longest serving member of either party in the House. As chairman of the House Energy and Committee, he was a key ally of the former first lady in her unsuccessful 1994 effort to pass health care reform legislation. In making his endorsement, Dingell said he's impressed by the energy and enthusiasm Illinois Sen.
Bill Clinton Stops in Siouxland
President Bill Clinton made five stops in Iowa Thursday along with the support of former Governor Tom Vilsack. Their second stop in Spencer, Clinton challenged the county, which pulls in 320-thousand people for the Clay County Fair, to pull in that many to caucus for Hillary Clinton. President Clinton says Hillary has a plan to change health care in the U.S. and that plan stars with changing medicare. Bill Clinton, Former President of the United States, "Instead of having a back door attempt to privatize medicare, Hillary says get rid of that, take the savings back into medicare and provide preventative care for all the seniors so we can reduce the cost of medicare over the long run and keep everybody healthier we can do it for far less money." Bill says Hillary also has a plan to change the country into a "green" country which he says would create millions of dollars and jobs.
Hotline activated for needy in region
A new hotline makes finding social services as easy as calling police or firefighters. Beginning today, anyone in the Bay Area who needs help with food, housing, employment or health care can simply dial 211. The three-digit hotline began operating in San Francisco nearly two years ago; and since then six other Bay Area counties - Solano, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa and Santa Clara - have been in various stages of operation. But as of this morning, the service is officially up throughout the seven-county region. Among the newcomers is Contra Costa County, where 211 has operated in test mode until today. Still, operators at the Contra Costa Crisis Center have been fielding hundreds of calls a month. "Near Concord? OK, let's see, hmm," specialist Minerva Blaine told a caller Friday, scrolling through a computer database to find affordable housing units for the homeless mother of a new baby.
Let us invest in health education - Yamson
Accra, Nov. 18, GNA - Mr Ishmael Yamson, Chairman of University of Ghana Council has called on corporate institutions and organisations to invest in health education to ensure the development of the required human resource base for quality health care delivery in the country. He noted that knowledge acquired by health personnel would save the lives of many Ghanaians. Mr Yamson made the call at a fund-raising dinner and awards night organised by College of Health Sciences of the University of Ghana in Accra at the weekend. It was to support its Post Graduate Endowment Fund and reward individuals, institutions and organisations that had contributed to the fund. Mr Yamson said most corporate institutions and organisations, used most of their funds to support beauty pageants and it would be appropriate to channel these funds in health education.
Hospitals add art to lift spirits
Art is transforming drab, lifeless health care and workplace spaces into healing environments filled with beauty, sophistication and joy, and the trend has brought national attention to leaders like the University of Michigan and Detroit Receiving Hospital. .
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Members of the Spirit Lake Nation likely will hold a referendum on whether to support University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname, the tribe's leader said, saying members are weary of constant talk about the issue.
''It's been something that's not as important as our health care or housing or everything we're faced with out here, but it's been popping up all the time, and I think we need to put it to rest here pretty quick,'' Tribal Chairman Myra Pearson said.
William Goetz, chancellor of North Dakota's university system, said Feb. 2 that a reservation vote may help speed a resolution of the nickname dispute.
''If a vote is taken, certainly it will be a major step, one way or the other, in terms of an event that will, I think, determine the outcome one way or the other,'' Goetz said.
Professor launches Yale-Ghana research exchange
Last summer, Emily Mosites EPH '08 spent 11 weeks traveling the most rural areas of the Kintampo, Ghana on foot. She and her team were searching villages for people unknowingly infected with hookworm — a soil-born parasite that is a leading cause of anemia and malnutrition in the developing world. Mosites found prevalence to be alarmingly high — with 45 percents of Ghanaians in the area infected. But of those living with the disease, many had never made it to a diagnostic facility, let alone accessed treatment. “The closest diagnostic facility is five miles away, and people don't have cars," she said. “A great number had never accessed a health care facility in their lives." Mosites is among many Yale students and faculty members who have conducted field research in Accra, thanks to a two-way training initiative established in 2007 by Michael Cappello, a professor of Microbial Pathogenesis at the medical school.
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