Health Care

Congratulations to the graduating class of REOC’s nursing program for 2023. They stop by the WDKX Wake-Up Club to talk a little bit about their road to graduation and to getting into the nursing field.

President Joe Biden signed a bill terminating the national emergency of  Covid-19 pandemic by May 11th. Change to the health care system across the country is expected to happen once the Covid emergency takes place. Biden signs bill ending COVID-19 national emergency – CBS News

More than 100 million people in the U.S. have been saddled with health care debt. That includes about 40% of all adults, according to an investigation from Kaiser Health News & NPR. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that one-fourth of American adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000. One in five of those […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made her first State of the State address last night. Hochul outlined a plan that includes more than $2 billion in tax cuts for middle-class taxpayers and small business owners as well as a $10 billion investment in the state’s healthcare system and workers to help alleviate the current staffing […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated their list for the COVID-19 booster shot. The COVID-19 vaccine booster is only for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. So if you got the Moderna or the Johnson & Johnson shot you will not be eligible for this booster shot. You would also have had to complete the […]

A new study shows large metropolitan areas are more segregated now than they were in the 1990s. About 81% of areas with more than 200,000 residents showed they were more segregated even with equal housing laws in place. These segregated areas continue to increase and have led to poorer outcomes for Black people. According to […]

Fair and equal treatment in health care for Black people when we go to the hospital is all we ask. In case you didn’t know health care is not equal for black and brown people across the country. But right here in our own backyard, we see it more often than not. Prime example the […]