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    FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2019, file photo, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey gives a speech at the state Capitol in Phoenix. Arizona's governor is looking into whether the state can remove the board of directors of a long-term care facility where a nurse is accused of raping an incapacitated woman who later gave birth. In a flurry of tweets Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, Ducey called for Hacienda HealthCare's board to be fired. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)
    January 25, 2019 - 6:40 pm

    Arizona governor urges new leaders at facility after rape

    PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is looking into whether it can remove the board of directors of a long-term care facility where a nurse is accused of raping an incapacitated woman who later gave birth, the governor said Friday. In a flurry of tweets, Gov. Doug Ducey called for Hacienda HealthCare's board to...
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    FILE - In this file photo taken Nov. 22, 2014, Blue Bridge Benefits LLC agent Patricia Sarabia, right, and Adolfo Briceno, left, with Spanish Speaking LLC, help a potential customer with Blue Cross Blue Shield at a kiosk promoting Obama Care at Compare Foods in Winston-Salem, N.C. A new poll finds that more than half of Hispanic adults have encountered a communication barrier in the health care system. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, file)
    July 27, 2018 - 2:13 am

    AP-NORC Poll: Latinos health care communication woes

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 6 in 10 Hispanic adults have had a difficult time communicating with a health care provider because of a language or cultural barrier, and when they do they often turn to outside sources for help, according to a new study conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for...
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    March 01, 2018 - 7:37 am

    Remains belong to North Carolina woman missing for 10 years

    LAWNDALE, N.C. (AP) — Remains found by hunters have been identified as those of a woman missing from a North Carolina assisted living facility for a decade. Local media outlets report that rabbit hunters found human remains two weeks ago in Cleveland County. This week, the remains were identified...
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    December 12, 2017 - 3:30 pm

    3 ex-nursing home employees convicted in Alabama

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Prosecutors say three former employees at an Alabama nursing home have been convicted. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement Monday that Sandra Michele Curry, Kacey Minerva Allen and Shawna Rogers pleaded guilty to attempted elder abuse. Curry and Allen...
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    FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 file photo, a woman is transported from The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills as patients are evacuated after a loss of air conditioning due to Hurricane Irma in Hollywood, Fla. After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida's nursing home industry is now on a collision course with Gov. Rick Scott. Days after Hurricane Irma ravaged the state, Scott used his emergency powers to put in place new rules that require nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have generators capable of providing backup power for four days. The Republican governor, who normally brags about eliminating regulations on businesses, gave nursing homes 60 days to comply. Nursing home officials say they can't. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)
    September 22, 2017 - 6:42 pm

    Elderly deaths: Call for generators in Florida nursing homes

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida's nursing home industry is now on a collision course with Gov. Rick Scott. Days after Hurricane Irma ravaged the state, Scott used his emergency powers to put in place...
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    In this Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, photo provided by Trudy Lampson, residents of the La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, sit in waist-deep flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey. Authorities said all the residents were safely evacuated from the facility. (Trudy Lampson via AP)
    August 28, 2017 - 5:24 pm

    Residents in photo of flooded nursing home are 'doing fine'

    The senior citizens who appear in a now-viral photo showing them submerged in waist-deep water in a Texas assisted-living center flooded by Hurricane Harvey over the weekend have been relocated to a nearby facility and a hospital. Tim McIntosh, whose mother-in-law owns the facility in Dickinson,...
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    In this Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, photo provided by Trudy Lampson, residents of the La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, sit in waist-deep flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey. Authorities said all the residents were safely evacuated from the facility. (Trudy Lampson via AP)
    August 28, 2017 - 5:21 pm

    Residents in photo of flooded nursing home are 'doing fine'

    The senior citizens who appear in a now-viral photo showing them submerged in waist-deep water in a Texas assisted-living center flooded by Hurricane Harvey over the weekend have been relocated to a nearby facility and a hospital. Tim McIntosh is the son-in-law of the owner of the facility in...
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    In this March 24, 2014 file photo, Jane Delgado, president of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, works in her office in Washington. U.S. Hispanics have longer life expectancy, but a new poll finds few older Latinos are confident that nursing homes and assisted living facilities can meet their needs. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
    August 22, 2017 - 9:33 pm

    AP-NORC poll: Hispanics see barriers to nursing care

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Close to one-half of older Hispanics have faced language or cultural barriers interacting with health care providers, and few have confidence in long-term care facilities to meet their needs, according to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And...
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    In this March 24, 2014 file photo, Jane Delgado, president of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, works in her office in Washington. U.S. Hispanics have longer life expectancy, but a new poll finds few older Latinos are confident that nursing homes and assisted living facilities can meet their needs. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
    August 22, 2017 - 7:17 pm

    AP-NORC poll: Hispanics see barriers to nursing care

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Close to one-half of older Hispanics have faced language or cultural barriers interacting with health care providers, and few have confidence in long-term care facilities to meet their needs, according to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And...
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    Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, during a public forum regarding veterans' health care at Helena College in Helena, Mont. (Thom Bridge /Independent Record via AP)
    August 21, 2017 - 6:28 pm

    VA seeks to funnel more nursing home money to rural areas

    HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said Monday during a visit to Montana that his agency will propose changes to make it easier for rural areas to receive funding to build nursing homes for veterans. Rural areas are often bypassed under the agency's existing guidelines...
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