Kate Giammarise
ReporterKate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. She has won numerous state and local awards for her reporting and was honored with a 2020 Keystone Media Award for her beat reporting on poverty. She can be reached at kgiammarise@wesa.fm or 412-697-2953.
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State officials say their proposed changes to the state's Medical Assistance program aim to address unmet social needs, such as housing and food insecurity.
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McKeesport’s 9th Street Clinic, a free primary care clinic serving uninsured adults, has a new home on Fifth Avenue in downtown McKeesport.
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After questions from WESA and Spotlight PA, McKeesport signed onto Pennsylvania’s opioid settlement, granting the county a full payout this year.
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The Penn Avenue building, which housed a mix of subsidized and market-rate apartments, was the site of a deadly fire last December.
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Homewood House is one of a number of affordable local communities where tenants say a new owner is unresponsive to problems, and not investing in their properties.
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CodeNForce is being beta-tested in several Eastern suburbs now including Wilkins Township, North Braddock, Glassport, Munhall, Chalfant, and East McKeesport.
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Advocates say the new rule could improve care for millions of nursing home residents. Industry groups, however, say the new rules come without additional funding.
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Landlords had long complained about delays and red tape around the program. But the program’s problems seem to have gotten worse, or at least more public, since the pandemic.
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“Transforming Community Living” will be hosted by the Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium, a group that works to preserve and share local disability history.
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Opioid payments for county governments and county district attorney offices equaled about $6.50 per resident across the state last year. But there were big differences.