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On today’s episode of The Confluence: A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of how the state funds schools is underway, seven years in the making; a new documentary film examines the impact of non-profit hospitals, U.S. health care system and Pittsburgh entities on its patients; and a rundown of the holiday-themed happenings in the region.
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Pennsylvanians working in the behavioral health care field have the chance to receive money from the state to pay off student loan debt.Gov. Tom Wolf's…
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Kim Stanley shook out a white pill from a prescription bottle and poured herself a glass of water, at the kitchen sink of her North Huntingdon Township…
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Barriers continue to exist for transgender people seeking medical treatment, according to experts who spoke at a conference Monday called, "Becoming a…
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has taken legal action against UPMC, western Pennsylvania’s largest health care system, in an effort to force…
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State Sen. Jay Costa, a Democrat from Forest Hills, is proposing legislation to require Pittsburgh’s two largest health care systems to accept each…
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A new University of Pittsburgh study asks whether a revenue model set to be introduced in six rural Pennsylvania hospitals next year can both reduce…
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At the northeast corner of US Route 30 and Agnew Road in Westmoreland County, there’s a sloping, nine-acre lot of mostly gravel and overgrown brush.“Most…
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Westmoreland County is getting a new hospital in Hempfield Township at the junction of Route 30 and Agnew Road. AHN Hempfield is the first of four…
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For people with anxiety or depression, an online therapy can be similarly effective to seeing a mental health professional, according to researchers from…