MMA Email Newsletter 6/5/2008
Top Stories | June 5, 2008
In the first year since Massachusetts implemented mandatory health insurance coverage for everyone, the uninsured rate among adults in the state dropped by almost half.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced a $1 million investment in MN Community Measurement Thursday as part of its $300 million initiative to eliminate regional and racial health care disparities.
A blue-ribbon group of health care experts, including MMA President-elect George Schoephoerster, M.D., has been assembled to participate in the 2008-2009 State Quality Improvement Institute.
St. Louis County Judge James Florey has ruled that Tank's Bar in Babbitt broke the law when it allowed customers to smoke under a loophole in the Freedom to Breathe Act passed last October.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has signed legislation to mandate the use of electronic prescription technology and require implemented electronic health records systems to be certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).
A study of the relative air pollution in bars in Moorhead and Fargo, North Dakota, shows that Moorhead's air is a lot healthier.
Every spring the MMA invites members to serve on standing committees for three-year terms beginning the following January.
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