Hartford city hall opens health clinic
By Jeff Cohen, WNPR News
May 17, 2012 6:31pm

Across the country, health care providers, insurers, employers and politicians say they are trying to make it easier to be healthy. It's even one of the cornerstones of the controversial Affordable Care Act, in which preventative care comes at no extra cost to the patient.

Now, Hartford City Hall is joining in -- with a 1,000 square foot clinic paid for and operated by St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. There will be a nurse there during working hours five days a week to help city and state employees, and their families, who aren't feeling well.

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Should unused sick time = cash?
By Arielle Levin Becker
May 17, 2012 12:23pm

Should employees who don't use all their sick days get paid for them when they leave a job?

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Feds to states: reduce use of harmful restraints and seclusions
By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
May 16, 2012 4:49pm

With thousands of students in Connecticut being physically restrained or secluded each year at school, the U.S. Department of Education is offering guidance for school leaders to cut down on these practices.

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Senate casualty: Insurance exchange board expansion
By Arielle Levin Becker
May 10, 2012 1:23pm

What killed a proposal to expand the board overseeing the state's health insurance exchange?

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Prescription Monitoring Program gets funding reprieve
By Arielle Levin Becker
May 07, 2012 2:44pm

The state program that allows doctors and pharmacists to track controlled substance prescriptions has gotten something of a reprieve, at least for now.

Money for the Prescription Monitoring Program had been slated to run out later this year, but a settlement between states and the drug maker Abbott Laboratories will provide Connecticut with $150,000 to bolster the program.

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