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Rural hospitals gird for unwinding of pandemic Medicaid coverage

BY: - February 20, 2023

Donald Lloyd, CEO and president of St. Claire HealthCare in Morehead, Kentucky, has spent more than a year dealing with higher costs for food and medical supplies for his regional hospital. Now he’s trying to prepare for another financial hit — the loss of Medicaid reimbursements for treating people in rural Appalachia. “We are all […]

U.S. Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) viewed an authentic Butterfield stagecoach, a piece of the trail’s history earlier this year. A Boozman-authored bill to designate the Butterfield Overland Mail route a National Historic Trail is headed to President Biden to be signed into law. (Photo courtesy of Boozman's office)

Butterfield Overland Trail historic designation headed to Biden’s desk

BY: - December 22, 2022

Legislation designating a stage coach route that ran through Arkansas from 1858-1861 as a National Historic Trail is headed to the president’s desk to be signed into law. The bill, authored by Republican U.S. Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas, passed the House on Thursday, according to a press release from the senator’s office. The law […]