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  • Rural Hospitals Find Ways to Survive, Expand

    Close collaboration between stakeholders in a community allows rural health centers to remain in operation. With the failure of many rural hospitals across the United States, medical providers, nonprofit organizations, and even city governments are coming together to invest and save institutions crucial to their communities. From placing faltering hospitals under municipal control, to expanding services through nonprofit donations, many rural communities are finding solutions that fit.

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  • Providing Holistic Care to Moms In Recovery

    Moms In Recovery is a New Hampshire-based program providing team-based comprehensive care for pregnant women in recovery from substance use disorder. Women in the program receive therapy, obstetric services, and primary care all in the same place providing exceptionally coordinated care as well as easy access to services.

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  • Offering Care Before Cuffs

    The Miami Police Department has joined efforts with health care and social services partners to offer an alternative to prison for opioid users. The Collaborative Law Enforcement Addiction Recovery (CLEAR) program consists of participants signing a binding agreement and entering treatment that lasts for 12 months, all while also helping to build trust between officers and their communities.

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  • Planting Trees to Help Dallas Breathe

    In 2016, the Texas Trees Foundation and federal Trust for Public Land partnered to use GIS technology in greening Dallas, Texas, and plant some 1,000 trees to start. Not only does the initiative reduce respiratory problems like asthma--over the next 40 years, the new tree cover is expected to create about $2.9 million in environmental benefits, sucking around 250 tons of CO2 from the air and capturing around 4 million gallons of stormwater.

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  • Seeking the Lost

    Los Angeles County is offering trackable bracelets in a voluntary program for people with conditions—such as autism and dementia—that can lead to wandering and becoming lost. In this way, people who may have difficulty remembering or communicating information such as a telephone number or home address can be safely found by first responders.

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