New North Alabama program teaches kids to spot online predators, scams, and fake content ...

Medicaid managed care organizations should prioritize children in low-opportunity neighborhoods to optimize health care utilization, improve minority health, and address health-related social needs.

Viewers from across North Alabama told WAFF 48 that strict Medicaid limits on doctor visits and prescriptions are putting ...

Alabama Lions Sight has improved vision for more than 500,000 residents since 1944, offering screenings, exams and low-cost eye care to Alabamians who otherwise couldn’t afford it.

Unfortunately, Amara’s story is not an outlier. It is one of thousands in Alabama, where 27% of mothers do not receive prenatal care within their first trimester. This delay in care can be detrimental ...

The Alabama Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would prohibit food assistance recipients from using their benefits to purchase certain sodas and sugary processed foods. SB 57, sponsored by Sen.

The bill by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, would require the Alabama Department of Human Resources, which administers SNAP, to ...

Alabama’s Hospitals Continue to Improve Quality by Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections For the fourteenth year in a row, Alabama’s Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI) program has been ...

UAB St./ Vincent’s/ St. Clair has been recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top-recommended hospitals in ...

The transformation fund was a late-stage deal in 2025’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” to blunt criticism over immense Medicaid cuts that are straining rural healthcare; yet the fund only amounts to 37% of ...

Image by Reto Gerber from Pixabay March 2, 2026 - By Phil Galewitz - Star Quinn moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, in 2023, the same year the state began covering dental costs for about 600,000 low-income ...

A collective $664 billion is set to disappear from states’ Medicaid budgets through 2034 as a result of policy changes included in last summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, according to new state-b | ...