Healthcare

WVIA News' Roger DuPuis and Lydia McFarlane talk about SCI Waymart's program that trains inmates to work in facility's hospice care program.

The Trump administration froze Title X funding, leaving a grant half-paid to Maternal and Family Health Services. The organization may not be able to pay its subgrantees, such as Planned Parenthood Keystone, as it waits for money that might not come.

Secretary Debra Bogen of the State Department of Health championed the Wyoming County State Health Center’s reopening in downtown Tunkhannock.

Rising Tide Wellness, a healthcare nonprofit, will host a wellness fair in Scranton on Thursday, June 26. The fair will go from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lackawanna County Courthouse Courtyard.

Sixty-eight state parks will have menstrual product dispensers, including 15 in northeast and north-central Pennsylvania.

SCI Waymart is one of two Pennsylvania prisons with a personal care unit for inmates. As a result, its population is older than most of the Commonwealth’s prisons. Administrators recently revamped its hospice program, a volunteer-based program that allows inmates to get trained in hospice care for other inmates at the end of their lives.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture notified local governments and agencies last week that the federal government is holding back money appropriated for the vouchers, which means fewer recipients will get vouchers and their distribution has been delayed.

United Concordia Dental and the Highmark Foundation will sponsor the annual MOM-n-PA dental clinic at Wilkes-Barre’s Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza on Friday, June 6 and Saturday, June 7.

The Good Drop ketamine clinic in Avoca treats patients with treatment-resistant depression, chronic pain and anxiety. While they're happy to offer alternative care in Northeast Pennsylvania, the owners still see a lack of understanding around ketamine.

Over 600,000 Pennsylvanians could lose healthcare access if President Trump’s 'Big, Beautiful Bill' passes the U.S. Senate, healthcare activists say.