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St. Louis Public Radio |
Missouri to start offering asthma home assessments to children on Medicaid
St. Louis Public Radio It takes John Kraemer about two hours to finish an asthma home assessment. He interviews the family, checks each room for allergens and records air quality data with a particulate counter. By identifying potential triggers for a patient's asthma in … |
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fox4kc.com |
Missouri to fund some home assessments for kids with asthma
fox4kc.com KANSAS CITY, Mo — Sometimes, the biggest dangers to your child are right in the home. The state of Missouri will soon provide funds to see that dangers for some kids with asthma are found there so they can be eliminated. “How long ago was the last … |
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KBIA |
Missouri Medicaid to Support Asthma Care at Home
KBIA Webb, an Environmental Health Coordinator at Children's Mercy Hospital, is visiting the home of a child with asthma to help identify environmental factors that could be triggering the child's condition, like the mold she just found growing on the … |
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Key Asthma Budget Item Signed Into Law in Missouri
STLtoday.com Medicaid will begin reimbursing Missouri healthcare providers that perform home assessments and asthma education to high-risk children with severe asthma, beginning July 1, 2015. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon approved a $500,000 line item in the state's … |
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Funding of asthma services is good for Missouri
STLtoday.com This budgetary line item would implement asthma care management changes supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, which include asthma education and healthy home assessments for many diagnosed children with asthma across our state. Getting Asthma Out Of Emergency Departments |
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House Proposal Could Put Spotlight On Asthma Care In Rural Missouri
St. Louis Public Radio The additional services would include specialists to inspect more homes to pinpoint asthma triggers. They would also supply educators to show families and health providers how to identify and reduce the triggers, and to help asthmatic children manage … |
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Missouri considers move to improve care for asthma sufferers
STLtoday.com But the state has also pioneered advances in addressing asthma treatment and costs. Two years ago, the state Legislature became the first to allow schools to stock quick-relief asthma medications for emergencies. Missouri also became the first state to … |
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 Columbia Missourian |
Missouri swimmer Connor Nolan fights anxiety, asthma to succeed in pool
Columbia Missourian Missouri swimmer Connor Nolan began working with MU sports psychologist Rick McGuire in spring 2012 to overcome his exercise-induced asthma. For the first time in eight years he took a month-long break from swimming that summer. When he returned in … |
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Missouri House passes bill on asthma meds in schools
Kansas City Star JEFFERSON CITY — Legislation that would let Missouri school nurses keep asthma medication on hand and treat students for attacks is on its way to Gov. Jay Nixon. School districts would purchase the medication, and the nurses would decide how much to … School Nurses Can Keep Asthma Meds On Hand |
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Fake website, press release target Missouri coal company
CNN The bogus news release said the new initiative was "designed to combat the stigma of asthma among American children." (CNN) — A Missouri-based coal company was the victim of a hoax Tuesday after activists set up a fake website … Peabody Punked by Fake 'Coal Cares' Asthma Site Yes Men Affiliates Prank Peabody Energy Coal company cares about asthma-related bullying—not |
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