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...create a separate wellness program for its diabetic employees, based on their specific needs and unique barriers to care. Today Amica covers all co-pays on necessary diabetes drugs but only for patients who attend five key annual preventive-health checkups, including an eye exam and a foot exam. Within eight months of the program's launch in 2008, about half of Amica's diabetic employees were enrolled. It was a win-win situation: members had saved nearly $35,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, and Amica's health-care costs on compliant members dropped 50% within a year. Best...
...black schools, Savannah included, have their problems. Nationwide, 41% of black students graduate from college within six years (for white students, the figure is 59%). The rate is lower at the majority of HBCUs, which often accept low-performing students who may not have been given a chance elsewhere. At Savannah State, the figure hovers around 35%. A bigger problem is money: HBCUs are chronically underfunded, and Savannah State--with an endowment of just $3.4 million, compared with Armstrong's $7.9 million--is no exception. Harp expects the merger to help close that gap, an aspect of the plan that...
...California Decrowding The Prisons A federal panel has tentatively ruled that California's prison population--about 153,000 inmates spread over 33 facilities--must be reduced by as many as 55,000 within three years. The decision is the culmination of a long-running attempt to remedy the state prison system's problems with overcrowding and poor medical care...
There is, however, a hopeful double paradox within this daunting challenge. For the first time in recent history, the U.S. and China find themselves with a demonstrably common interest. Equally significant, as the self-confidence and influence of the U.S. waned under the Bush Administration, the Sino-U.S. playing field has become more level than ever before. When it comes to climate change, we are both sinners before the Lord. This state of parity, however accidentally it may have been arrived at, presents a new psychological climate where the kind of equal partnership for which the Chinese have long...
With no titles to label them, the artwork featured in “Seven” serves as an invitation to journey into the lives of the unidentified people within them. The exhibit—presented by Harvard Real Estate Services in Holyoke Center Arcade through March 4—features pieces by Keina Davis Elswick from the past seven years. Elswick uses portraiture to add an element of the poetic to the everyday. The color blue, a color that Elswick likes for its ability to communicate melancholy, is used throughout her work. The emotion conveyed through the artwork transforms...