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Medicaid Recertification: What You Need to Know to Stay Covered

Arkansas stopped disenrolling Medicaid beneficiaries in 2020 per the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which increased federal funds to match state funds for Medicaid during the public health emergency. Dr. Riklon explains more about medicaid and medicaid recertification in this previous post. Last December, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law last December, issued the […]

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Typhoon Leaves Most of Guam without Power

English, Island Life / Melanie

Typhoon Mawar passed over Guam Wednesday night (5 pm local time and 2 am CST) with sustained winds of 140 mph and gusts up to 165 mph, the equivalent of a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane. The center of the storm was located 15 miles north-northeast of Guam and was moving northwest at a slow 8

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What is going on with Medicaid?

Archives (Chikin Melele), English / Chikin Melele

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States government declared a public health emergency, which gave the federal government flexibility to respond to the unique circumstances the country was facing. As part of this state of emergency, states were not allowed to end Medicaid coverage for most beneficiaries, which meant those enrolled

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Miss Marshall Islands Presents Scholarship Options for Education Week

English, Island Life / Melanie

Miss Marshall Islands, Claret Chong Gum (who had represented Jaluit in the Miss Marshall Islands 2023) is visiting high schools in the RMI throughout Education Week. Claret and her colleagues started the week with a visit to Majuro Cooperative High School and Delap Seventh-day Adventist School to present scholarship requirements and criteria with the ministry

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Community Support for Vaccination Outreach in Hawaii

COVID-19, English / Melanie

February, 1st, 2022, Honolulu, HI Marshallese Community Organization of Hawaii Press Release On Saturday, January 29th, the Marshallese Community Organization of Hawaii (MCOH) hosted a COVID-19 vaccine clinic that drew record numbers of participants in the heart of Waipahu. MCOH partnered with other local non-profits, including nurses from Project Vision, as well as the Hawaii

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Icy Weather through Thursday in Southern States

Climate Adaptation, English, Marshallese / Melanie

Another winter weather system is moving east from Texas bringing ice, sleet, and snow to the region. The current winter weather alerts will impact nearly 40 million people in Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia. Monday and Tuesday January 30 and 31, several airports in Texas, including Dallas Love, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and Houston Bush

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Executive Orders Target Radical Left Agendas and Prohibits the X in Latinx

Community Journalism, English / Melanie

In the first week of taking office, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed several executive orders one of which establishes a policy regarding the use of “Latinx” in government documents. The executive order, signed on January 10, 2023, claims to “respect the Latino community by eliminating culturally insensitive words from official use.” It requires that

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Chuuk Adapts to Life after COVID-19 Resuming Goodwill Games and Holiday Celebrations

English, Island Life / Melanie

With quarantine protocols still in place through the end of October, the school year had just started in Chuuk and the State Government was working to complete renovations on the main hospital in Weno. However, that was quickly curtailed with the Chuuk State and FSM Government announced confirmed community transmission of COVID-19 in Chuuk, the

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No Shore Left Untouched: COVID-19 in Chuuk

COVID-19, English / Melanie

The first cases of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan China in December 2019 proceeded to spread around the globe hitting big countries hard in 2020 with successive waves of mutated strains like the Delta variant in 2021 and Omicron in 2022. Micronesian countries, however, were able to isolate themselves from the first several variants and bide

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COVID-19 after Three Years

COVID-19, English / Melanie

As subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus variant continue to circulate around the world, the virus will continue to pick up mutations along the way. Since the Omicron variant was identified at the end of November 2021, there have been several subvariants but no major evolutions in the virus that have been able to evade the

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