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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some are affiliated with the new hospital (" Mayor Bowser Celebrates the Topping Out of Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center GW Health on the St. It also discusses how traditional 12-step and similar programs don't work for a lot of people, and prescription drug support that can reduce cravings often isn't available. =

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Defining Open Data

GovLoop

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. It is the first national geographical tool that measures — and releases to the public — cumulative environmental impacts and related public health vulnerability.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

providing high quality people spaces within a hospital complex becomes very difficult (" Penn’s new hospital belatedly recognizes pedestrian space is a public health issue "). Hospitals can be strong supporters of community development efforts, but it has to be designed into the program from the outset. HealthLine in Cleveland.

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New “Blight Elimination Program” Offers Transformative Grant Funding to Rural and Urban Michigan Communities

Center for Community Progress

In Michigan, land banks are quasi-governmental entities, created pursuant to Michigan’s Land Bank Fast Track Act (Public Act 258 of 2003), and represent rural and urban communities across the state. “Vacant properties are a statewide issue. Leadership included Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Jim Stamas (R-36), Sen.

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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As a term, apparently it was coined in development economics, making the point that as countries grow in population, there is less money invested in per capita (" Population Pressures, Saving, and Investment in the Third World: Some Puzzles ," Economic Development and Cultural Change , 1988).