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

Center for Community Progress

When left unaddressed, these properties pose significant costs to public health, safety, community wealth, and more,” said Payton Heins, director of Michigan Initiatives for the Center for Community Progress, the nation’s leading nonprofit dedicated to ending systemic vacancy and abandonment.

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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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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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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 "). This clinic is offering low cost basic health care access to people who couldn't otherwise afford it, for $60 per month. Reading room. Teaching Kitchens.

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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And the serious problems of the US public health infrastructure to respond to covid after decades of declining budgets (" COVID-19 and Underinvestment in the Public Health Infrastructure of the United States ," Milbank Quarterly , 2020). And the failure of the Trump Administration to properly respond to covid.