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Anti-Defamation League Task Force Issues Recommendations to Stem Hate That Surged on Social Media During 2016 Presidential Campaign

Follows report detailing surge in online hate targeting journalists during presidential campaign New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–November 17, 2016.  The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Task Force on Harassment and Journalism today issued a broad set of recommendations to reverse a surge in harassment on social media and other online channels. The recommendations follow[Read More…]

HHS and DOJ Issue Joint Guidance for Child Welfare Systems

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 19, 2016.   The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) today issued a joint guidance letter to state and local child welfare systems on the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its implementing regulations. The guidance aims to[Read More…]

Department of Health and Human Services Finalizes Streamlined Medicare Payment System That Rewards Clinicians for Quality Patient Care

MACRA rule will accelerate health care system’s shift toward value Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2016.  Today, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) finalized a landmark new payment system for Medicare clinicians that will continue the Administration’s progress in reforming how the health care system pays for care. The Medicare Access and CHIP[Read More…]

Nutrisystem Retail Division Voluntarily Recalls One Product Containing Chocolate Cookie Dough Pieces

Fort Washington, PA -(ENEWSPF)–October 12, 2016.  Nutrisystem Everyday, LLC, the retail division of Nutrisystem, Inc., is voluntarily recalling the Nutricrush Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough bar, manufactured by Noble Foods, Inc. This bar contains a chocolate chip cookie dough ingredient supplied by a third party supplier, which advised that its ingredient[Read More…]

Ingalls Health System

UChicago Medicine, Ingalls Health System Complete Merger

This is a user-supplied story. Release Says New Alliance Will Offer Unparalleled Care to Chicago’s South Side and Southland Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The University of Chicago Medicine and Ingalls Health System have joined forces in an alliance that combines a top community hospital in Chicago’s Southland with one of the country’s[Read More…]

Preckwinkle Announces Cook County’s New Mapping System

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today announced that Cook County is upgrading its mapping system to better improve efficiency and services to residents and facilitate graphic representations of what would otherwise be available only as statistical data. Previously, only County employees who were experts in Geographic Information Systems[Read More…]

AFL-CIO: Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order Makes Contracting System More Accountable

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2016.  Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order Guidance and Regulations: The AFL-CIO applauds the Administration for moving forward with regulations and guidance implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. This measure will make our contracting system[Read More…]

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