| Namibia: Khowarib Campsite Gets Facelift
THE Namibia Community-Based Tourism Assistance Trust (Nacobta) is not yet financially secure but it hopes things will improve in the future. Nacobta's Executive Director, Olga Katjiuongua, says they have submitted several funding proposals and they have also transformed the NGO from an association to a trust. .
Health: Woody says billing needs a facelift
The statistics on national health care coverage are astounding. Somewhere between 46 and 49 million Americans are without health care coverage, Navarro Regional CEO Fred Woody said. Seventeen million earn more than $50,000 annually. So why is health care coverage out of the question for so many in our nation?Woody believes the rising premium costs as well as the lack of available resources to make the deductibles contributes heavily to the problem. The state of Texas has the highest percentage of non-elderly uninsured people at 27.3 percent, according to the U.S Census Bureau."That number continues to grow each year," Woody said.So who pays the bill if a patient comes in for treatment and cannot afford it? Each hospital swallows the cost of the uninsured or unable to pay individual, Woody said, a price tag that costs millions across the nation.Navarro Regional loses millions each year due to patients not paying their hospital bills.The hospitals, staff and physicians all feel the effects of individuals receiving service and not paying.
Renown Health opens medical group office
Renown Health has opened a 5,900-square-foot medical group office at 6570 S. McCarran Boulevard in Reno. The office will provide health care needs including cosmetic laser surgery, executive physicals and community wellness lectures. Renown formerly was known as Washoe Medical Center, the largest health care provider in Northern Nevada. .
Names in the news - Local doc on `Millionaire'
Chris Killion, an emergency room doctor at Akron Children's Hospital, will be in the hot seat on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire tonight and Friday. The show airs locally on WOIO (Channel 19) at 7 p.m. Killion, 31, took his wife, Angela, a pediatrician, to the taping. He has said that if he won big, he would pay off his school loans, save for a house and take a vacation in Hawaii or Europe. News for the nosy Yes, Jennifer Aniston got a nose job -- just not the kind of nose job you'd think an actress might get. ``It's funny. I had (a deviated septum) fixed -- best thing I ever did,'' she says in an interview posted Wednesday on People magazine's Web site. ``I slept like a baby for the first time in years. As far as all the other (rumors), as boring as it sounds, it's still mine.
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