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Nine Days of Heat Filled Meridian General, and the Gap Was Nurses, Not Beds
The hospital held. The county’s cooling network did not, and the people who ran it are not coming back next summer for $19 an hour.
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Hearing Loss Shows Up Two Decades Early in Harbor Engine Crews
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Meridian Community Clinic Extends Evening Hours
Primary care appointments after work are scarce citywide; one clinic is testing whether staffing models can bend.
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Health Department Tightens Air-Quality Alert Protocols
Faster notifications and clearer school guidance follow a smoky week that left parents guessing.
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Hospital Adds Peer Navigators to Emergency Intake
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School District Doubles Local Produce in Lunch Contracts
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A Mobile Pharmacy Unit Targets the South Ridges
Where storefront pharmacies closed, a van with a pharmacist and secure inventory begins weekly stops.
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Local Study Recruits Shift Workers for Sleep and Heart Research
Dock, hospital, and bakery schedules are the inclusion criteria - not a lab’s convenience sample.