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Thousands of rural residents in several central Arizona towns and cities could soon lose in-network access to Dignity Health’s Yavapai Regional Medical Center.

The Arizona Department of Health Services has awarded nearly $6.5 million to Northern Arizona University to help alleviate the state’s nursing shortage.

A federal judge who previously concluded Arizona was providing inadequate medical and mental health care to prisoners said she will give the state three months to ensure it has enough health care professionals to meet constitutional standards.

University of Arizona Health Sciences is set to receive more than $7 million in state and federal funding to continue growing the health professions workforce statewide, focusing on rural and urban communities that are medically underserved. Arizona's three public universities will collaborate on the program.

An estimated 75% of Arizonans have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 63% are considered fully vaccinated.

A federal appeals court ordered a new hearing for Arizona community health care centers that claim the state’s Medicaid system is wrongly denying reimbursement for chiropractic, dental, optometric and podiatric care.

A new poll finds a growing percentage of Americans want the federal government to prioritize reproductive rights and abortion care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Arizona is in the midst of a surge in Alzheimer’s patients that is rising at the fastest rate in the nation, a crisis advocates fear the state is not prepared to cope with. The Alzheimer’s Association has released a report that estimates cases in Arizona will increase from 150,000 in 2020 to 200,000 by 2025, a 33% increase that would be the fastest in the nation over that five-year period.

Rates of hospitalization and amputations among racial and ethnic minority adults with diabetic foot ulcers decreased in states that adopted Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. That’s the finding of a new study from the University of Arizona Health Sciences.

A new medical center in the Navajo Nation community of Dilkon is nearly complete. The 154,000-square-foot facility will serve areas in the southwest portion of the reservation.