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Better Choice Announces Closing of Expanded Series F Financing and Acceleration of Asian Expansion | Money

October 13, 2020

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Hotel Trades Council Closing Health Centers

October 1, 2020

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Richard Maroko with Brooklyn Health Center & Pharmacy and Harlem Health Center & Pharmacy (New York Hotel Trades Council, Google Maps, Cornell)

Thousands of New York City hotel workers have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus. Now, their union is being forced to slash the health benefits it provides its members.

The New York Hotel Trades Council is shutting down two of its employee health centers — including the $120 million Brooklyn facility it opened in 2017 — and reducing operations at four others in Manhattan and Queens, according to a notice with the state Department of Labor. The other center it’s closing is in Harlem.

The reductions will impact 642 employees at those locations.

The move is a significant blow to the powerful hotel union, which has long been able to provide good-paying jobs for its roughly 40,000 working-class members through tough negotiations with hotel owners to secure

Mercy Health closing Hackley Hospital’s emergency department Oct. 17

October 1, 2020

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Beginning Oct. 18, all emergency care will take place at Mercy Health’s Mercy campus emergency department.

MUSKEGON, Mich. — The emergency department at Mercy Health’s Hackley Hospital is closing this month.

According to a press release from Mercy Health, the Hackley emergency department will close on Oct. 17. Starting Oct. 18, all emergency care will take place at Mercy Health’s Mercy campus emergency department instead. The Mercy campus is located at 1500 E. Sherman Blvd.

The closure of the Hackley emergency department comes as Mercy Health Muskegon finalizes its third and final phase of construction and renovation on its 10-story medical center at the Mercy campus. Hospital officials are preparing to move the Trauma II Emergency Care from Hackely Hospital to the Mercy campus’ medical center, the Fazakerley Family Emergency Center.

The soon-to-be vacated Hackley Emergency Department site will become an urgent care, according to Mercy Health. The urgent care

Is there any evidence that closing bars at 10pm will stem the spread of coronavirus?

October 1, 2020

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It seems that every aspect of Covid-19 will be contested. Students of the history of public health politics will be having a strong sense of deja vu: the field is littered with heated debates that in essence are about numbers.

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As someone who has worked in the field of tobacco control for some 40 years, I have witnessed many such debates. First, there was the question of how risky smoking was; then the addictive nature of tobacco. There were questions over how much safer low-tar cigarettes were. Then, of course, there was the issue of the harmfulness of passive smoking. Most recently there was the claim that e-cigarettes were 95% less harmful than “normal” cigarettes.

To my mind these tobacco control dramas have had one important thing in common: a

WELL Health Announces Closing of $23M Private Placement with Group of Investors Led by Mr. Li Ka-shing

September 30, 2020

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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 30, 2020 /CNW/ – WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (the “Company” or “WELL“), a company focused on consolidating and modernizing clinical and digital assets within the primary healthcare sector, is pleased to announce that it has closed its non-brokered private placement (the “Offering“) of 4,821,803 common shares (each, a “Share“) in the capital of the Company, at a price per share of $4.77, for aggregate gross proceeds of $23,000,000, as previously announced in the Company’s news release dated September 1, 2020. The subscribers to the Offering were a group of investors led by Hong Kong business leader Mr. Li Ka-shing.

The net proceeds of the Offering are expected to be primarily used to fund and support the proposed