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Former Birmingham Health Care CFO sentenced in $11 million fraud

Former Birmingham Health Care CFO sentenced in $11 million fraud

Birmingham Health Care's former chief financial officer, who last year pleaded guilty to stealing $1.7 million from the federally-funded center for the poor and homeless, was sentenced Tuesday to serve 17 years in prison.Terri McGuire Mollica, 50, also was ordered by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Karon O. Bowdre to serve five years under supervised probation once she is released.Bowdre called Mollica a "calculating and vindictive" person who didn't show acceptance of responsibility.


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Study: Frequent Marijuana Consumers Not More Likely To Access Health Care Services

Study: Frequent Marijuana Consumers Not More Likely To Access Health Care Services

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy DirectorMarijuana consumers do not access health care services at rates that are higher than non-users, according to data published online ahead of print in the European Journal of Internal Medicine.Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin assessed the relationship between marijuana use and health care utilization in a nationally representative sample of 174,159,864 US adults aged 18 to 59 years old.Authors reported "no significant increase in outpatient health care visits and overnight hospital admissions in marijuana users compared to non-users." They also reported that those who consumed cannabis multiple times per day were no more likely to seek health care patient services as compared to those who used the substance less frequently.


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New Potential Health Care Option For One North MS Area

New Potential Health Care Option For One North MS Area

COLUMBUS, Miss.(WCBI)- There could soon be a new health care option for Columbus, Lowndes County and Columbus Light and Water employees.Medical Analysis makes a pitch to create a private clinic for those workers.


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Study Shows Most Of Nashville's Venture Capital Still Goes To Health Care

Study Shows Most Of Nashville's Venture Capital Still Goes To Health Care

Hear the radio version of this story.There's more venture capital money floating around Nashville, and most of it is still going into the health care business.The city's investors and health care executives have compiled a report that finds in the last 10 years, $1.6 billion has been poured into local startups, 60 percent of that went into health care.