These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.

This past June, Ashley Voss-Barnes received a court summons in the mail.

PrairieStar Health Center, a nonprofit community health center in south-central Kansas, was suing her for $675 and her wife for $732 in unpaid medical bills. Voss-Barnes knew the clinic received federal funding to make preventive health care accessible in a region where many families, including her own, needed financial help.

Nearly 44% of the 16,000 truck driving programs listed nationwide by the government may be forced to close if they lose their students after a review by the federal Transportation Department found they may not be complying with minimum requirements.

LAUREL — Although it took 74-year-old Linda Lund some time to come around to Hillcrest Care Center and Assisted Living, she eventually insisted it was home.

Lund, who has dementia, became attached to the city-owned nursing home and the people in it after adjusting, said her daughter Brenda Anderson.