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dr.  Biljana Simikic

Commonwealth Care Alliance aims to improve healthcare for people with disabilities

dr. Biljana Simikic Recently, a team of researchers, including from the University of Massachusetts Medical School at Worcester, published a study which found that the attitude of many physicians towards patients with disabilities is a significant barrier to care. In the focus groups, nearly all participating physicians said they had little or no training on …

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Former local director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness charged with embezzlement of nonprofit funds

Former local director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness charged with embezzlement of nonprofit funds

Rain expected for the Christmas parade on Saturday morning The former executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in central Virginia has been accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from the nonprofit by misusing credit cards and forging and cashing fraudulent checks on the account of the organization from 2019 to 2021. Mark …

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