Health Care

Gov. Katie Hobbs tours Sunset Health clinic in Yuma, hears from officials and patients as Republicans look to cut Medicaid.

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs brought nearly a dozen hospital officials to the Capitol Thursday as part of a public relations effort to quash cuts to Medicaid approved by the Republican-controlled U.S. House. Hobbs is in Yuma today.

An inmate who died in June at the state prison in Yuma just days after undergoing hernia repair surgery succumbed from an unrelated and natural cause, according to an autopsy performed after a federal judge overseeing historically bad Arizona prisoner healthcare ordered the death review.

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Dr. Kristina Diaz is chief academic officer and program director of the Yuma Regional Medical Center Family and Community Medicine Residency Program.Dr. Diaz is also President of the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians and the National Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.

Arizonans are likely to get a chance to decide in November whether to provide new protections for themselves against medical and other debt.

Sunset officials say they will offer vaccines and booster shots next week as part of a Family COVID-19 Vaccination Event.

By Howard FischerCapitol Media ServicesPHOENIX -- Two Republican legislators and Attorney General Mark Brnovich are taking the first steps to craft…