The only hospital in rural Pickens County, Ala., closed its doors for good just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. It was March 2020. The west Alabama county sits […]
Category: Health
Georgia factory worker, fired after miscarriage scare, sues employer
Seven days after Georgia mom Kaytiara McAlister learned she was pregnant, that pregnancy cost her job, according to a new federal lawsuit.. McAlister claims she was fired from her job at a manufacturing center […]
‘Come to church, we have the best sex’
John Paul Basham remembers, when he was a teenager, participating in a sexual abstinence program called True Love Waits at his Southern Baptist church in Hoover, Ala. in the late 1990s. In […]
Working parents find few solutions as school looms
Every time Priscilla and Ellery Curtis begin talking about what to do about school in a few weeks for their two children, the discussion grinds […]
Half of Alabama’s daycares are still closed.
Every two weeks, Melissa Moody draws a little more money from her personal savings and puts it into the day care she’s been operating in […]
Daycares can reopen but will parents return?
Alabama day cares can open if they keep fewer than 12 kids to a classroom, according to Gov. Kay Ivey’s “safer at home” order, announced […]
24 hours in a COVID-19 unit
6 a.m. Jake Perkins, 24, zips through downtown Birmingham on his bike, heading toward UAB Hospital. He’s a registered nurse, working in the medical intensive […]
‘We’re the front lines’
On the day after rural Bibb County got its first confirmed coronavirus case, nurses and staff at a small testing clinic in Centreville gathered at […]
New moms face suspicion over error-prone drug screens
Christen Townsend didn’t know it yet, but she was in danger of losing custody of the baby that hospital staff were prepping her to deliver. […]
How one Alabama woman bridges healthcare gaps in the Black Belt
Keshee Dozier-Smith hurried through the basement door of the aging Uniontown Municipal Building. She ignored the lectern at the front of the room where she […]