Daily News Roundup
March 29 and 30, 2024
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary: How Two Crises Converged to Forge a Path to the Future
By Denise Rivette At about the time two sibling wolf pups were first exploring the rundown eastern Canadian menagerie where they were born, two older wolf hybrids (also siblings) in another country and a world away were going for a last grand adventure that would predicate habitat changes at their home in the well-run Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary that would make possible the eventual rescue of those Canadian pups. In turn, those pups would help fill the void that would soon be left by the deaths of the older wolves, Ginny and Dakota. But not before Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary faced an existential crisis of its own.
Your Doctor or Your Insurer? Little-Known Rules May Ease the Choice in Medicare Advantage
By Susan Jaffe for KFF Health News Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could keep either their private, Medicare Advantage insurance plan — or their doctors at Saratoga Hospital.
Weekly Health Numbers
By Denise Rivette Level of Respiratory Illness Activity Across the Country for Week Ended March 23, 2024 Information provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Montana Respiratory Illness Statistics State information provided by Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS)