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DisabilitiesFeatured PieceGovernmentStone's ThrowThe Examiner

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Job Program Fails Disabled Locals

June 12, 2023 Adam Stone Bedford,  Mount Kisco,  New Castle,  New York State,  Westchester County,  White Plains

Our Special Report Shows How Area People in Need ‘Fall Off a Cliff’ After High School This is the second installment in a continuing series about issues impacting local people with disabilities, and the need for improvement. By Adam Stone

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Bridging Digital Divide for the Disabled Remains a ‘Big Deal’

June 5, 2023 Adam Stone Bedford,  New Castle,  New Rochelle

New Rochelle’s Ann Chiappetta, like most blind people, maneuvers around all manner of challenges on a daily basis that most folks likely never consider. For instance, in our digital age, just imagine what it’s like to navigate a website that

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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION – Banned from Care: Stillbirth Mother Recounts ‘Traumatic’ Termination from Optum/CareMount

April 10, 2023 Adam Stone

  This is the fifth installment in a series about Optum/CareMount and broader local healthcare issues. Local Woman Endures Harrowing Healthcare Experience, Fraught Medical Records Fiasco By Adam Stone It’s impossible to overstate the level of heartbreak and trauma Katonah’s

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CareMount Lobbying State on Medicare-related Interests 

January 30, 2023 Adam Stone

Evolving Role of Private Industry Both Entices and Unsettles Seniors This column is part of a series on CareMount / Optum and wider local healthcare issues.  Sometimes when you write a column – hopefully most of the time – you

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Examiner Probe Uncovers ‘Restrictive’ Employment Contract at Optum; Veteran CareMount Doctors Feel ‘Trapped’

January 15, 2023 Adam Stone

This piece is part of a series about Optum/CareMount and local healthcare. It was Dec. 4, 2020, and 264 CareMount shareholders — the healthcare group’s doctors — awoke that morning to a potentially exciting, enriching, and career-altering day they hoped

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Optum Problems Contribute to Broader ER Surge at NWH 

December 29, 2022 Adam Stone Mount Kisco

Issue Captures Attention of Local Lawmaker This column is the second installment of a multi-part series about concerns at Optum. Since publishing an in-depth column earlier this month on the vexing issues at Optum Tri-State medical group – the former CareMount/former MKMG

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Optum: ‘Special Place’ Beset by Maddening Phone Woes, Alleged Doctor Shortages 

December 10, 2022 Adam Stone Mount Kisco

While my favorite type of written-word journalism to read is often the straightforward, balanced news report, the format and its rightful traditions sometimes put the squeeze on important truth-telling. In late July, a respected member of the community, Bedford Corners

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