Alabama Department of Public Health

Some state officials welcomed the funding from the CDC, released in two fifty million dollar tranches in August and September as a bulwark against future outbreaks.

"Our state has not yet seen a large outbreak as in some other states like Pennsylvania or South Carolina, but we fully expect to see more cases here," said Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer at the Alabama Department of Public Health.

Alabama received three hundred thousand for measles immunization programs and six hundred thousand for surveillance and diagnosis, he said.

The funding is intended for immunization programs and for efforts to improve measles surveillance, including diagnoses of severe infections and cases in pregnant women and infants.

But it's something that I, that, that's had to be a real priority in my life and, and it needs to be a priority in everyone's life.

And so we're gonna be creating content that helps people do that, [lips smack] and we're also gonna have an investigative side that's digging into, uh, all of the corruption in the medical establishment, in the medical institutions here in the state of Alabama, be it Blue Cross Blue Shield of, uh, of Alabama and all the things going on there, uh, whether it's the Alabama Department of Public Health, whether it's these huge hospitals, UAB and these schools.

Um, there's no shortage of things to talk about and investigate, and Daniel Taylor is our journalist that's now gonna be dedicated to this.

If you'd like to donate towards the Make Alabama Healthy initiative and us digging into, um, these things, um, maybe you could make your year-end gift towards the Make Alabama Healthy initiative, uh, that, and that gift will be doubled.

And so we're gonna be creating content that helps people do that.

Uh, and we're also gonna have an investigative side that's digging into, uh, all of the corruption in the medical establishment, in the medical institutions here in the state of Alabama, be it Blue Cross Blue Shield of, uh, of Alabama and all the things going on there, uh, whether it's the Alabama Department of Public Health, whether it's these huge hospitals, UAB, and these schools.

Um, there's no shortage of things to talk about and investigate, and Daniel Taylor is our journalist that's now gonna be dedicated to this.

If you'd like to donate towards the Make Alabama Healthy Initiative and us digging into, um, these things, um, maybe you could make your year-end gift towards the Make Alabama Healthy Initiative, uh, th- and that gift will be doubled, huh? We just talked about that.

Baptist Health does not sponsor H-1B visas.

However, it will accept J-1 visas if sponsored by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.

The Alabama Department of Public Health offe- also offers a state thirty J-1 visa waiver program to improve access to healthcare in medically at-risk groups of the state, particularly designate- d- designated shortage areas.

The program waives home country return and prioritizes primary care and mental health physicians.

It was like, she snapped her fingers and it was done.

I'm like, huh? I wish we could have done that with the Alabama department of public health.

Yeah, it's amazing what you can do under different circumstances.

The things that tie your hands in one instance somehow don't exist in the second instance.