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Shalina Chatlani

Shalina is the national health care reporter for the States Newsroom. She is focused on in-depth accountability journalism that looks at the changing landscape of health care infrastructure in the nation, and whether local legislatures are prioritizing underserved communities.

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As COVID protections end, patients classified as ‘medically needy’ fear new barriers to care

By: Shalina Chatlani - March 10, 2023

Courtney Blake and her 10-year-old daughter live on their own in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Both of them struggle with chronic mental health issues and have been using Medicaid to help pay for their behavioral health care needs. But like millions of people across the country, Blake is worried that at the end of this health emergency […]

Lila Bonow, Alana Edmondson and Aiyana Knauer prepare to take abortion pill while demonstrating in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C. With the addition of conservative justices to the court by former President Donald Trump, experts believe this could be the most important abortion case in decades and could undermine or overturn Roe v. Wade. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Remaining abortion clinics face more challenges if abortion pill limited by Texas judge

By: Shalina Chatlani - March 2, 2023

JACKSON, MISS. The Pink House — otherwise known as Jackson Women’s Health Organization — was the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned the federal right to abortion in June. Today, the clinic, the only abortion clinic to serve Mississippi and the greater area for years, is shuttered. On a hot day in […]

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