October 2012
The University of Michigan’s C.S.Design-Build Institute Announces Annual Awards
The Design-Built Institute of America recently announced several of its 2012 national award winners, given to projects that successfully embrace the design-build principle of a construction management firm taking the lead on a project from day one and guiding it from the initial proposal through to completion.
President Increases Efforts to Prevent Suicide Among Veterans
The federal government doubled down on its commitment to mental health care for veterans in September, when President Barack Obama signed an executive order calling for increased access to behavioral health care. The goal of the initiative is to reduce the rates of suicide and untreated mental health disorders affecting veterans and active duty troops. Mental health is increasingly becoming a more recognizable and less taboo topic among veterans over time, as the long-term impacts of serving one’s country become more obvious and accepted over time.
Arkansas Begins Controversial Health Care Program
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe is about to conduct an experiment intended to lower his state’s health care costs and make insurance more affordable for its residents. Arkansas ranks relatively low among its fellow states in terms of its citizens’ overall health and income, while simultaneously being on the higher side when it comes to rising health care costs, which have doubled in the last ten years. This creates a difficult situation for the state, its low-income residents and the hospitals they cannot afford to pay.