The Legislative Assembly has debated a bill to update hospital classifications across the state's public health system, designed to strengthen nurse-to-patient and midwife-to-patient ratios.

The U of A has been approved for $30.6 million to support research conducted as part of a large public health initiative to implement and evaluate prehospital blood transfusion.

There was a 911 outage in the Bronx overnight Tuesday, the mayor's office confirmed Wednesday. The outage impacted about 1,700 calls, officials said.

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