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Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez is the Nevada correspondent for KFF Health News. She explores the ways health issues affect communities in rural areas, including food security, climate change, and agriculture practices.

Tribal health workers aren’t paid like their peers. See why Nevada changed that.

By: - September 1, 2023

FALLON, Nev. — Linda Noneo turned up the heat in her van to ward off the early morning chill that persists in northern Nevada’s high desert even in late June. As the first rays of daylight broke over a Christian cross on the top a hill near the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone colony, she drove toward her […]