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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

Now working independently, she has published articles in the Boston Globe Magazine and Harvard Public Health Magazine, as well as teaching journalism at Emerson College. She was elected to the AHCJ board in 2009 and currently serves as its president. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

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Why Kaiser bet on Cone Health for its N.C. expansion

NC Health News

We already know exactly what we got from the fee-for-service world, said former Triad Healthcare Network executive director Steve Noerr during a 2020 Duke health policy webinar. Itll deliver expensive, inefficient care, fragmented, low quality, and its a sick care system.

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. Health Systems Didn’t Just “Happen”; Federal Health Policy Actively Catalyzed their Formation. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Managed Competition. premium/PMPM). premium/PMPM). HITech and the ACA. Acknowledgements.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

In 2009, Tim was hired by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center to work on a Wisconsin State Implementation Grant for Improving Services for Children and Youth with ASD awarded by MCHB/HRSA to the Waisman Center and the Wisconsin Title V Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) program.

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How About This Opportunity, Health Tech Investors? Promoting Contraception vs. Banning Abortion

The Health Care Blog

She is currently Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, but also spent years in government, and was on President Obama’s Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health. By MIKE MAGEE. Dr. Linda Rosenstock has an M.D.

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Current, Former CDC Staff Warn Against Slashing Support to Local Public Health Departments

KFF Health News

. “CDC is there to provide technical information, provide funding, provide support, but it’s a collaborative work, working together to keep Americans safe,” said former CDC Director Tom Frieden, who headed the agency from 2009 to 2017. “In this country, we have a patchwork or network of public health.

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Cómo afecta a todos los recortes de personal y dinero en las agencias de salud pública

KFF Health News

. “Los CDC están ahí para proporcionar información técnica, financiación y apoyo, pero es un trabajo colaborativo, trabajando juntos para mantener a los estadounidenses seguros”, dijo el exdirector de los CDC, Tom Frieden, quien dirigió la agencia de 2009 a 2017. Learn more about KFF.