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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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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. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2

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How a Proposed Federal Heat Rule Might Have Saved These Workers’ Lives

KFF Health News

On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. ” Two days later, her brother, Jose Leandro-Barrera, died at age 45 with acute kidney failure caused by heatstroke, according to a report from the Hillsborough County medical examiner. .” Ramones said.

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Proposed federal heat rule might have saved these workers’ lives

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. Ramones said.