The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

The new system is meant to ensure that every person experiencing a mental health crisis will receive a mental health response instead— help, not handcuffs. Ben Wheatley has 25 years of experience working in health policy with organizations including AcademyHealth, the Institute of Medicine, and Kaiser Permanente.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Before joining the Fund in 2013, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University. with his wife, Colette Cook.

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PHAB

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The top doctor leading Michigans COVID response, she is credited with the states early identification of and actions to decrease disparities and in 2021 was appointed to the nations Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Michigan, M.D.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 9, 2024

In 2021, the CDC shortened its recommended isolation period for people with Covid-19 to five days, down from 10 days, in most cases. The agency’s guidance became even less restrictive this year, though some public health experts urge stricter measures to stop the spread of disease. Dr. Bruce Y.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Cases plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic to a low of 2,116 nationally in 2021, CDC data shows. Health officials said the decrease likely came from people isolating, masking and washing hands more during the pandemic. Once a vaccine was developed in the 1940s, U.S.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Juxtaposed against this struggle is the optimism for digital health – one of the few bright spots of the pandemic. We have witnessed a veritable digital health revolution – record capital infusions of $37.9 and 263 per 100,000, respectively, in non-rural areas.

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Maternal Health Task Force

MARCH 18, 2024

She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. By: Jodian Pinkney , Infectious Diseases Physician.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

How about this: a 2021 survey found that 90% of hospital nurses are considering leaving in the next year. Once again, this disproportionately impacts women; 86% of U.S. nurses are women. .

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

There’s the ( potential ) Amazon – One Medical acquisition, the CVS – Signify Health deal , and the Walmart – United Healthcare Medicare Advantage collaboration. Digital health funding may be in somewhat of a slump , but that’s only compared to 2021’s crazy numbers. Alphabet’s just raised $1b.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 24, 2022

We have mostly military reports because that is what has been collected, since the military has stepped up its own reporting since its June 2021 report to Congress. Both the officials and the legislators agreed it might be helpful if there was a central way to compile civilian reports. So, maybe UAPs are, indeed, aliens.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In 3Q 2021, Domino’s suffe red its first decline in same-store sales in over a decade; initially, the pandemic had been very good for pizza sales, but the combination of fewer workers, higher supply prices, and ongoing competition took its toll.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

——— Pew found that the percentage of non-parents under 50 who expect to have children jumped from 37% in 2018 to 44% in 2021. It’s hard to say which is more depressing. Current parents who don’t expect to have more children edged up slightly (71% to 74%).

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I have to make the obligatory post-script here that I oversaw the administration of hundreds of mrna vaccines starting in March of 2021 in my cardiology clinic. Viral Myalgia is a very smart doctor and data scientist (follow him on twitter @contrarian4data). Update at Western University.

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2024

At one point in late 2021, VillageMD CEO Tim Barry told me that their main issue was the execution risk of having to open more clinics per week then Starbucks did at the height of its expansion. Around a year later Walmart declared that it couldn’t staff its clinics, was losing a fortune on each one, and it tossed the whole business.

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Maternal Health Task Force

JANUARY 24, 2024

By: Katarzyna Borkowski , Former FDA ORISE Fellow, working with the Office of Medical Policy; current oncology research nurse at the NIH.; Maggie McCoy , Former Health Policy and Communications Intern with the Cure Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, currently works in communications and development at an education-focused nonprofit.;

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 30, 2024

Placed alongside the photos are quotes from residents about the challenges they face paying bills and raising children, how housing affects health, and how the arts promote mental health in people of all ages. The exhibit is part of a partnership between the city and Morehouse School of Medicine that started in 2021.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The central findings of the audit are as follows: The division did not conduct timely inspections of nursing homes during the period of March 1, 2021, through Dec. The division did not complete investigations of nursing home complaints within the time frame prescribed by state law during the period of Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2023.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 1, 2021

SS: In the context of 2021-2030 being declared by WHO as the decade of healthy aging, what are you most excited about currently in the field? MSK: The field is really exploding currently. In particular, on the industry side multiple new companies are emerging that are aiming to target aging and age-associated pathologies.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Vasan Launch Ambitious Whole-of-government Campaign To Extend Lifespan Of All New Yorkers “HealthyNYC” Aims to Increase Life Expectancy to 83 Years by 2030, Focuses on Reducing Chronic Disease, Overdose, Maternal Mortality Deaths, and More New Yorkers Have Seen Lifespans Fall at Historic Rates Between 2019 and 2021, Dropping Nearly Two Years to 80.7

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Along with the safety issue as spreading out the doses lowers the myocarditis/pericarditis risk , this guideline change also dovetails with some findings during the first have of 2021 suggesting that spacing the two jabs from 4 weeks to 8 weeks, and especially 12 weeks, might provide better immunity , although that issue is now subject to a fairly (..)

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In a stunning rapid fire $20 billion acquisition spree from 2019 to 2021, UnitedHealth Group bought Equian, Change Healthcare and naviHealth. The US Department of Justice unsuccessfully challenged the largest of these transactions–the Change Healthcare acquisition– on anti-trust grounds.

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Sheffield DPH

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Is the issue a lack of funding, corporate conduct, or a lack of political will to implement public health policies? What implication does this have for the rate at which the levy or fine is set? What assumptions are being made? What about the equity considerations?

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A resilient, well-funded, and equitable public health infrastructure is essential to addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes for urban populations nationwide. To do its work well, the public health workforce should be protected from undue partisan political influence.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

The elephant in the room that the CDC advisory group addressed is the risk of myocarditis from the vaccines that has been widely reported since April of 2021 by multiple groups and countries. The goal per CDC director Walensky was to “protect our children and teens from the complications of severe COVID-19 disease”.

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The Network for Public Health Law

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Network for Public Health Law has announced the launch of the Racial Equity Dataset, an interactive online tool that provides extensive data on enacted laws in the 2021 and 2022 legislative cycles related to furthering or hindering racial equity, across the 50 U.S.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services toward the end of 2020 released guidance that requires labs to include race and ethnicity — along with age, sex and ZIP code — when reporting COVID-19 test results, this data wasn’t required prior to August 2021.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

The ACA’s remarkable safety net framework made it far easier for policy makers to deploy federal funds during this unprecedented emergency. trillion coronavirus relief bill signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021, included provisions that built on the ACA, including more generous premium tax credit subsidies.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

surgeon general declared gun violence a public health crisis in June, but nearly any new regulation on guns is a political nonstarter in Missouri. ’ The U.S. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

A science journalist who interviewed Malone in mid-2021, just prior to Malone’s rise to public prominence, Dolgin emphasizes that Malone deserves credit for the conceptual leap that he made as a graduate student. That happened at the University of California at San Diego, at the Salk Institute, where Malone was on track to earn a PhD.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

De hecho, hubo una ley estatal de 2021 —firmada en la misma armería de Kansas City donde se compró una de las armas utilizadas en el tiroteo del desfile— que tenía como objetivo prohibir que la policía local aplicara las leyes federales sobre armas de fuego. . Aunque el cirujano general de EE.UU. Learn more about KFF.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But pretending that most public health policies were largely failures isn’t helpful either. What is the decision framework for closing and reopening schools in future pandemics? The discussion has to be serious, genuine, and balanced. Refusing to acknowledge mistakes is not helpful.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

These surveys were redone in 2021 and reconfirmed significant reductions in procedure times. In the case of ablations, surveys of electrophysiologists executed by professional organizations in the fall of 2020 demonstrated notable reductions in procedure times.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rather than focusing on self-care alone, she pushes for policies to ensure adequate staffing at health facilities and accommodations for mental health issues. Another was “hazard compensation during public health emergencies.” Fair pay was among the solutions listed in the surgeon general’s report on burnout.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2021, screening ages have been lowered; colon cancer screening now starts at 45 and breast cancer at 40 for average-risk individuals. In the U.S., projections suggest that by 2030, one-third of colorectal cancer cases will be in individuals under 50. Its already the leading cause of cancer deaths in men younger than 50.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

En 2021, los legisladores de California aprobaron una ley que exige que los centros de detención privados cumplan con las órdenes de salud pública estatales y locales, así como con las regulaciones de seguridad y salud laboral. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

. “Me sorprendería que los CDC no estuvieran en el radar” de posibles cambios, dijo Anne Schuchat, ex subdirectora principal de la agencia, que se jubiló en 2021. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Dr Drew Harris (@ drewaharris ), a health policy and population health educator, tweeted a modified version of a CDC graphic showing how protective measures could be used to slow daily cases of a disease. I’m one of the people behind that GIF. It was inspired by a tweet I saw in late February 2020.

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