NC Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press When was the last time you knew the full cost of a medical procedure before going under? Hospital price transparency has been enforced by the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services since 2021, but whether the law is functioning as intended is a topic of heated debate.
Public Health Law Center
DECEMBER 15, 2021
E-Cigarette Regulations - 50 State Review This snapshot of U.S. e-cigarette regulations is based on a survey of current state statutes in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., Note: this is a summary of state laws; cities, counties, and Tribes may have adopted other e-cigarette measures. and five U.S.
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The Health Care Blog
AUGUST 9, 2022
Required staffing ratios and other regulations make child care exceedingly expensive for parents. How about this: a 2021 survey found that 90% of hospital nurses are considering leaving in the next year. history, race, racism, gender and sexual orientation, as well as LGBTQ issues. nurses are women. . Well, we’re in 2022, and Ms.
NC Health News
DECEMBER 21, 2024
by Lucas Thomae and Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press State oversight of nursing homes received a scathing performance audit, released on Wednesday. The DHHS Division of Health Service Regulations role is to routinely inspect those nursing homes and investigate complaints involving them. 1, 2019, through Dec.
Frontiers
MARCH 24, 2023
Ecosystem health, and by extension human health, have been treated as externalities for too long. The true costs of degrading public waters are often borne by individuals and communities who did not decide to pollute them and who do not benefit from their degradation.
Big Cities Health Coalition
OCTOBER 24, 2024
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.
Sheffield DPH
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Currently that isn’t in the interests of public health IMO in many areas. If we had settled for pragmatism in say smoking we may still have voluntary self reg on smoking in public places. This needs to be explained to the public and debated in public. Who is doing the critical policy analysis of this.
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