The Health Care Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The New 911 for Mental Health Crises. Beginning in July 2022, a new 3-digit telephone number (988) will be implemented to address mental health crises, cases involving substance use disorder (SUD), and individuals in emotional and/or suicidal distress. Ben Wheatley is a senior health policy advisor with Kaiser Permanente.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In counties such as Santa Clara, where Aedes mosquitoes first appeared in 2022 but have yet to establish themselves, officials hope to suppress the threat with stepped-up surveillance, speedy eradication efforts, and more public outreach. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

When lobbyists for high-priced stakeholders get called before Congress, as they did on March 29, 2022 before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, they make it sound like Americans should embrace the privilege of being screwed over by MIC elite.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

the frightening reality is that come 2022, hospitals will reach a novel level of short-staffed, and it will have horrendous repercussions on our health system and the patients reliant on it.” Well, we’re in 2022, and Ms. Sefton was right.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

When lobbyists for high-priced stakeholders get called before Congress, as they did on March 29, 2022 before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, they make it sound like Americans should embrace the privilege of being screwed over by MIC elite.

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Institute of Public Health

MAY 30, 2023

Dr Ciara Reynolds and Dr Joanna Purdy pictured at the European Conference on Tobacco or Health Smoking and mental health Later this year the Institute of Public Health plans to publish a new report on the relationship between mental ill-health and tobacco use in Northern Ireland. 2022) The Khan Review.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Health insurers denying care is not new, of course, as the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General showed in 2022. But Herman and Ross found that AI drove health insurers’ denials to new heights in MA plans. Among the more than 61.2 million Medicare members, 54% (32.8

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Earlier this year (April 2022), the most influential cardiologist in the world tweeted about a study on the long term cardiac effects of COVID (LongCOVID). Narrator: A tsunami of exploding hearts did not actually materialize pic.twitter.com/ExajexMUkX — Anish Koka (@anish_koka) May 1, 2022.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Physicians make a pretty decent living (an average of $322,000, according to the 2022 Medscape Physician Compensation report ), although that compensation depends on specialty, gender, race/ethnicity, and location. But maybe, just maybe, the problem in healthcare is that we’re not paying physicians enough – not nearly enough. .

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PHAB

JUNE 24, 2024

Douglas Scutchfield, MD, a passionate public health leader and long-time champion of PHAB who passed away in 2022. It recognizes individuals like Dr. Scutchfield who have made significant and lasting contributions to public health performance improvement, organizational excellence, and exemplary service to PHAB.

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Tulane Public Health Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

They work not only to improve health equity, but also to inform policymakers on key findings related to health outcomes and prevention strategies. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median annual salary for epidemiologists was $78,520 as of May 2022. According to the U.S.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In the last year of their lives, when Medicare Advantage members were likely to switch to traditional Medicare, they shifted the cost of their care away from the health insurers and to the federal government, reporters Anna Wilde Mathews, Christopher Weaver and Tom McGinty explained.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In 2022, CMS approved a waiver that allowed states to use Medicaid funds to cover doula services as part of their maternal health initiatives. Doula care may not be a panacea, but it is a solutions-focused tool in the larger effort to achieve maternal health equity. ” Harvard Medical School “ I’m an Ob-Gyn.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Nationally, more than 100,000 students lived in extended-stay hotels in 2022, according to the Department of Education, though officials say that is likely an undercount. “We have to find ways to support the families as well.” Extended-stay hotels are often a last resort for low-income families trying to find housing.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

And, most scary of all, in 2022 it turns out that we still don’t know if most medical treatments work, much less cause harm. Kelly warns, is harder to see. It has proved dangerously fragile in this pandemic. It never has offered equal care, or even equal access to care, to everyone.

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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

JUNE 15, 2022

The answer lies in the dead bodies of another 400,000 wild birds, mostly water fowl, involved in another 2,600 outbreaks in 2022. But these chickens and turkeys don’t fly commercial, so how did their virus spread? So far, the virus doesn’t seem to like humans much. Only two human cases (one in the U.K. and another in the U.S.)

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PHAB

DECEMBER 16, 2024

in Health Policy from George Washington University, and completed her emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center, where she also served as Chief Resident. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Michigan, M.D. from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, M.P.H.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 2, 2022

We need an Abraham Wald to look at all of the data, to understand all of our health and all of the various things that impact it. We have the ability to track health in people’s everyday lives. But we’re the pilots, and those are our lives on the line. We have the ability to analyze the data that comes from that tracking.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

As I often lament, it’s 2022. We still have separate professional organizations ( AOA and AMA ). This is no way to run a railroad, as the saying goes – much less a healthcare system. We’re almost a quarter of the way through the 21 st century. We need to figure out the best way to educate, train, license, and oversee physicians.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

It is dead and completely gone for 2022 — and MedPac explained bitterly for more than 20 pages why it was a damaging approach and they somehow did not mention that it was now gone.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Solve just held Solve at MIT 2022. Current open challenges include how to measure performance improvement in primary care and another on improving the quality of lives for people with rare diseases.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

En condados como Santa Clara, donde los mosquitos Aedes aparecieron por primera vez en 2022 pero aún no se han establecido, las autoridades esperan reprimir la amenaza con una mayor vigilancia, esfuerzos de erradicación rápidos y más divulgación pública. . Learn more about KFF.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Hey: it’s 2022. Our licensing, our reimbursements, and our work flows need to facilitate this – not just to prepare for the next health crisis, but simply as part of a 21 st century healthcare system. We have the technology to do telehealth “right.”

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Even if one was to buy the party line that the mrna vaccines are beneficial in every age group for time immemorial, it would seem to be a matter of basic ethics to inform the public that one of the mrna vaccines (Moderna) has consistently been noted to have significantly higher rates of a serious adverse event in a particular demographic (young men). (..)

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The increase in complaints came after the November 2022 closure of a 72-bed county-operated juvenile detention center in Mecklenburg County. Charlotte teens were mostly moved to the detention center in Cabarrus County — the facility that is the focus of the lawsuit.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A recent July 2022 publication where 96.7% Effectiveness rebounded to 59.9% (95% CI: 51.2–67.0%) 67.0%) and 43.7% (95% CI: 36.5–50.0%), 50.0%), respectively, in the first month after the booster dose, before declining again.

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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

The Morehouse School of Medicine-East Point partnership aims to increase residents’ awareness of and participation in health policymaking, Douglas said, with the goal of driving bottom-up rather than top-down health policy change. Almost 17% of East Point residents are uninsured, according to the U.S.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Im really proud of the work we did at Columbus Public Health to stem a measles outbreak in 2022. A lot of decisions about health policy and practice get made based on epidemiological data. It took me a little longer to realize how right she was. What has been the most exciting or impactful moment in your work?

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

1, 2019, through June 30, 2022. The division did not always verify the correction of nursing home deficiencies identified during inspections of nursing homes during the period of Jan.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We offer seven open options to choose from that align with your passion, work, and interests. To learn more about each committee, please visit our website.

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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. An equity approach to federal health policy and funding decisions should be data driven and designed for targeted and universal impact.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

This was 2 days following his second Pfizer COVID vaccine 1/ pic.twitter.com/gLLRGkMLTw — EmilyJo (@eekymom) June 12, 2022. pic.twitter.com/WCg9EuIcpM — Anish Koka, MD (@anish_koka) February 14, 2022. cdnpoli #onpoli #cpcldr pic.twitter.com/XWb3WCb6o3 — Roman Baber (@Roman_Baber) July 13, 2022.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Dozens of interviews, thousands of pages of documents, an array of public records requests, and outreach to all 50 states resulted in a first-of-its kind database that catalogs more than 7,000 ways opioid settlement cash was used in 2022 and 2023. of all funds publicly reported as spent or committed in 2022 and 2023. Yet only about $8.4

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

By ELIZABETH BROWN, CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0. During IDIH Week 2022, Catalyst ran a Regional Workshop aiming to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on AHA.

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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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