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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the island of Ireland for 25 years. Shifting the focus of public policy’. And all of these, in turn, contribute to better health, creating a virtuous cycle.

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Scathing audit for N.C. oversight of nursing homes

NC Health News

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.

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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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Readers Offer Solo Agers Support and Reflect on Ancestors

KFF Health News

Recently, I became interested in the issue of how retirees whose professions defined their persona can, after age 80, as a “senior senior,” continue to be a person of substantiality. I created the Glorious Age of Aging to look at this issue over six hourlong meetings over three months. I use Uber as well as drive.

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Super Bowl Rally Shooting Victims Pick Up Pieces, but Gun Violence Haunts Their Lives

KFF Health News

KFF Health News and KCUR are following the stories of people injured during the Feb. Cabrera’s search to make meaning out of what happened has led her to work with a frustrated local lawmaker seeking new gun laws — something akin to impossible given Missouri state law, which prohibits nearly any local restrictions on firearms.

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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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Will anger at health insurers spur action? Democrats pessimistic

The Hill

Democrats are pessimistic that Congress will enact new rules around the health insurance industry, even as they try to appear responsive to growing calls for reform following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. health system, and insurance companies specifically. health system, and insurance companies specifically.