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NC Senate budget plan filled with health care policy initiatives

NC Health News

By Grace Vitaglione and Rose Hoban The North Carolina Senates proposed budget for the next two fiscal years is packed with policy around new health care initiatives, including repealing North Carolinas hospital capacity regulation laws, trimming vacant state job openings and increasing rates for child care subsidies. billion in the next.

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Telehealth and Medical Education

Exploring Health

Teaching Medical Students to Use Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Inequities Telehealth use has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic. This term refers to the issue of rural residents not being able to access healthcare improvements that are present in urban areas. Medical students have yet to be taught how to use it.

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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. And yet, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care, less than in any other Western democracy. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

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Older job seekers face age discrimination, negative health impacts when they lose their jobs

NC Health News

She left behind her career as a health unit coordinator in Florida. But since moving, Drysdale hasn’t been able to find a lasting job near her Eden home in Rockingham County, and shes worried its because of her age. Since Medicaid expansion last year , more than 22 percent of new enrollees are people aged 50-64.

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Moore County organization expands youth transitional housing

NC Health News

Credit: Courtesy of TambraPlace Sowing seeds of success TambraPlace created its first home for youth in 2021 to serve young women ages 18-24 who are homeless, unaccompanied or considered at-risk. Six young men ranging in age from 18-20 have lived at Stone House. Because we do have so many unaccompanied homeless youth in rural areas.

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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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New Emory survey finds Americans agree on public health priorities: affordable care, food and water safety, chronic diseases

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free Atlanta newsletter here. Heres a few public health priorities that Americans can agree on: making health care more accessible and affordable, ensuring the safety of food and water, and fighting chronic diseases. Some believe U.S.