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Newest GOP funding bill includes health extenders, but not PMB reform: Guthrie

The Hill

The latest government funding proposal being assembled by GOP leaders will likely include some must-pass short-term extensions of health policies, even as the legislation drops much of the bipartisan health package negotiated earlier this week. Incoming House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.)

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‘Hospital, Heal Thyself:’ Book shows few hospitals adopt beneficial methods

Association of Health Care Journalists

Author Mark Taylor Two inspiring fellowships In the mid 1990s, Taylor spent a year researching community health centers on a Kaiser fellowship and then a second year as a Kaiser Media Fellow studying the U.S. health care system. At the same time, Cincinnati Childrens improved patient safety and quality of care, he wrote.

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New York City safety-net hospitals, local clinics at risk if Medicaid cuts emerge

HEALTHBEAT

With potentially deep cuts to Medicaid on the horizon, local hospital leaders and health advocates in New York warn that funding reductions could significantly destabilize the citys network of safety-net hospitals and community health centers. Those effects, Smith said, would harm the New Yorkers they serve.

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Frontline health clinics adapt to climate challenges with assistance from a free resource

NC Health News

What sets the Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit apart is that it was co-developed in partnership with free clinics and community health centers serving low-income and uninsured patients, said Donna Porstner, Americares vice president of marketing and communications.

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Community Health Workers Spread Across the US, Even in Rural Areas

KFF Health News

The workers are “an extension of the health care system” and serve as a link “between the formality of this health care system and the community,” she said. The programs are often based at hospital systems or community health centers. Learn more about KFF.

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HealthyNYC – Extending the Lifespan of New Yorkers

Fund for Public Health NYC

“Climate change is a public health crisis that especially burdens those with underlying health conditions, many of whom live in environmental justice communities and contribute the least to climate change,” said Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice Executive Director Elijah Hutchinson.

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Wyden, Sanders blocked from attempt to pass stand-alone health package

The Hill

were blocked Friday from passing a package of health policies, including changes to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry that was left out of Decembers government spending bill. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)