The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

By ELIZABETH BROWN, CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0. A Panel Discussion reflected on how the findings of the IDIH Digital Health Transformation Forum around the areas of Interoperability by Design, Data Governance, and Digital Inclusion might be impacted in a post-COVID-19 scenario.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

So the consultation has kicked off. I must stress these are my views as a jobbing public health professional and just that. There is going to be a crisis in the next 20 years in health care delivery. The policy levers, power, vested interests and a host of other factors are in favour of maintaining status quo.

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The Network for Public Health Law

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Network for Public Health Law (Network) announced today it has filed an amicus brief in the Moyle v. The Network joined the American Public Health Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Medical Women’s Association and over 100 public health and legal scholars in supporting the U.S.

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The Network for Public Health Law

JANUARY 8, 2025

A Message from Interim Co-Executive Directors Quang (“Q”) Dang and Ann Phi-Wendt “ While laws and policies can serve as barriers to health equity, they can also be used to promote health and advance equity and this is, has been, and will continue to be the focus of our work, whatever the political climate might bring.

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The Network for Public Health Law

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Network for Public Health Law (the Network) has released a guide on “Law and Policy Considerations for Workforce Protections from Extreme Heat,” detailing federal, state, and local legal and policy protections for both indoor and outdoor workers exposed to extreme heat on the job. heat deaths.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 3, 2025

Its unlikely any of us who attended AHCJs Health Journalism 2012 conference in Atlanta will ever forget hearing from former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. They spoke about the work they had done and continued to do to improve health nationally and internationally. 29, 2024, at his home in Plains, Ga.,

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

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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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Years NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan today unveiled “ HealthyNYC , ” an ambitious plan to improve and extend the average lifespan of all New Yorkers. Update: March, 2024 – HealthyNYC codified into law. “ Dr.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

MARCH 14, 2025

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 AMCHP Annual Awards. This combination of skills enables her to provide holistic support, addressing not only the physical aspects of maternal health but also the emotional and mental well-being of her clients.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services pointed to a lack of resources and inadequate staff hampering their ability to keep up with complaints. But taxpayer money, such as the federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid, shouldnt be used to reimburse facilities where people arent taken care of, she said.

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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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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.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and the resulting deluge of state anti-abortion laws, I took a closer look at my family story. Reagan , a University of Illinois professor, in the 1979 book , When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine and Law in the United States, 1867–1973. It also destroyed her surviving family.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 31, 2025

Very rarely do they pass permanent bills into law. In response to the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the first Trump Administration put in several policies designed to be temporary, to keep people in their homes and out of health care settings when possible to stop the spread of the virus.

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NC Health News

MARCH 31, 2025

These proposals would take away peoples access to health care, destabilize rural hospitals and challenge the bipartisan progress we have made here in North Carolina, said Stein, who noted that more than 3 million North Carolina residents about a third of the states population depend on the government-funded health insurance program.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If spending goes down significantly, at least nine states could end their Medicaid expansion initiatives, throwing millions of low- and moderate-income Americans off of their government-funded health insurance, health policy experts predict. About 20% of all personal health care spending in the United States.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 10, 2025

False and misleading narratives on social media , in news reports , and even in popular television dramas suggesting people can overdose from touching fentanyl rather than ingesting it are now informing policy and spending decisions. Recent data indicates that fentanyl-related deaths have begun to drop.)

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Exposure to PFAS, a group of thousands of compounds, has been linked to health problems including cancer, decreased response to vaccines, and low birth weight, according to a federally funded report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Not long after she moved, Valle started feeling sick. California Gov.

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KFF Health News

MARCH 17, 2025

. “If I thought there was a problem, I would have stated it in the paper,” Joseph Borzelleca , 94, a professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University, told KFF Health News after the FDA’s announcement. But federal law is clear: No amount of cancer risk is acceptable in foods.”

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The report says the findings call into question the compatibility of private equitys profit-driven model with the essential role hospitals play in public health. Health Care System, a step toward ensuring accountability. Lower reporting thresholds for mergers and acquisitions to make it easier for regulators to review them.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Now, after backlash against public health interventions culminated in President-elect Donald Trump’s nominating Robert F. “The litany of things that will start to topple is profound,” said James Hodge, a public health law expert at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

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NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isnt the full picture. In North Carolina, 37 percent of births are covered by Medicaid, according to KFF, a nonprofit that analyzes health policy.

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HEALTHBEAT

APRIL 3, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 9, 2025

The Greene County Health System, with only three doctors, has no intensive care unit or surgical services. High-speed broadband is the new backbone of America’s health care system, which depends on electronic health records, high-tech wireless equipment, and telehealth access. “I feel better,” Walker said.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Residents feared the site would not only sink their property values and threaten the environment, but also potentially harm people’s health. Conservative lawmakers and state regulators have been hostile to laws and regulations that center on the rights of people of color, Burkhardt said. Florida Gov.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care. Kennedy Jr.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. and could include an erosion of the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections, the imposition of work requirements in Medicaid and funding cuts to the safety net insurance, and challenges to federal agencies that safeguard public health.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Future steps to protect health data On Feb. 4, AHCJ convened the representatives of roughly a dozen news nonprofits and journalism scholars to talk about future steps for protecting health data. Stay tuned for updates on where to find this critical health data. Public Environmental Data Project.

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The Hill

JANUARY 28, 2025

Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called transition of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures, the order states.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” Of note on health, Trump’s orders instructed the removal of the U.S.

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