Hospitals in Poor Rural Counties Face the Greatest Financial Threat from COVID
To help understand the post-COVID hospital industry, we analyzed hospital markets across the U.S. to identify those at the highest risk for closures.
Medical Quality
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Read more: Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work
The future of work and of aging will be shaped by struggles over care from both giving and receiving ends, perhaps against those profiting in between.
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Read more: The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create
Now is a pivotal time for the American Medical Association to reconsider its aggressive scope of practice lobbying.
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Read more: Balancing Patient Rights and Costs in Medical Malpractice Claims Balancing Patient Rights and Costs in Medical Malpractice Claims
It is important not to forget the patient’s perspective and needs. Tort reform should not focus primarily on economics and cost containment.
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Read more: We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula
Simply providing ethics training to health professions students does not ensure that they will make more ethical decisions in practice.
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Read more: Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy
Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population.
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Read more: Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation
Today’s pandemic destabilized hospital care because hospitals were neither coordinated nor managed systemically in order to meet population demands.
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Read more: Eliminating Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Eliminating Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
We know how to prevent overdose deaths, and yet, the majority of individuals with opioid use disorder lack access to the standard of care treatment.
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Read more: The Barriers to Aging in Place The Barriers to Aging in Place
Most seniors and their loved ones don’t realize the barriers that make aging in place a difficult proposition until a crisis occurs.
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Read more: Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now
Health systems that lack universality and inclusivity will always fall short on disease surveillance, detection, and response.
