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Direct Care

Report ranks US cities with the most racially segregated healthcare markets

Many of the hospitals that received Lown’s highest and lowest marks are located in the same city.

Shannon Young

Payers

Medicare Advantage enrollees less likely to be hospitalized than FFS counterparts, study finds

MA beneficiaries had lower health utilization and expenditures than traditional program beneficiaries.

Shannon Young

Hospitals & Facilities

NYC considers bill to improve sickle cell disease awareness and education

Sickle cell patients may turn to the ER for care amid a lack of primary care providers who specialize in the disease.

Kristine White

Hospitals & Facilities

Federally qualified health centers are playing a key role in Medicaid unwinding

FQHCs are working to ensure Medicaid recipients aren’t caught off guard as states determine coverage eligibility.

Shannon Young

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Tech

How hospitals are rethinking food service as budgets tighten

Shannon Young | 09.22.2023

Pharma

Citizen petitions can curb generic drug competition, costing billions

Maia Anderson | 09.21.2023

Mental Health

Future physicians may be burning out before entering the workforce, survey found

Kristine White | 09.21.2023

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Hospitals & Facilities

Ascension, hit hard by inflation, reports nearly $2.7 billion net loss for FY23

Maia Anderson | 09.20.2023

Hospitals & Facilities

Freeman Health System President and CEO Emeritus Gary Duncan talks crisis management

Kristine White | 09.20.2023

Quick Insights

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HOSPITALS & FACILITIES

How extreme heat affects the healthcare industry

It increases emergency visits and exacerbates health disparities, experts say.

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PSYCHIATRIC BEDS

Addressing psychiatric bed shortages

As calls for more psych beds increase, so do questions over what even constitutes a psych bed.

STAFFING

Nursing homes struggle to fill staffing shortages, even as new ratios loom

CMS mulls new staffing recommendations as the industry struggles to recruit and retain direct care workers.

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STAFFING

More healthcare workers are looking to unionize post-pandemic

Workers are looking for better working conditions after a brutal few years.

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