More than 125,000 New York City residents have enrolled in a program aimed at diverting patients from costly emergency room (ER) visits and into primary care appointments, NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H) announced this month.

NYC Care—a $100 million initiative former Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out ahead of his ill-fated 2020 presidential campaign—markets existing city-subsidized healthcare services to people who are undocumented, uninsured, or underinsured so they can receive primary care in a timely manner, rather than wait for a condition to deteriorate and end up going to the ER.

Patients can enroll as a member in the program, which aims to ensure continuity of care. For example, they can choose a primary care doctor, receive preventative services like vaccines and mammograms, and access low-cost prescriptions.

Keep reading here.—AE

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Non-white children in the US receive lower-quality healthcare compared to white children, according to a study published this month.

Fifteen researchers from institutions including Harvard and the University of Southern California analyzed studies published between 2017 and 2022 to conclude that the disparities in care quality for non-white children persisted across specialties, even after taking factors like insurance and socioeconomic status into account.

“Racial and ethnic disparities in health are substantial and persistent in the USA, present in the earliest years of life, and profoundly affect children’s health throughout their lives,” the researchers wrote in the study, published in the medical journal The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.

Keep reading here.—MA

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On Fridays, we schedule our rounds with Healthcare Brew readers. Want to be featured in an upcoming edition? Click here to introduce yourself.

This week’s Making Rounds spotlights Will Peischel, Healthcare Brew’s newest reporter who’s also one of the team’s two Libras. Peischel has reported on topics ranging from burning human bodies to why Google Maps is his favorite social media—so naturally, he sat down to talk about the complicated and yet satisfying web of information that is journalism and life in general.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

How would you describe your job to someone who isn’t familiar with the world of healthcare journalism?

I would say that my job is to take complicated information pertaining to the industry—how we treat people’s health and lives in the United States—and simplify it for all kinds of audiences.

Keep reading here.—QS

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Today’s top healthcare reads.

Stat: The CDC may update Covid-19 isolation guidelines from five days to 24 hours if an individual is fever-free without medication—standardizing the protocol for the disease with the same rule for the flu and RSV. (the New York Times)

Quote: “This is the largest targeting campaign we’ve seen to date against reproductive health clinics based on brokered data.”—Justin Sherman, a data broker researcher at Duke University, on a company reportedly tracking visits to 600 Planned Parenthood sites for anti-abortion ads (Politico)

Read: The FDA is investigating whether hospital purchasing groups and drug distributors triggered drug shortages. (the Wall Street Journal)

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