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Basic Services, Emergency Services, Health & Insurance, Social Services

‘It Doesn’t Feel Worth It’: Covid Is Pushing New York’s EMTs to the Brink

February 24, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

In his 17 years as an emergency medical provider, Anthony Almojera thought he had seen it all. “Shootings, stabbings, people on fire, you name it,” he said. Then came covid-19. Before the pandemic, Almojera said it was normal to respond […]


Health & Insurance, Social Services

Countless Homebound Patients Still Wait for Covid Vaccine Despite Seniors’ Priority

February 22, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

Opening another front in the nation’s response to the pandemic, medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors. Boston Medical Center, which runs the oldest in-home […]


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Does the arrival of urgent care centers reduce the acuity of visits at nearby EDs?

February 18, 2021

Via: Healthcare Economist

Urgent care centers are on the rise. Back in 2013, there were only 6,100, but this number increased to 9,616 by late 2019 a 7.9% average annual increase. The rise of urgent care could have positive or negative impacts on […]


Health & Insurance, Social Services

Bay Area Cities Go to War Over Gas Stoves in Homes and Restaurants

February 17, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

San Francisco restaurant owners, already simmering over covid-19 restrictions, are ready to boil over because of a city ban on natural gas stoves in new buildings that takes effect in June. The ban, which also affects other gas appliances, is […]


Health & Insurance, Social Services

Why Biden Has a Chance to Cut Deals With Red State Holdouts on Medicaid

February 17, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

President Joe Biden has an unexpected opening to cut deals with red states to expand Medicaid, raising the prospect that the new administration could extend health protections to millions of uninsured Americans and reach a goal that has eluded Democrats […]


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Anti-Immigrant Vitriol Complicates Vaccine Rollout in Southern States

February 16, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

In eastern Tennessee, doctors have seen firsthand how a hard-line immigration policy can affect the health and well-being of a community. In 2018, federal agents raided a meatpacking plant in Morristown, a manufacturing hub in the Tennessee Valley, and detained […]


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As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them

February 12, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels. These bills, sponsored by […]


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New COVID-19 Guidance, the Biden Administration and 2021 Workplace Safety Efforts

February 5, 2021

Via: Waste360

As employers continue to navigate increased workplace safety measures following the rapid spread of COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Labor has released additional guidance to aid in 2021 efforts. OSHA’s recommendations, which were published on Friday, Jan. 29, aim to […]


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100 Million Covid Shots in 100 Days Doesn’t Get Us Back to Normal

February 3, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

April 30 will mark the end of the first 100 days of President Joe Biden’s tenure. That’s a benchmark presidents often set for making good on high-priority campaign promises. In early December, Biden announced that one promise would be to […]


Health & Insurance, Social Services

What to Expect from OSHA as the Biden Administration Gears Up for 2021

February 2, 2021

Via: Waste360

This past week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released updated guidance on safety in the workplace related to COVID-19. This comes on the heels of President Joe Biden’s executive order on workplace safety. The Biden administration has hit […]


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Older Adults Without Family or Friends Lag in Race to Get Vaccines

February 1, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

A divide between “haves” and “have-nots” is emerging as older adults across the country struggle to get covid-19 vaccines. Seniors with family members or friends to help them are getting vaccine appointments, even if it takes days to secure them. […]


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If This Self-Sufficient Hospital Cannot Stand Alone, Can Any Public Hospital Survive?

January 29, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

In America’s health care system, dominated by hospital chain leviathans, New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, is an anomaly. It is a publicly owned hospital that boasts good care at lower prices than most and still flourishes […]


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4 Vital Health Issues — Not Tied to Covid — That Congress Addressed in Massive Spending Bill

January 28, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

Late last month, before President Joe Biden took office and proposed his pandemic relief plan, Congress passed a nearly 5,600-page legislative package that provided some pandemic relief along with its more general allocations to fund the government in 2021. While […]


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Vaccine Ramp-Up Squeezes Covid Testing and Tracing

January 25, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under growing pressure to jump-start a faltering covid-19 vaccine rollout, jetted to Los Angeles on Jan. 15 to unveil a massive new vaccination site at Dodger Stadium that is expected eventually to inoculate 12,000 people a […]


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Covid Vaccine Rollout Leaves Most Older Adults Confused Where to Get Shots

January 22, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

Over a month into a massive vaccination program, most older Americans report they don’t know where or when they can get inoculated for covid-19, according to a poll released Friday. Nearly 6 in 10 people 65 and older who have […]


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Hospitals’ Rocky Rollout of Covid Vaccine Sparks Questions of Fairness

January 13, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

Last week, after finishing inoculations of some front-line hospital staff, Jupiter Medical Center was left with 40 doses of precious covid vaccine. So, officials offered shots to the South Florida hospital’s board of directors and their spouses over age 65. […]


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One Ambulance Ride Leads to Another When Packed Hospitals Cannot Handle Non-Covid Patients

January 11, 2021

Via: Kaiser Health News

Keely Connolly thought she would be safe once the ambulance arrived at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center in Kansas. She was having difficulty breathing because she’d had to miss a kidney dialysis treatment a few days earlier for lack of child […]


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Lacking statewide vaccine plan, Florida counties turn to Eventbrite

January 4, 2021

Via: StateScoop

With every state left to manage its own distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, public health agencies across the country are taking individual approaches to rolling out the injections. But in states where vaccinations are even further decentralized, like Florida, some counties […]


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Surprise! Congress Takes Steps to Curb Unexpected Medical Bills

December 22, 2020

Via: Kaiser Health News

Most Americans tell pollsters they’re worried about being able to afford an unexpected medical bill. Late Monday, Congress passed a bill to allay some of those fears. The measure is included in a nearly 5,600-page package providing coronavirus economic relief […]


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Many US Health Experts Underestimated the Coronavirus … Until It Was Too Late

December 21, 2020

Via: Kaiser Health News

A year ago, while many Americans were finishing their holiday shopping and finalizing travel plans, doctors in Wuhan, China, were battling a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia with no known cause. Chinese doctors began to fear they were witnessing the return […]