by Jordana Choucair | Apr 22, 2022 | Payers
Humana announced it will divest 60 percent of its stake in Kindred at Home’s hospice business to an investment firm. The $2.8 billion cash deal is expected to close in the third quarter of this year. Once it closes, Kindred at Home Hospice will be reconfigured...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 22, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said fewer U.S. children received vaccinations required to enter kindergarten during the 2020-21 school year, with rates around 94 percent for measles, whooping cough, and chickenpox. That figure was down 1 percent...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 22, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC issued an alert about a mysterious cluster of hepatitis cases in young children amid an investigation with the Alabama Department of Public Health. The state reported that nine previously healthy kids ages 1 to 6 ended up in the hospital with liver injuries,...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 21, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
The Commonwealth Fund released a new issue brief examining experiences of racial discrimination in health care settings among Latinx/Hispanic and Black older adults. The brief found that almost 25 percent of Black and Latino adults ages 60 and older say health care...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 21, 2022 | Life Sciences
Several members on a panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested that most U.S. adults under 50 can hold off on a fourth booster shot until later this year. The members noted that the goal of the additional doses should be to...
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