by Jordana Choucair | Jan 21, 2022 | Providers
HHS announced the 45 grantees that will receive $103 million in American Rescue Plan funding to address health care worker burnout and improve employees’ mental health and well-being. The grants, distributed by the Health Resources and Services Administration,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 21, 2022 | Providers
Tufts Medical Center plans to close its 41-bed pediatric hospital in Boston to increase its capacity to care for critically ill adults. Officials from Wellforce Health System said the 41 beds will be converted to much-needed adult ICU and medical/surgical beds. The...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 21, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Unvaccinated adults ages 50 or older are substantially more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than those who are fully vaccinated and have gotten a booster shot, according to the CDC’s first real-world data on the extra doses in the U.S. Among adults ages 50 to...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 20, 2022 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden said Democrats will likely have to break up their roughly $2 trillion social spending bill, which includes multiple health care provisions, in order to get it through Congress. Biden also defended his COVID-19 response, saying that his...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 20, 2022 | Mental Health
Third Horizon Strategies’ latest blog highlights Tym Rourke’s and Sara Howe’s predictions regarding how payers, states, and communities will continue to shift resources to better address health equity and social determinants of health. “The pandemic...
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