by Jordana Choucair | Apr 18, 2022 | Providers
The Biden administration announced it is providing a $226.5 million boost to efforts to build up the community health worker pipeline. The funding will be allocated from the American Rescue Plan workforce dollars for the Community Health Worker Training Program, which...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 15, 2022 | Providers
Kaiser Permanente announced plans to double the size of its efforts to address housing instability with another $200 million. Since the Thriving Communities Fund’s inception in 2018, the initiative has preserved or produced more than 7,000 affordable housing...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 13, 2022 | Providers
BHSH System, the newly formed combination of Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health, announced a $19 million investment to expand the nurse training pipeline in western Michigan. Half of the funding will support a collaboration with Grand Valley State University to train...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | Providers
Walmart Health announced it will open five new locations in Florida in the coming months – two clinics in Jacksonville, two in Orlando, and one in Tampa. Walmart’s clinics provide chronic disease management, urgent care, and mental health counseling, along with...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 4, 2022 | Providers
The American Medical Association, the Medical Group Management Association, and 30 other national medical specialty groups are urging the Biden administration to give providers more time to report on COVID-19 pandemic assistance funding. In a letter to HRSA...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 31, 2022 | Providers
A new FAIR Health analysis found that hospital charges for services like emergency department visits and initial hospital care continue to grow faster than other types of care. According to the analysis, hospitals boosted their median charges for evaluation and...
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