Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires at the end of this week, with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expected to renew the PHE once more to extend through mid-July. By Cathy Zhang.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. If the U.S.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Starting in 2020 and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, tele-behavioral health services, also known as "e-counseling," rapidly expanded. Because individuals were quarantined or fearful to venture out, remote mental health care services became very popular among patients. By Amanda I. Forbes, J.D.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: John Mackey has held this view on food for a long time. ” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. .”

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. By Timothy Bonis. It is not just state boards’ political obstructionism standing in the way.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

.” Stein refused an interview request about Mason’s bills, which arrived at the end of 2021 because the North Carolina government suspended debt collection in March 2020 as the nation felt the economic fallout of the covid-19 pandemic.

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, OIG recognizes that the speaker activity may have slowed. free food and drink).

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

Las muertes por sobredosis de opioides han aumentado de manera constante en los Estados Unidos en las últimas dos décadas, con un pico al principio de la pandemia de covid-19. Los CDC dicen que el fentanilo ilícito ha alimentado un aumento reciente en las muertes por sobredosis.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

Las muertes por sobredosis de opioides han aumentado de manera constante en los Estados Unidos en las últimas dos décadas, con un pico al principio de la pandemia de covid-19. Los CDC dicen que el fentanilo ilícito ha alimentado un aumento reciente en las muertes por sobredosis.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Eduardo Arenas Catalán The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), entail a notable attempt to consolidate lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. by requiring barriers like intellectual property to be human rights compliant; Principle 27.2(a),

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2023

An individual who is at higher risk of death or serious complications from COVID-19 may be an individual with a disability entitled to a reasonable modification. Moreover, health care settings are the very place patients go when they are sick.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. Deepening this challenge, the enactment of new legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic — and especially in its early stages — was near impossible.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The nation’s experience with COVID-19 demonstrated the need for increased telemedicine options for the treatment of substance use, especially in suburban and rural areas where health provider closures may severely limit access to care.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

The future of work and of aging will be shaped by struggles over care from both giving and receiving ends, perhaps against those profiting in between. Recall that the first COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. spread between nursing homes. The resulting understaffing has deadly effects in normal times.

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Foster Swift

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As noted in a prior blog post , the Michigan Supreme Court recently held that Governor Whitmer did not have authority after April 30, 2020 to issue or renew any executive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the same requirements will continue to apply to residential care facilities under the MDHHS Order.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Among pandemic response nay-sayers, the greatest net calls for political reform are found in Italy, Greece, South Korea, the U.S., The Pew team also observed that, “The belief that one’s country is doing a bad job of dealing with the pandemic is also linked to a desire for health care reform. France, and Belgium.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 5, 2022

” In Georgia, where the testing bill awaits the governor’s approval, public health officials said fentanyl-related overdose deaths jumped after the start of the covid-19 pandemic, doubling between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021, compared with the same span in 2019 and 2020.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

in the past two decades, with a spike early in the covid-19 pandemic. The 2022 revisions are “a dramatic change,” he said. The human toll of the opioid crisis is hard to overstate. Opioid overdose deaths have risen steadily in the U.S. The CDC says illicit fentanyl has fueled a recent surge in overdose deaths.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

in the past two decades, with a spike early in the covid-19 pandemic. The 2022 revisions are “a dramatic change,” he said. The human toll of the opioid crisis is hard to overstate. Opioid overdose deaths have risen steadily in the U.S. The CDC says illicit fentanyl has fueled a recent surge in overdose deaths.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. It explores how they must negotiate public health measures on their own. In other words, public health is a group project.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since markets are inherently individualistic and the basic unit of analysis of public health is the community, this ideology was and is antithetical to our goals. Yet a recent proposal I reviewed on emphasizing public policy in public health curricula failed to include classes to understand the nature of U.S. Absolutely.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Zione Ntaba Malawi is not a stranger to public health crises in the last number of years, having faced a severe HIV epidemic and several cholera outbreaks continuing into 2023. Nevertheless, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major panic in the country’s legal system and judiciary.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

COVID-19 and the U.S. health system The COVID-19 pandemic had devastating effects on the United States, and brought these long standing health inequities and policy failures – from resource allocation to public health coordination – into the view of the general American public.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

The latest (March 2021) Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll learned that at least one in three Americans were recently “struggling” to pay living expenses since December 2020, with six in ten families affected by COVID-19 having lost a job or income. electorate is in favor.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

President Biden deployed a similar approach immediately following his inauguration to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic through an array of federal requirements. Historically, public health law primacy resides with states via their core, Tenth Amendment reserved police powers to address residents’ health, safety, and welfare.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

COVID-19 will be with us — in our society and in our brains — for the foreseeable future. This symposium contribution focuses specifically on COVID’s lasting effects in our brains, about which much is still unknown. What does COVID infection do to our brains? By Emily R.D.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism. We have learned nothing from COVID. This is not to say that there are not lessons that can be learned from this pandemic.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Former Montana health staffer rebukes oversight rules as a hospital wish list How this Montana hospital went from a 2.5% in FYQ1 Dartmouth Health taps CEO for 2 hospitals All New Hampshire hospitals affected by nationwide IV fluid shortage, officials say NEW JERSEY Here are N.J.s operating margin in Q3 JLL Arranges $13.4M

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

AHA urges Congress to address health care workforce challenges. 50 best hospital, health systems supply chains in the US, per GHX. in supplemental COVID-19 aid. CMS Innovation Center Launches New Initiative To Advance Health Equity. COVID-19 funding is tapped out, HHS says. Congress’ $1.5

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2023

Becerra is mostly read as a religious freedom case that pits the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) against the promotion of public health goals, similar to what we saw in the last few years of legal challenges to COVID-19 mitigation measures.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

OSHA , which limited federal authority to regulate worker safety with COVID-19 vaccination requirements. The “major questions doctrine” popped up throughout recent public health decisions and became formally recognized in Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in West Virginia v.

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Hall Render

MARCH 29, 2024

Ron DeSantis signs bills to train, retain healthcare workers Tampa health care REIT pays $86M for Texas, Arizona portfolio GEORGIA 9 Georgia hospitals earn awards for patient safety Another inmate escapes Grady Memorial Hospital CHI Memorial breaks ground on new North Georgia hospital CON overhaul gains final passage in General Assembly Ga.

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Hall Render

MAY 31, 2024

investment Q&A: Population Health Company Navvis’ New CEO Courtney Fortner SSM Health names 1st digital chief St. margin in Q1 AI + navigation = faster cancer care at Northwell Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel submits revised closure plan Dollars can boost health equity, but broad change is just as important Montefiore records $27.9M

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Hall Render

MARCH 24, 2023

NATIONAL AHA, others oppose PhRMA-led campaign to restrict 340B eligibility AHA case studies feature hospitals that integrate physical and behavioral health services As birth rates increase, OB-GYN shortage worsens Biden, divided Congress seek common ground on health care reforms CMS resumes all No Surprises Act payment determinations FTC highlights (..)

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But to focus on these failures risks forgetting the collective framing and collective policy response that dominated the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This dangerously obscures what went wrong and limits our political imagination for the future of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging crises.

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