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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Thursday, February 27, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICAID

Medicaid Medical Directors Have A Front Row Seat To The Maternal
Mortality Crisis. Here's What They're Focused On

By Susan Kennedy and Sunita Krishnan

As states are addressing the maternal mortality crisis, Medicaid medical
directors and Medicaid agencies are primed to assist in implementing
innovative strategies to ensure the safety and well-being of women and
their infants.
Read More >>

Five Ways Medicaid Expansion Is Helping Homeless Populations Ten Years
After The ACA Became Law

By Barbara DiPietro

Our health care system is capable of helping prevent and end
homelessness, and Medicaid expansion is central to that effort. Read
More >>

HOMELESSNESS

The Emerging Crisis Of Aged Homelessness: What Can Be Done To Help?

By Brian Byrd

The homeless population is "greying" in New York City, Boston, and Los
Angeles, University of Pennsylvania researchers have found. New York
City is in the middle of an emerging crisis of aging homelessness,
according to their 2019 report. At a panel discussion hosted by a
foundation, they projected that costs for shelter, hospital, and nursing
home services for the elderly homeless just in that city will reach
about $460 million a year by 2030. What interventions can help that
population and maybe save money? Read More >>

GRANTWATCH

FORESIGHT: How Good Could Our Health Be In The Future If We Start
Shaping It Differently Now?

By Raymond Baxter and Laura Landy (February 13)

The three-year FORESIGHT initiative, supported by 17 foundations, seeks
new ways to look at the future of health. It is combining information
about both current trends already having an impact and emerging issues,
with insights into what people and communities-in several localities
around the country-need and want. FORESIGHT leaders envision that the
initiative will point to new ways to create equitable and sustainable
systems for health. Read More >>

How Can We Dismantle Health Equity Barriers In Research?

By Lynne Garner, Nancy C. Yedlin, and Jennifer Salopek (February 5)

How can funders of research dismantle health equity barriers in grant
application, grantee selection, and other processes? They should work to
root out biases that may be hidden in those processes and may be
inadvertently promoting inequities, say these authors affiliated with a
national foundation. They discuss that foundation's steps to promote
greater equity by raising awareness and revising procedures, as a number
of other funders are doing.
Read More >>

Working Across Sectors To Improve Health For Older People: The Community
Care Connections Program

By Elisa Fisher, Kelley Akiya, Annie Wells, Yan Li, Christine Peck, and
José A. Pagán (January 30)

With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, researchers at New
York University and the New York Academy of Medicine evaluated the
Community Care Connections (CCC) program, which aims to integrate social
services into medical systems of care. There are some promising results
from the 2016 to 2019 time period-for example, CCC program
participants experienced a 29 percent reduction in inpatient
hospitalizations. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

GRANTWATCH

Funders' Support For Water And Sanitation Efforts

By Lee L. Prina

The February 2020 GrantWatch column highlights what foundations are
doing in the areas of improving drinking water quality (which "has a
major influence on public health," according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention), and sanitation. Efforts in other countries and
in the US are highlighted. Some people forget that even in the United
States, having "clean water is not always assured," the CDC says.
Funders from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and more have
funded in these areas. In the Key Personnel Changes section of the
column, read about what David Fukuzawa of the Kresge Foundation is
planning. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS-The Affordable Care Act Turns 10

Tuesday, March 10, 2020
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The March 2020 issue of Health Affairs, "The Affordable Care Act Turns
10," offers must-read analyses of the ACA. Authors explain the law's
effects on coverage, cost, health status, and more. They also review the
political and legal issues that have shaped implementation and consider
what should come next. On March 10, Health Affairs will host a special
event to amplify the work.

Please join us for a special briefing when panels of authors and other
experts will present their work and participate in a robust discussion
of the topic, which will include members of the audience. Pre-order the
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A CLOSER LOOK-Alcohol In The Military

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Unhealthy alcohol use in the military remains a serious threat to health
and military readiness and raises the question of how to improve
detection that facilitates diagnosis and treatment. A Health Affairs
journal article says that routine post-deployment alcohol screenings

represent an opportunity for timely intervention by the Military Health
System for military members whose results indicate elevated risk for
alcohol use disorder.

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