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 >>
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 >>
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
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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 >>
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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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 >>
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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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