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The Connection:

COVID-19

Research, policy analysis, and reports from the field.


April 13, 2020

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COVID-19


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How Does U.S. Capacity to Respond Compare to Other Countries?

How does America’s capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic compare to 16 other high-income countries? The Commonwealth Fund’s Roosa Tikkanen and colleagues report their findings in a post for To the Point.

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Meeting the Needs of Veterans During the Pandemic

For our Q&A, we asked Richard A. Stone, M.D., who heads the Veterans Health Administration, how the country’s largest integrated health care system is adapting to deal with COVID-19.

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The VHA has dramatically expanded telemedicine across its care delivery system, increasing video visits from 2,000 per day in February to 10,000 by late March.


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Coronavirus and the Future of Telehealth

On To the Point, the Wynne Health Group’s Josh LaRosa examines recent legislation authorizing telehealth services and what more needs to be done to encourage people to stay home.

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Maternal Health and COVID-19

In a commentary for STAT, the Commonwealth Fund’s Laurie Zephyrin, M.D., offers solutions for ensuring maternal health during the COVID-19 pandemic, including prioritizing coronavirus testing during pregnancy, expanding the use of telemedicine and investing in birthing centers, and permanently extending Medicaid’s postpartum coverage from 60 days to a full year.

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The Better Care Playbook’s Complex Care Resource Center

New COVID-19 policies and publications emerging almost daily. In response, the Better Care Playbook has created a resource center to help guide complex care stakeholders in understanding federal guidance and adopting new strategies that support people with complex needs who are impacted by the virus.

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Which Drugs Help? What Should I Do If My Roommate Is Sick?

“Have any drugs been helpful in treating COVID-19?” “My roommate just got sick. Now what?” These and other questions are answered with wit and bad sports analogies in Corona Question Corner by the Commonwealth Fund’s Eric Schneider, M.D. Submit questions to
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Other Recent Publications

Integrating Patients’ Health and Social Needs

The April issue of Health Affairs features research on programs that integrate services for patients’ health and social needs. Two articles examine 30 programs across 11 countries,
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finding that there are many common features — as well as some variation — in the delivery of integrated care, and that a combination of
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top-down/national approaches and bottom-up/local approaches may be the best way to support innovation. A third article looks at how
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Area Agencies on Aging partner with local health care providers to enable older adults with physical and mental health problems to stay in their homes.

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Legislation May Lower Rx Drug Prices

An analysis by Paul Ginsburg and Steven Lieberman indicates that prescription drug prices in the U.S. could fall significantly under the proposed Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, or H.R. 3. The legislation is currently awaiting action by the Senate.

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How Do Bundled-Payment Models Around the World Compare?

Former Harkness Fellow Jeroen Struijs and colleagues offer an overview of 23 bundled-payment initiatives — which incentivize hospital systems and other providers to limit spending during episodes, or bundles, of care — in countries across Europe, North America, and the Pacific Rim.

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Commonwealth Fund News


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Commonwealth Fund Awards Local COVID-19 Relief Grants

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commonwealth Fund is making emergency grants to support community-based organizations in New York City that provide essential services for the city’s most vulnerable residents. The first recipients are
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Brooklyn Community Foundation ,
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City Meals on Wheels , and
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God’s Love We Deliver .







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