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

**Thursday, December 3, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

RURAL HEALTH

Partnering With Law Enforcement To Improve Health Outcomes In Rural
Communities

By Elizabeth Ruen, Fred Lamphere, and Wayne Booze

Many are unaware of rural law enforcement's critical role in caring for
people-for example, when residents are experiencing mental health
crises and heart attacks. The Helmsley Charitable Trust, which funds
rural health care in a seven-state Upper Midwest region, recognized this
role and launched two initiatives: Virtual Crisis Care (using
telehealth) and Automatic External Defibrillators for Law Enforcement.
With officers using these technologies, the initiatives' early results
look promising. Read More >>

QUALITY OF CARE

New Clinical Coding Guidelines Account For Patients' Social Risk: We
Should Do More To Ensure They Advance Health Care Quality And Equity

By Laura M. Gottlieb and Sarah C. DeSilvey

The new Medicare and Medicaid coding guidelines for office visits are a
big deal. Ensuring that they benefit the people who need them is a
bigger one. It is clearer now that the federal government and the
American Medical Association recognize the need to account for social
factors in payment models, but we have more work to do to ensure that
the guidelines lead to the delivery of high-quality care for all
patients. Read More >>

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MEDICARE

Remembering Phil Lee: A Life And Legacy To Be Thankful For

By Lauren LeRoy

Phil Lee's tireless commitment to health and social justice spanned
decades and touched lives far beyond those who knew him. His strength in
the face of controversy, positive attitude, relentless energy, and
generosity in making room for new and diverse voices made him a role
model and inspiration for so many working in the field. Read More >>

GRANTWATCH MONTHLY ROUND-UP

How One Foundation Is Using Research To Enhance Its COVID-19 Response
Grant Making

By Sophie Wheelock, Mark A. Zezza, and David Sandman (11/24/20)

Dedicating certain staffers and funding to research and analytics can
help foundations target their grant making to those most in need and
provide important information to grantees, especially during the
COVID-19 pandemic.The New York State Health Foundation, with a
longstanding practice of doing research and data analysis, for example,
analyzed near real-time US Census Bureau data to determine food scarcity
trends in the state during the pandemic. Read More >>

Strengthening Family Caregiving Policies And Programs Through State
Collaboration

By Courtney Roman, Rani Snyder, and Erica Brown (11/12/20)

Family caregiving provides a substantial savings to the health care
system. Such caregiving is normally stressful but is even more so during
a pandemic. Helping States Support Families Caring for an Aging America,
an initiative that received funding from four foundations in its Phase
I, helped six states to advance policy and program changes for family
caregivers. Lessons learned included the importance of collecting and
exchanging robust data about caregivers' role and value. Read More >>

What COVID-19 Exposed In Long-Term Care

By Karen Wolk Feinstein (11/5/20)

We cannot bring back those who have died in skilled nursing facilities
during the pandemic, but we can honor them by implementing decisive and
needed reforms for nursing facilities, says this author. A bipartisan
opportunity now exists for humane reforms. The author, who heads a
foundation, also describes its efforts to improve the long-term care
system over the decades. Read More >>

A Business Case For Improving The Well-Being Of Essential Shift Workers

By Megan McHugh, Claude R. Maechling, and Jane L. Holl

Essential workers are more likely to do shift work-outside of
traditional daytime work hours. Numerous studies have shown that such
work is associated with higher rates of many chronic diseases. Such
underlying conditions increase the risk for serious illness from
COVID-19. A foundation-funded study estimated the health effects, and
excess health care costs incurred per year, for 2,600 workers doing
shift work at a manufacturing company. The authors have suggestions for
employers relying on shift workers. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

GRANTWATCH

Homelessness And Health: Funders See The Connection

By Lee L. Prina

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is hard for people experiencing
homelessness to practice social distancing in a congregate setting, says
one nonprofit's CEO. The November 2020 GrantWatch column contains a
sampling of foundations' efforts around the US, pre- and post-pandemic,
to eliminate housing instability. These ideas may be useful to other
organizations if the possible "eviction tsunami," mentioned in a New
York Times op-ed, comes at year's end. In Key Personnel Changes, read
about the new managing director of the Kresge Foundation's Health
Program and news of other foundations' key staffers. Read More >>

Read the November 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Mental Health

Have efforts to decrease stigma around mental health negatively impacted
prevention efforts?

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