Forefront: Hospital-acquired pneumonia is a significant patient safety issue
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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COVID-19 And Unionized Nursing Homes
A new Health Affairs article, released ahead-of-print today, reveals the association between union status and nursing home resident COVID-19 deaths and worker infection rate from June 2020 through March 2021.

Adam Dean and coauthors determined nursing home labor unions were associated with 10.8 percent lower resident COVID-19 mortality rates and 6.8 percent lower worker COVID-19 infection rates.

“Our results suggest that industrywide unionization would have been associated with approximately 8,000 fewer resident deaths,” they write.

To catch up on all Health Affairs’ pandemic-related content, visit our COVID-19 Resource Center.

In a related article about the health care workforce, Christine Sinsky and Mark Linzer penned a commentary in August 2020 outlining some of the clinical care policy and practice changes prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic that they believe should endure after the crisis has passed.
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In Health Affairs Forefront, Dian Baker and coauthors argue hospital-acquired pneumonia is a significant patient safety issue that must be addressed through federal policy, including the Medicare program.

Katie Keith writes about new studies from the Kaiser Health Foundation and Third Way that examine the impact of fixing the family glitch.

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What’s Next—The emPATH Way Forward

On the final episode of While We Wait, Avni Kulkarni and Sania Ali explore emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment and healing (emPATH) units, and how they could transform care emergency psychiatric treatment delivery.
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