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Sunday, April 24, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From
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COVID-19 And Unionized Nursing Homes

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A new Health Affairs article, released ahead-of-print this week reveals
the association between union status and nursing home resident COVID-19
deaths and worker infection rate

from June 2020 through March 2021.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, nursing home residents have accounted
for one of every six deaths in the United States. Nursing home workers
have also been at risk, with more than one million workers testing
positive since April 2020.

Previous research has shown that labor unions play an important role in
improving workplace safety for nursing home workers and their residents.

In their research, Adam Dean and coauthors determine that 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," the authors
write.

The authors' findings contribute to recent studies that find that labor
unions were associated with better infection control policies and
COVID-19 outcomes for essential workers in education and retail.

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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.

Listen Here

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Elsewhere At Health Affairs

This week in Health Affairs Forefront, authors cover topics including
postmortem diagnostic overshadowing, the administration of COVID-19
vaccines, and fixing the family glitch in the ACA.

Over the past two years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
approved or issued emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for several
interventions intended to prevent or treat COVID-19.

Health care professionals, as well as state and local governments, have
often expressed interest in using these COVID-19 interventions outside
the parameters specifically approved or authorized by the FDA.

Govind Persad and coauthors discuss how ambiguity in provisions, federal
agreements, and guidance

has left questions about the legality of approved COVID-19 products.

Elsewhere in Forefront, Scott Landes and Margaret Turk write about
postmortem diagnostic overshadowing
-the
inaccurate reporting of intellectual and developmental disabilities on
death certificates.

The authors argue that improving the accuracy of death certificate data
could benefit public health and reduce disparity by addressing deaths
due to preventable premature mortality.

Adding to the conversation around health reform, Katie Keith writes
about new studies from the Kaiser Health Foundation and Third Way that
examine the impact of fixing the family glitch
.

Want to read more content like this? Bookmark Health Affairs Forefront
to never miss an article.

 

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Featured This Week

Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Threatens Patient Safety-Policy Makers
Must Act To Confront It

Dian L. Baker et al.

What's Driving Up Medicare Part D Costs? High Brand-Name Drug Net
Prices And A Shift To High-Cost Specialty Drugs

Anna Anderson-Cook et al.

Oral Health Equity Cannot Be Achieved Without Racial Equity

Eleanor Fleming

 

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Katie Keith Throws An ACA Birthday Party

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Katie Keith
on the latest Affordable Care Act news and explore the law's successes,
shortcomings, and unfinished work.

Listen Here

 

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