Thursday, June 30, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Nursing Homes
As the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed, nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable to harm.
In their
Age-Friendly Health article in this month’s Health Affairs, Michael Wasserman and Tamara Konetzka argue that effective responses to pandemics or natural disasters are rooted not
only in providers’ compliance with regulations but also in broader system preparedness.
The authors explain that these broader systems arise from stronger nursing home administration, managerial accountability, and integration into community disaster planning.
“The evidence makes clear the need to rethink the current approach to protecting nursing home residents during disasters,” they write.
The authors contend that both improving leadership in nursing homes and greater integration of nursing homes into public health disaster planning are necessary to improve the fate of disaster-stricken nursing home residents.
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Today in Health Affairs
Forefront, Sean Cavanaugh and coauthors argue that CMS can achieve its ambitious goal of connecting 100 percent of original Medicare members to an accountable care relationship by 2030, but it will take urgent and specific action on several fronts.
Elevating Voices: Pride Month: Kevin Nguyen and colleagues wrote in their 2018 Health Affairs paper that although disparities in access to care between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) and straight adults have narrowed in the post-Affordable Care Act era, LGB adults still report having
significantly more bad mental health days relative to their straight peers.
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