Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want
Release Date:
12/01/2015
Terry Fulmer of the John A. Hartford Foundation writes about the desires of elders to avoid dependence on others and institutionalization.
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Helmsley Trust Supported Data Tool: From Foreclosure to Homelessness, Now You Can Map NYC’s Problems
Release Date:
12/01/2015
DATA2GO.NYC brings together for the first time federal, state, and local data vital to understanding inequality and how multiple factors combine to influence New Yorkers’ well-being in every neighborhood.
United Hospital Fund Releases Guide to NY’s Value-Based Medicaid Reimbursement Roadmap
Release Date:
11/24/2015
United Hospital Fund publishes guide which addresses remaining questions stakeholders need to understand.
How Do You Build a Field? Lessons from Public Health - Rockefeller Foundation
Release Date:
11/23/2015
Kevin O'Neill, associate director, Rockefeller Foundation writes about the field of public health and what we all owe to a legion of researchers, epidemiologists, community health workers, educators and others.
Opinion: Health Reform Lives!
Release Date:
11/23/2015
To the right’s dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage. Still, Obamacare’s opponents insisted that it would implode in a “death spiral...
Hospitals Foster Interprofessional Practice to Improve Outcomes - Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Release Date:
11/20/2015
Collaboratively working in an interdisciplinary practice holds the potential for improving outcomes and healthcare processes. Some hospitals have brought professionals from different disciplines together for the benefit of patients.
Commonwealth Fund Survey: Healthcare Unaffordable for Many Even With Insurance
Release Date:
11/20/2015
More Americans have health insurance now, but many are finding that even with coverage they cannot afford the deductibles, co-payments and surprise medical bills, according to a national survey.
United Hospital Fund: Goals For State Regulation Of Risk Sharing Between Health Care Providers And Insurers
Release Date:
11/19/2015
The United Hospital Fund published a report that focuses on the increasingly common “risk-transfer” agreements between health insurance plans and health care providers, along with the policy and regulatory challenges such arrangements present.
Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Supports NeuroBioBank for Autism Research
Release Date:
11/18/2015
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has signed an agreement to establish a collaborative, nationwide effort for the collection, storage, and distribution of postmortem human brain tissue for the benefit of autism research.
Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia
Release Date:
11/17/2015
The Atlantic Philanthropies, which will conclude its grant-making commitments next year, announced on Monday the capstone of its work on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia.
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