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Are Too Many Seniors Taking Antidepressants?

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07/31/2015

... Older Americans receive prescriptions for mental health medications at more than twice the rate that younger ... seniors weren’t receiving attention for mental health issues—may now need to shift, says Donovan...

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Nonprofit Insurers Lose on Medicare Under New Obamacare Rules

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08/20/2015

... Medicare Under New Obamacare Rules New York State has in many ways been a showcase for things that have gone right with Obamacare. The rollout of the state-run health insurance exchange went relatively...

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

... Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S. Faced with physician shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly...

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United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers

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02/16/2016

... New York City-based United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, explained in a commentary in the same issue. They may feel uncomfortable or too ...

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Bloomberg-Funded Study: Industry Initiatives to Prevent Drinking & Driving Lack Scientific Evidence of Effectiveness

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02/22/2016

... been studied, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests. Reporting Feb. 18 in the American Journal of Public Health , the researchers analyzed the content of 266 ...

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Josiah Macy Foundation Supports New Education & Training Programs to Foster Compassionate, Collaborative Healthcare

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03/24/2016

... Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a national leader in the movement to make compassion a vital element in every patient-caregiver interaction, announced today the ... which is not routinely taught, modeled...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

... Cities and Towns to Get Healthier A major public- health organization and a local government group are teaming up with Aetna to pursue a lofty goal: a rise in healthy communities. The American Public ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Obamacare Is Helping Millions Get Needed Healthcare

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05/25/2016

... Americans who signed up for Medicaid or a private health plan through the Affordable Care Act are getting ... the law. Overall, 82% of American adults enrolled in private or government coverage through the...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014

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07/20/2016

... of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014 It was hard to make money selling Obamacare health insurance in the first year. Next year might not be much easier. A ...

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Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures

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08/22/2016

... Obamacare Marketplace Pressures Recent decisions by giant health insurers to pull back from Obamacare exchanges across ... to the program that has helped millions of people gain health coverage. Sara Collins,...

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Milbank Memorial Fund's Koller Comments on Consequences of Dumping Essential Benefits

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03/24/2017

... by conservative Republicans to dump standards for health benefits in plans sold to individuals would probably lower the average ...

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Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year

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04/06/2017

... Still Kills Many Every Year Smoking kills more than one in 10 people worldwide. A major new study in the medical journal Lancet found that, in 2015, 11.5% of ... identified through several...

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Russell Sage Foundation - Funding Opportunities Announced

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08/15/2017

... of 2010 represents the most significant reform of the U.S. health care system in decades. It was enacted with the goals of increasing ... enhancing the quality of care and moderating the growth in...

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Senate’s Obamacare Fixes Would Build on Heavy Lifting by States

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09/07/2017

... While Congress was busy bickering over repealing the health law, officials in red and blue states worked frantically to soothe anxious ... and insulate their markets from the ceaseless chaos in...

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NYSHealth 2018 Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals Available

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... Fund Request for Proposals Available The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) 2018 Special Projects Fund ... consistent with the Foundation's mission to improve the health of all New Yorkers but...

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Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September

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09/18/2017

... consideration of a plan that would devolve federal health -care spending to states. The Congressional Budget Office is in the process of estimating the cost and coverage impact of ... would provide states with...

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NYC’s Fiscally Troubled Public-Hospital System Gets New CEO

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09/25/2017

... Katz, currently director of the Los Angeles County Health Agency, will lead the system, known as NYC Health + Hospitals, a de Blasio administration official told ... last November. Stanley Brezenoff, who first...

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The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation

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07/06/2018

... At a time when the danger of opioids is clear, UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory are collaborating to form ... lead the consortium and is a joint faculty member at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory...

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Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards $5 Million to Evaluate Virtual Diabetes Specialty Clinic Model

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08/10/2020

... announced a new $5,025,099 grant to the Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation to evaluate the efficacy of a ... Largely due to geography, many people with diabetes in the U.S. lack access to an...

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