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- Audit: VA Hospital Waits Longer Than Reported
Rose Hoban, NC Health News, March 8, 2017 Veterans at VA hospitals and clinics in North Carolina and Virginia had longer wait times for appointments, care and referrals to specialists, including for mental health care, than the electronic scheduling system showed to regional Veterans Affairs leadership. An audit released last week by the Veterans Health Administration Office of the Inspector General found that 36 percent of appointments for new patients at facilities in the Veterans Integrated Service Network that covers North Carolina and Virginia had wait times of longer than a month.
- Shortage of IV bags from Puerto Rico has area hospitals scrambling to care for patients
John Murawski, News & Observer, January 11, 2018 A national shortage of IV fluid bags has Triangle hospitals scrambling to keep patients medicated through a patchwork of improvisations and workarounds that are more expensive, time-consuming and could increase the risk of medical error. Local hospital executives say the nation is in the midst of one of the most severe medical product shortages they have experienced in their careers, and it comes as flu cases are on the rise.
- Strengthening Immigrants’ Health Access: Current Opportunities (90 min)
Clinical Directors Network, Feb 6, 2014. Slides available. "Dr. Leighton Ku, author of the policy brief 'Strengthening Immigrants’ Health Access: Current Opportunities,' will outline both the opportunities and obligations that federal health reform law will bring to lawfully present immigrants, who have obtained green cards or visas allowing them to work, study and live in the United States. Dr. Ku is Professor, Dept. of Health Policy and Director, Center for Health Policy Research in the School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University. State-specific experience and commentary on immigrant insurance coverage and health care access will be provided by Elizabeth Swain, President & Chief Executive Officer, Community Health Care Association of New York State, and Bobbi Ryder President & CEO, National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc."
- The Public Health Dividend
Sandro Galea, Dean's Note, Boston University School of Public Health, June 25, 2017 The US spends more on health, and has far poorer health, than any of its peer high-income countries. That is in no small part because we mis-invest our resources, spending far more on medical and curative care than we do on the conditions that can prevent or promote disease. We have done so for decades, to the detriment of the health of populations. It is the responsibility of public health to change this state of affairs, providing the evidence and making the argument as clearly as possible that an investment in population health is the right investment. Available data are robust about the dividends that accrue when we prevent medical costs and increase productivity through preventing disease—the core function of public health. We shall require substantially more evidence to make the case clearly and compellingly that investment in broader foundational factors compound these dividends, saving money as we promote population health. Scholarship that aims to fill this gap stands to make a sentinel contribution to the national conversation.