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| May 29, 2026 | Low wages, empty plates, heavy toll: Rethinking suicide prevention | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”
By Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News
As a teenager, Re... |
| May 28, 2026 | Violent Crime In The US Is At Record Lows, But The DOJ Is Eliminating The Funding That Helped Reduce Crime | This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
The United States is experiencing one of the steepest declines in violent crime in modern history, including a murder rate at its... |
| May 14, 2026 | Saving lives by changing lives: The next frontier in suicide prevention | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”
Someone in Americ... |
| Jan 22, 2026 | States race to launch rural health transformation plans | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Sarah Jane Tribble, Arielle Zionts and Maia Rosenfeld, KFF Health News
Imagine starting the new year with the promise of at least a $147 million payout from the federal government. Related Artic... |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Many Black, Latino people can’t get opioid addiction med. Medicaid cuts may make it harder | By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org
Pharmacies in Black and Latino neighborhoods are less likely to dispense buprenorphine — one of the main treatments for opioid use disorder — even though people of color are more likely to die from opioid ov... |
| Mar 1, 2025 | Why nursing homes and hospice are so expensive in the U.S. | Baby boomers are about to be the largest generation in American history to hit the long-term care space. Born between 1946 and 1964, as defined by Pew Research, the oldest baby boomers are turning 80 next year. The group is set to flood a s... |
| Nov 22, 2024 | Health Care Reviews Tank Following COVID Pandemic | PHILADELPHIA— After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, online reviews of health care facilities dropped significantly, and they have not yet fully recovered, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at th... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | Six Penn experts elected to National Academy of Medicine | PHILADELPHIA—Six experts from the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Leaders in the fields of cardiology, nursing,... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed | By Lillian Mongeau Hughes, KFF Health News
MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Health | He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he’s trying to change the industry | Kate Wells, Michigan Public | (TNS) KFF Health News
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death.
The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard di... |
| Apr 22, 2024 | Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed | Manti, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.
He blames his addiction. He started using... |
| Feb 23, 2024 | Axle Health Revolutionizes Home Health Workforce Management | Axle Health, a trailblazer in home health scheduling management software, recently secured a $4.2 million seed round to tackle the critical staffing shortage in the industry. The company's innovative platform optimizes scheduling and routes... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Exclusive: Axle Health raises $4.2M to manage home health workforces | Axle Health, a home health scheduling management software company, raised a $4.2 million seed round, CEO Adam Stansell tells Axios exclusively.
Why it matters: Home health is grappling with a labor shortage, and unpredictable schedules can ... |
| Nov 17, 2023 | Health | Many Americans facing financial ruin as costs soar for elder care | Reed Abelson, The New York Times and Jordan Rau | (TNS) KFF Health News
Margaret Newcomb, 69, a retired French teacher, is desperately trying to protect her retirement savings by caring for her 82-year-old husband, who has severe dementia, ... |
| Sep 11, 2023 | How Hospitals Can Maximize Cybersecurity and Travel Nurse Investments | Dr. Sean Kelly, Chief Medical Officer and SVP of Customer Strategy, Imprivata
In the wake of the pandemic, the nursing field has continued to suffer large-scale burnout and a wave of retirements. An estimated 100,000 registered nurses have ... |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Addressing The Impacts Of Hospital Mergers | CEO, Atlas Surgical Group, one of the largest private ASC groups in the U.S., Author of "Success in Ambulatory Surgery Centers." |
| May 16, 2023 | Risant Health’s Value-Based Platform: A Signal Of Future Health System M&A? | If value-based care is healthcare’s Everest, could Risant Health’s platform play be one of the critical sherpas (doing all of the hard work) helping to get us there? Maybe. |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Making naloxone available over the counter won’t solve the overdose crisis — but it will help | The Food and Drug Administration aims to conduct priority reviews of at least two product applications for granting over-the-counter status to intranasal formulations of naloxone, an overdose-reversal drug.
Naloxone prevents overdose deaths... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Health and science are on the ballot this election. Here’s what we’re watching | WASHINGTON — The midterm elections this year are centered on weighty topics: the economy looms large, as does the existential future of democracy. But there are plenty of health and science priorities on the ballot, too, as Tuesday’s votes ... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Why Value-Based Care Requires Value-Based Administration | Rahul Sharma, Chief Executive Officer at HSBlox Lynn Carroll, Chief Operations Officer at HSBlox
Value-based care (VBC) is finally gaining steam among healthcare organizations as executives look to implement processes that boost patient out... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Why value-based administration is key to value-based care | After years of uneven adoption, value-based care (VBC) is gaining momentum as providers and payers seek to improve patient outcomes while gaining control of runaway healthcare spending in the U.S. An overwhelming 94% of health system execut... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | Health equity 101: What causes healthcare disparities, and where does tech fit? | For the immigrants served by the Southwest Philadelphia-headquartered Coalition of African and Caribbean Communities (AFRICOM), health inequity doesn’t just look like the false stigmatization of immigrants as COVID-19 super spreaders or les... |
| Jul 2, 2021 | Outdated Medicare rules threaten older Americans’ access to home medical equipment | Pandemic-related breaks in global supply chains for drugs and essential medical supplies are affecting the more than 4.5 million people who receive health care at home and the companies they count on to provide and service their oxygen mach... |
| Jun 28, 2021 | As ethical AI teams proliferate, will Big Tech listen? | The news: Some of Big Tech’s biggest critics will be heading up Twitter’s Machine learning, Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) ethical AI team, according to Protocol.
Earlier this year the notorious AI researcher Rumman Chowdhu... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | America has spent over a trillion dollars fighting the war on drugs. 50 years later, drug use in the U.S. is climbing again. | June 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the war on drugs.
Since 1971, America has spent over a trillion dollars enforcing its drug policy, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania.
The war on drugs has done more harm than g... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | That’s Just The Way It Is? Why Home Health Complexities Make Case For Investment, Not Demonization | Covid-19 has exacerbated challenges in the home healthcare subsector, while seemingly putting a target on the backs of home health agencies struggling to deliver high-value care. A combination of technology, policy fixes and investment migh... |
| May 29, 2020 | Shanel Fields knew emergency medical service teams needed a tech company like hers | Shanel Fields knows that the time and resources of Emergency Medical Service teams are extremely valuable and in short supply.
She watched her father work in the EMS field, and growing an understanding and love for the field was a big part ... |
| Oct 8, 2019 | Beyond the Sacklers: Free-trade policies contributed to the opioid epidemic | The Sackler family was once celebrated for its philanthropy. Now the owners of Purdue Pharma are vilified daily as egregious contributors to the U.S. opioid epidemic, which has shattered so many lives. It’s now time to look more closely at ... |
| May 3, 2019 | Aim your baloney detector at the BS in health care | BS, what Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt once called a “lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to how things really are,” has probably been around since the beginning of language. It’s now common in American di... |
| Dec 2, 2016 | National health policy shouldn’t be based on flip-flopping science | Flip-flops on health advice have become the norm rather than the exception. We’ve been back and forth about butter several times — is it bad or perfectly fine? Hormone replacement therapy was often prescribed to women to protect their heart... |
| Mar 21, 2016 | A world in which health insurance exchanges expel low-quality hospitals | California’s insurance exchange is threatening to cut hospitals from its networks for poor performance or high costs, a novel proposal that is drawing heavy fire from medical providers and insurers.
The goal is to boost the overall quality ... |
| Feb 14, 2014 | Penn Social Media Lab challenge: How good design can save lives | Good design can save lives.
Penn Medicine’s new Social Media Lab launched a new public health initiative that invites people to reimagine public spaces in order to make Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) more apparent in life-threaten... |
| Jun 29, 2012 | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: ACA enters next chapter | Corbett said: “Not only is it a tax, but it may turn out to be one of the largest tax increases in the history of our nation. It is a tax on our citizens that they cannot afford. It is a tax that hits our small businesses the hardest and wi... |
| ‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities | Fueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, health equity research is now in vogue. Journals are clamoring for it, the media is covering it,... |
| A world in which health insurance exchanges expel low-quality hospitals | California’s insurance exchange is threatening to cut hospitals from its networks for poor performance or high costs, a novel proposal that is drawing heavy fire from medical providers and insurers.
The goal is to boost the overall quality ... |
| Why value-based administration is key to value-based care | After years of uneven adoption, value-based care (VBC) is gaining momentum as providers and payers seek to improve patient outcomes while gaining control of runaway healthcare spending in the U.S. An overwhelming 94% of health system execut... |
| As ethical AI teams proliferate, will Big Tech listen? | The news: Some of Big Tech’s biggest critics will be heading up Twitter’s Machine learning, Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) ethical AI team, according to Protocol.
Earlier this year the notorious AI researcher Rumman Chowdhu... |
| It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: ACA enters next chapter | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Healthcare reform may not exactly be Dickens, but it’s a fitting description of how future generations might interpret the widely divergent responses to the SCOTUS decision on the Afforda... |
| Walgreens targets urgent care in rumored healthcare merger | The news: Walgreens-backed VillageMD is in talks to acquire medical group Summit Health in a deal that would value the combined companies at between $5 billion and $10 billion, according to a Bloomberg report.
Breaking down the players: Bot... |
| Study finds 65-year-olds need $135K for long-term care | Location drives costs, duration of care
The type of care — home health, assisted living or nursing home — and where a person lives can drastically affect costs.
Residents of Hawaii, California, Washington, Florida and New Hampshire tend to ... |
