Unpacking Massachusetts’ Steward health system crisis
The potential financial collapse of Steward Health Care, which owns nine hospitals in Massachusetts, is a crisis—but it could also provide an opportunity, according to health policy expert John McDonough, to make the state’s overall health care system…
Possible Steward hospital closures in Massachusetts prompt concern
As the Steward Health Care system faces a financial crisis that may lead to hospital closures in Massachusetts, experts are weighing in on the problem—and what to do about it.
Orientation 2023: Harvard Chan School welcomes new students
A new crop of Harvard Chan School students got their official welcome to the School when Orientation kicked off on August 21.
Orientation 2022: Harvard Chan School welcomes new students
The first fully in-person Orientation week at Harvard Chan School since the start of the pandemic kicked off on August 22.
Opinion: Health care is prime target of federal antitrust effort
For years, corporate consolidations and mergers in the U.S. health care system have fueled rising health care prices and costs. Federal officials are now focused on more vigorous enforcement of antitrust law across society—with the health care industry…
Opinion: Averting evictions prevents adverse health consequences
A new effort in Massachusetts is preventing evictions, helping tenants avoid health problems and disruptions to family stability, employment, and education, and making money for one of the largest rental property owners in Boston, according to an op-ed…
Deep breathing and downward dog—prison inmates de-stress with yoga
John McDonough of Harvard Chan School has taught yoga to groups of male inmates at the Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston since the summer of 2017.
De-stressing during finals week
A series of events for Harvard Chan students, "Stress-Free Finals," featured yoga, coloring, rock painting, free giveaways, and therapy dog visits.
Why no single health care system is the world’s ‘best’
Harvard Chan School faculty members were among seven experts who appeared in a Washington Post video discussing how to improve the U.S. health care system and whether other countries’ systems are better.
How the ACA’s ‘individual mandate’ came to be—and where it stands now
John McDonough explores the history of the "individual mandate"—the requirement under the ACA that most Americans obtain health insurance.
