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Health policy expert John McDonough discusses how profit-focused decisions by companies including Steward Health Care, UnitedHealth Group, and drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS, are damaging medical care in Massachusetts—and how the situation might improve.
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.
Op-ed: Hospitals, health care systems should tackle social drivers of health
Health care systems should use their resources to address a wide range of social drivers that lead to health problems, instead of only focusing on medical interventions such as drugs and surgeries, according to an op-ed co-authored by…
Wildfires pose serious threat to inpatient health care facilities in California
Wildfires threaten a significant percentage of hospitals and other inpatient health care facilities in California—and in many counties, all the health care facilities may be at risk, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard Chan…
Harvard Chan School’s Christopher Golden receives grant to strengthen public health systems through artificial intelligence
Harvard Chan School’s Christopher Golden is among the recipients of the National Science Foundation’s recent $140 million investment in artificial intelligence (AI). He will co-lead a project aimed at strengthening the public health system in Madagascar through AI…
Federal action needed to halt maternity ward closures, says expert
As maternity wards continue to close around the country, some states are implementing “bold and innovative” solutions—though none that will be as effective as federal intervention, according to Harvard Chan School’s Alecia McGregor.
Medicare Advantage patients have fewer hospitalizations but more ED visits for potentially avoidable conditions, study finds
Patients insured by Medicare Advantage had fewer hospitalizations for potentially avoidable conditions compared to patients insured by traditional Medicare, according to a new study.
Preparing hospitals and health systems for climate change
Speaking to The Boston Globe, several experts from Harvard Chan School offered their perspectives on how hospitals and health systems will cope with continuing climate change and extreme weather events.
Medicaid hospital reimbursement linked with more use of long-acting contraception after births
The use of long-acting reversible contraception—such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) or contraceptive implants—increased among people who recently gave birth in states that switched their Medicaid policies to include hospital reimbursement for such contraception, according to a study from…