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The Florida Department of Health is rebidding its Children’s Medical Services managed care program for youth up to age 21 with special health care needs and who require extensive preventive and ongoing medical care. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gtgCTVi4

Out in print in World Medical & Health Policy with Steven Sylvester Stability and policy threats: US public opinion after a decade of the Affordable Care Act https://lnkd.in/gjujJHsY Key points • The Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains a political battleground in the minds of Americans. The politics of the ACA continue to be shaped by perceptions of race and partisanship. • Utilizing different labels for the ACA continues to elicit differential responses based on the partisanship and racial biases of respondents. • However, we found only very limited evidence for changes to public attitudes related to the policy threat of the Supreme Court ruling the ACA constitutional in California v. Texas.

🫀 Breakthrough Legislation: Access to AEDs Act Passes U.S. Senate A major public health victory: The U.S. Senate has passed the Access to AEDs Act, allocating $25M over 5 years to expand AED availability in schools nationwide. This bipartisan effort, championed by Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin and Senator Chuck Schumer, marks a crucial step in preventing sudden cardiac arrest fatalities among students. As medical professionals, we understand the critical importance of the "golden minutes" following cardiac arrest. This legislation will help ensure our schools are better equipped to respond to these life-threatening emergencies. #PublicHealth #CardiacCare #SchoolSafety #MedicalEducation #AED #EmergencyMedicine

Excited to share our latest publication in JAMA Network Open in collaboration with the PHICOR team at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy: "Modeling Nursing Home Harms From COVID-19 Staff Furlough Policies." "This modeling study found that mandatory furlough of nursing home staff with mild COVID-19 illness was associated with more resident harm from missed care tasks than with harm from increased COVID-19 transmission. In the current climate of extreme nursing home understaffing, allowing those with mild COVID-19 illness to work may prevent more harm from staffing shortages and missed care tasks, ultimately saving substantial costs." https://lnkd.in/gb3bg_qK

The Florida Department of Health released an invitation to negotiate for its Children’s Medical Services managed care program for youth up to age 21 with special health care needs and who require extensive preventive and ongoing medical care. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ehTvncCn #FloridaDepartmentOfHealth #ChildrenServices #ManagedCare

Dr. Holly Graham has recently published in the International Journal of Indigenous Health. Her article, "CPR RACISM: A Guide for Health Care Providers to Address Racism in Health Care", addresses racism in health care through her resource CPR RACISM: "CPR RACISM will encourage and support a speak-up culture and will reinforce the delivery of safe, competent, ethical and trauma-informed nursing care for all Canadians" (Dr. Holly Graham). Article here: https://lnkd.in/g4hcUB9P

Through investigation of linked Medicare claims data, crash records, and licensing records of NJ drivers age 68+, researchers from the Brown University School of Public Health and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's NJ-SHO Center for Integrated Data found differences in driver characteristics associated with crash-related injury versus general crash involvement. They recommend that researchers augment administrative healthcare datasets with information from police crash reports when working to develop interventions to improve traffic safety. 🚗 Read the abstract: https://ow.ly/nIk850T1aVC #OlderDriver #Research #Medicare

ICYMI: The enactment of HB 4 has been transformational for Texas, spurring economic growth and job creation, improving access to health care and strengthening the integrity of our civil justice system. Read more in the TLR Advocate: https://bit.ly/3TQXApD #txlege #txcourts #tortreform #txeconomy #courts #healthcare #medicalcare #justice

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It's no secret that the recent government announcements about the new Aged Care Act will have massive implications for the home and residential care sector. While we continue to receive more information, there are still many things that remain unknown. So, what can you do to start preparing ahead of July 1st? We outline everything you need to know, and what you can do to prepare, in one article. 📌 Bookmark the article as we'll continue to update it when we get more information: https://lnkd.in/gGcmu6Bp