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Health policy for @VeteransHealth + @HarvardChanSPH Words in @NPR, @UpshotNYT, @statnews, @usatoday, @bostonglobe Forever yelling about mergers + bipartisanship



11am EDT #Milton video update. We'll begin with storm surge. A large area of destructive storm surge, with highest inundations of 10 ft or greater, is expected along a portion of the west-central coast of the Florida Peninsula. If you are in the Storm Surge Warning area, this is an extremely life-threatening situation, and you should evacuate today if ordered by local officials. There will likely not be enough time to wait to leave on Wednesday.


#ElderAbuse is an issue impacting #MentalHealth for both victims and perpetrators. Understanding its complexities is essential for effective intervention and #support as aging Americans face increasing vulnerabilities. By @busph 📰 Read the article: behavioralhealthnews.org/elder-abuse-an…

State leaders said preliminary deals have been reached to keep open six Steward Health Care hospitals in Massachusetts, including a plan for the Healey administration to take control of Steward’s flagship St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center by eminent domain. trib.al/xv55mMI







However, that chance is considered so questionable that regulators have conditioned the deal on dozens of conditions thepublicsradio.org/health/state-r… (2/2)

In Terre Haute, Ind., two rival hospitals want to merge, but similar hospital consolidations in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina have resulted in government reports documenting diminished care. Read more today's #HealthBrief by @samanthann. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/h…


Treatment can cause financial toxicity, or hardship due to medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses time.com/6984939/cancer…

Watching the hearings with Dr. Tony Fauci today, I'm saddened by what is not happening There are real, substantive issues about how we responded to the pandemic in 2020 How our failures in surveillance and testing meant some of the tools we used were likely too broad and blunt The challenges our country has in getting rapid testing scaled up How we didn't run enough scientific studies quickly enough to both understand airborne transmission and when/how masking might be useful How slow we were to pivot when it was clear that opening up schools was largely safe How we lack any real long-term program and infrastructure for vaccinating adults And so much more! These are not partisan questions. They highlight the challenges our country faced -- some of these issues are better and some of them still need work Because there will be more pandemics And we have to do better in responding to them