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  • Cleveland Clinic Opens Center for Infant and Maternal Health

    January 31, 2023 - The Cleveland Clinic has launched the Center for Infant and Maternal Health, an initiative designed to address maternal and infant mortality by way of community health partnerships and investment in post-partum care. The Center will emphasize the power of community health in improving maternal and infant health outcomes and integrate specialty care during pregnancy and through an...

  • Language Interpreter Services Key for Overcoming LEP Barriers

    January 31, 2023 - Poor access to language interpreter services isn’t just harmful to the patient with limited English proficiency at the center of care; it also makes things more difficult for the clinicians treating them, according to a new JAMA Network Open study. The data found that emergency medical services (EMS) workers who are the first to arrive to treat an LEP patient are also hamstrung...

  • Rural-Urban Health Disparities Persist with Higher Risk of Heart Failure

    January 26, 2023 - New National Institutes of Health data adds to the literature documenting rural-urban health disparities, with this newest study finding that those living in rural regions are 19 percent more likely to develop heart failure than those living in urban areas. The study, published in JAMA Cardiology, also found that Black men living in rural areas were 34 percent more likely to develop...

  • Unequal Home Healthcare Agency Access Yields Racial Health Disparities

    January 23, 2023 - Medicare beneficiaries of color are more likely to use unpaid, informal caregivers, like family caregivers, for their home healthcare than White beneficiaries, a trend researchers from the Commonwealth Fund said likely contributes to the poorer health outcomes experienced by home healthcare recipients of color. These findings come as the medical industry turns its attention toward home...


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Cleveland Clinic Opens Center for Infant and Maternal Health

The Cleveland Clinic has launched the Center for Infant and Maternal Health, an initiative designed to address maternal and infant mortality by way of community health partnerships and investment in post-partum care. The Center will...

Language Interpreter Services Key for Overcoming LEP Barriers

Poor access to language interpreter services isn’t just harmful to the patient with limited English proficiency at the center of care; it also makes things more difficult for the clinicians treating them, according to a new JAMA...

Do Patients Get Enough Patient Education About Their Blood Pressure?

Taking blood pressure is standard procedure for nearly any healthcare encounter, but it might be lulling some patients into a sense of false confidence about when to access care, according to a new study from the University of Southern...

HHS Issues $139M in Funding to Support Chronic Disease Prevention

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Indian Health Service (IHS), has awarded $139 million in grant funding to address diabetes disparities through chronic disease prevention and management. Native Americans are...

Rural-Urban Health Disparities Persist with Higher Risk of Heart Failure

New National Institutes of Health data adds to the literature documenting rural-urban health disparities, with this newest study finding that those living in rural regions are 19 percent more likely to develop heart failure than those...

Racial Disparities in VA Appointment Wait Times Worsened Amid COVID-19

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Black and Hispanic veterans seeking medical care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were more likely to face longer VA appointment wait times. Recent data has shown that these disparities...

Did HHS Pandemic Relief Funds Promote Health Equity?

The Department of Health and Human Services was mostly successful in its pursuit of health equity during the pandemic, at least in terms of pandemic relief fund spending, according to a new assessment from the Government Accountability...

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