The new COVID-19 booster has decent traction among adults, but many still harbor more vaccine hesitancy and safety concerns for the shot than they do for other vaccinations like the flu and RSV shots,...
Funding packages continue to stall in Congress, making a government shutdown more inevitable and leaving community health centers across the nation in the lurch.
As of publishing time, the US still doesn’t have a way to fund...
The problem of medical debt is getting worse, with new Debt.com data showing that inflation and rising medical costs are putting patients in a sticky financial situation and leaving about a third...
The Department of Health and Human Services is going all-in on COVID-19 detection and treatment again as case counts and hospitalizations tick up across the nation.
In a recent announcement, the...
Three in 10 of the immigrant patients who have accessed healthcare in the US have experienced more than one challenge in accessing culturally competent care, with another quarter saying they’ve...
Zocdoc has unveiled a new suite of tools to enable patient access and practice management, part of the Zocdoc Practice Solutions, the company announced in a press release.
The technologies will...
Very few hospitals are doing well in racial inclusivity, but there aren’t many that are vastly underperforming either, with a new analysis from the Lown Institute looking at how some...
The appointment scheduling process is proving not ideal, especially for Spanish-speaking or limited English proficiency (LEP) patients, according to data from RAND.
The study, published in Health...
A new proposed rule out of the Department of Health and Human Services seeks to update parts of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to further prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in...
Rural healthcare organizations excel at addressing social determinants of health despite the barriers blocking patient care access, a new University of Missouri study found.
Overall, hospitals and...
Jonathan Miller, MD, the chief of primary care at Nemours Children’s Health in Delaware, doesn’t think the RSV vaccine rollout is going to go the same as the COVID vaccines for infants and young kids. It’s probably going...
There are a lot of reasons why a young person might delay a preventive screening, with a new survey looking at colorectal cancer (CRC) screening showing that patient education and navigation are...
New data from the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) outlines the expansive reach of community health centers, showing how the clinics extend care access to numerous traditionally...
Only a fifth of the nearly 2.5 million adults with opioid use disorder received medication for the disease 2021, leaving millions without access to addiction treatment, according to new data from the...
A whopping 5.6 million birthing people are finding themselves without access to maternity care as the prevalence of maternity deserts continues to grow, according to reports from March of Dimes.
These...
The travel distances that gender-affirming care restrictions, now codified in many state policies, have created are getting insurmountable, with a new analysis in JAMA showing some people must travel...
Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH, wants every primary care provider asking all of their patients about HIV screening as a standard of preventive care. After all, that’s the best way to keep patients from slipping through the cracks and going...
Appointment wait times are reaching a boiling point, with new data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) pitching nurse practitioners themselves to fill in patient care access...
The United States is home to the biggest geographic health disparities in the developed world, with researchers supported by the Commonwealth Fund finding significant outcomes differences falling along...
It’s not uncommon for healthcare organizations to set up free breast cancer screening events as part of their charity care efforts to serve low-income, uninsured people. But what happens when a screening turns into a breast cancer...
