Several of The Joint Commission's elements of performance for critical access hospitals will be added or revised to align with CMS' final rule published in the Federal Register in November.— regarding restraint and seclusion as well as the complaint process
Health Equity
Nine out of ten hospital executives name health equity among their core business priorities. However, funding, reimbursement, and pandemic-related disruption remain major barriers to implementation.
The American Lung Association has established a campaign to boost the inclusion of Black individuals in lung cancer clinical trials.
High poverty rates and environmental factors contribute to the rates of intestinal infections, and a recent study found low-income neighborhoods are infected at high rates where sewage systems are in disrepair, The Conversation reported May 19.
Aurora-based Children's Hospital Colorado partnered with the Aurora Housing Authority to provide long-term housing to 20 of its patients, CBS News reported May 21.
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In the last two decades, the Black American population had 1.63 million excess deaths relative to their white counterparts, according to research published May 16 in JAMA led by Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
The price tag of inequities in healthcare cost the U.S. economy more than $451 billion annually, according to a study published May 16 in JAMA and led by the National Institutes of Health.