Public Health

Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation that will expand Michigan's Medicaid program to cover 470,000 additional state residents under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Novant Health is using crowdsourcing to generate ideas for its Salisbury, N.C.-based Rowan Medical Center's push to reduce obesity in its community, according to a report from the Salisbury Post.

The Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems has become the first association to enroll all of its hospitals in the Healthier Hospitals Initiative, a hospital-based organization focused around environmental sustainability in the healthcare sector.

Missourians want the state to both expand and reform the Medicaid program, a group of state lawmakers and citizens has concluded, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

HHS has announced $69.7 million in grants to 13 states to expand services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Maternal, Infant and Early Childhod Home Visiting Program.

Sequestration is a dirty word for many hospitals. The automatic, 2 percent spending cuts to hospitals' reimbursement from the federal government — required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 — put additional pressure on hospitals' already tight margins. Reduced…

About 14 million Americans will gain insurance from Medicaid expansion and the insurance exchanges by next year — and that number is expected to grow to 34 million by 2017, according to Truven Health Analytics. The influx of new patients…

Uninsured patients are not distributed evenly across the country or across demographic groups, according to Census Bureau information reported by The Wall Street Journal.

New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers University broke ground on its $56 million New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health last week.

From 2010 to 2011, 19 states such as Texas, California and Florida experienced a significant decrease in their rate of uninsured residents, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau.