…the capability to treat severe trauma cases and emergencies requiring highly-specialized services, neither do many urban hospital EDs. The primary roles all EDs perform are to quickly and accurately diagnose…
…and retain the necessary workforce, the report stated. The Crisis in Rural Health Care – Saving Rural Hospitals, CHQPR Data on Urban and Rural Hospitals – Saving Rural Hospitals CHQPR…
…Home in the American Rust Belt,” I used ethnographic research and interviews to study the long-term outcomes of deindustrialization in a rural iron-mining community in Wisconsin and urban manufacturing neighborhoods…
…for good blood sugar control. One study estimated that over 25% of patients in an urban diabetes center were underusing their insulin. In July 2020, the Trump administration enacted a $35…
…civilization. But low wages, dangerous conditions, and seasonal factory closings and lock-outs meant that injury, hunger, and homelessness haunted urban wage workers. Soaring shipping costs meant that farmers spent the…
…effective policing and targeted social service programming, a range of policies could contribute to lowering shootings and other violence, including restoring vacant urban land, regulating alcohol, remediating lead, and improving education. Over the long term,…
…and allow food to be grown in urban areas and deserts without the need for light or pesticides. It would also allow more efficient fertilizer use. “The most readily consumable…
…and county adjustments The MA quality bonus program is intended to incentivize and reward high quality among MA plans. As detailed in a recent Urban Institute report, however, the net…
…the closest return to 2019 population tallies, while urban county jails have done the best job of maintaining declines. Older people’s incarceration rates rise Even if prison populations have declined…
…money delivering patient services. It costs more to deliver health care in small rural communities than in urban areas, and many health insurance plans do not pay enough to cover…