Medicaid expansion narrowed racial gaps in hospitalizations
Expanding Medicaid eligibility reduced Black-white disparities in preventable hospitalizations and ER visits by 10% or more, a new study shows.
Expanding Medicaid eligibility reduced Black-white disparities in preventable hospitalizations and ER visits by 10% or more, a new study shows.
“This study highlights the fact that even in 2022 if you’re not white, you don’t get the same therapies that white people do.”
“This study highlights the fact that even in 2022 if you’re not white, you don’t get the same therapies that white people do.”
When rural hospitals close, bystander emergency rooms elsewhere see an increase in visits, new research finds.
Interviews with people hospitalized with COVID-19 and their family caregivers reveal some unique challenges.
Interviews with people hospitalized with COVID-19 and their family caregivers reveal some unique challenges.
Overcrowding at emergency departments in the US has reached crisis levels, putting patients at risk. The COVID-19 pandemic made things worse.
A new blood test can predict which hospitalized patients with COVID-19 will get worse, even if they initially had only mild symptoms.
COVID exacted a huge toll on the well-being of health care workers who were already struggling with high levels of emotional exhaustion before the pandemic.
A tear in the aorta is still a dangerous emergency, but rates of survival once in the hospital have improved greatly since the 1950s, research finds.