Resources & Reports

More Expectations for Hospitals
   The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services releases information designed to give consumers more information on hospital costs,
posted 5/9/13 9:43 PM  read complete story

HRSA Reports Look at Health Workforce
   The Bureau of Health Professions releases two reports on the healthcare workforce:
posted 5/2/13 12:29 PM  read complete story

Teen Pregnancy Strategies: Look at Repeat Births
   In a good news/bad news scenario, the Centers for Disease Control find teen births have fallen substantially over the past 20 years
posted 4/5/13 12:25 PM  read complete story

Health and Home: A Report on Federal Efforts
   The Departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, release an overview of their new Advancing Healthy Housing
posted 2/27/13 10 AM  read complete story

IG Finds Most States Plan on Meeting Deadline for Revised CHIP, Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment Procedures
   The Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General finds that moststates are reporting they should be able to implement streamlined proceduresfor determining eligibility and enrolling applicants in State health subsidyprograms (i.e., Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and ...
posted 2/22/13 11:22 AM  read complete story

HHS Collecting Most Medicaid Overpayments; More Needs to Be Done
   The Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Inspector General examined whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had collected selected Medicaid overpayments
posted 2/22/13 11:21 AM  read complete story

Opiods Still Major Threat for Drug Overdoses
   A report from the Centers for Disease Control found that overdose deaths from drugs continue to rise,
posted 2/22/13 10:58 AM  read complete story

The Latest Research
   Reports, Resources
posted 2/21/13 11:22 AM  read complete story

The More Patients Know, the Better the Health Outcomes
   Research by Minnesota's Fairview Health Services found that not only does increasing patient engagement improve healthcare outcomes
posted 2/8/13 08:25 AM  read complete story

Report Examines Ties Between Schools, Health, Academic Achievement
   The Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America's Health publishes Health in Mind, a new report examining the link between health disparities and academic achievement, and offers some "best practices
posted 1/25/13 10:51 AM  read complete story