Outlook

Early Results for Medical Homes; CMS Offers Look at Other Pilots
   Whether patient-centered medical homes (PHPCs) can help slow increases in health costs while improving quality is being tested by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and a recent briefing by the Alliance for Health Reform offers some early results.
posted 5/7/13 3:39 PM  read complete story

ESRD Demo Continues; Webinar for Applicants on the 8th of May
   The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tweaks the Comprehensive ESRD Care initiative and offers assistance to potential applicants.
posted 5/7/13 12 PM  read complete story

What's Happening in the Nonprofit World
   The Nonprofit Finance Fund's most recent report on the state of the nonprofit sector contains both good and bad news. The bad news:
posted 3/29/13 12:06 PM  read complete story

Key Health Issues for 2013
   The PwC Health Research Institute identifies the top health issues of 2013, including:
posted 1/11/13 11:22 AM  read complete story

Funds Support Efforts to Aid Paralyzed Vets
   Grants fund innovative educational projects that enhance quality of life for individuals with spinal cord injuries or disease (SCI/D), to include increasing the knowledge of, and resources available to, health professionals who serve this population.
posted 12/17/12 8:08 PM  read complete story

New Initiative Shows How Economic Development and Health Goals can Match Up
   The Local Initiatives Support Corporation is using funding from the Aetna Foundation to broaden its efforts to revitalize at-risk communities through local programs that promote healthy living
posted 9/19/12 10:13 PM  read complete story

Child Injury Prevention: Plans are Coming
   The Department of Health and Human Services has selected nine contractors to receive awards of approximately $40,000 each to play a role in developing a national action plan for child injury prevention.
posted 9/13/12 8:32 PM  read complete story

Democratic Platform: Living or Dying on Obama Funding Policies
   Not surprisingly, the platform approved by the Democratic Party reflects priorities of the Obama administration pretty much across the board, calling for "balanced deficit reduction" while including calls for investment in key areas such as the economy, health and education.
posted 9/5/12 12:43 PM  read complete story

GOP Platform: The New Deal -- What New Deal?
   So what does the Republican platform, approved on Tuesday by the GOP convention, really mean for health, education and community service providers?
posted 8/29/12 2:30 PM  read complete story

Panel Looks at Health Technology to Improve Prevention: Is Funding Available?
   A joint session sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on how prevention activities involving chronic disease can improve health outcomes
posted 7/18/12 7:23 PM  read complete story