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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
4 Nov 2024
There’s an emergence of Medicare Advantage plans aggressively enrolling Veterans.
(e.g., “Honor Plan, Patriot Plan”)
Our new @Health_Affairs study highlights why we think this is a troubling trend leading to billions in wasteful federal spending.
healthaffairs.org/doi/10.137…
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25 Oct 2024
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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
8 Oct 2024
#Milton is an extremely dangerous, life-threatening storm. LEAVE NOW if you are in an evacuation zone; there will not be time to leave on Wednesday. Get help evacuating: floridadisaster.org/disaster…
8 Oct 2024
11am EDT #Milton video update. We'll begin with storm surge.
A large area of destructive storm surge, with highest
inundations of 10 ft or greater, is expected along a portion of the west-central coast of the Florida Peninsula. If you are in the Storm Surge Warning area, this is an extremely life-threatening situation, and you should evacuate today if ordered by local officials. There will likely not be enough time to wait to leave on Wednesday.
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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
23 Sep 2024
Supply of Post-discharge Care: A Key to Reducing Hospital Readmissions - new @IncidentalEcon post based on some of my past research!
theincidentaleconomist.com/w…
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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
29 Aug 2024
My piece on elder abuse and related mental health impacts out in @BehaviorHlthNws special summer issue!
@BUSPH @BU_Tweets
27 Aug 2024
#ElderAbuse is an issue impacting #MentalHealth for both victims and perpetrators. Understanding its complexities is essential for effective intervention and #support as aging Americans face increasing vulnerabilities.
By @busph
📰 Read the article: behavioralhealthnews.org/eld…
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16 Aug 2024
This is good progress! Nice to see the new buyers are all local (ish), too. Hospital mergers/acquisitions are always complicated, but stability for MA residents is the number one priority right now.
16 Aug 2024
State leaders said preliminary deals have been reached to keep open six Steward Health Care hospitals in Massachusetts, including a plan for the Healey administration to take control of Steward’s flagship St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center by eminent domain. trib.al/xv55mMI
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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
9 Aug 2024
For those who live with an EpiPen for allergic reactions, how about a needle free, nasal spray? It's on it's way - statnews.com/2024/08/09/alle… via @statnews @isabellacueto #anaphalyxis #allergies
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30 Jul 2024
I wrote about the need for top-down harm reduction for social media and this law is a good step in that direction.
publichealthpost.org/mental-…
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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
25 Jul 2024
Nearly 40 people were in the Oval Office as President Biden delivered his address explaining his exit, including his children, grandchildren and top two advisers who deliberated with him as he decided to leave the 2024 race.
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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
23 Jul 2024
Why many nonprofit (wink, wink) hospitals in the U.S. are rolling in money. Legal maneuvering, industry lobbying and lax IRS oversight leave lots of room for “operating surpluses,” by @RosenthalHealth wapo.st/3WiT1EJ via @washingtonpost
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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
18 Jul 2024
Great to see FCC vote 5-0 today to slash prison and jail calling rates.
Historically, many voice and video call contracts were awarded to the vendor that offered the highest kickback to the corrections dept. Vendors made these payments by charging those incarcerated astronomical rates.
In 2018, phone calls could cost families $1 per minute. The system was designed to maximize revenue rather than preserve familial connections. With this order, following up on 2022 bipartisan legislation, phone calls will be capped at 7¢ and video calls at 16¢ per minute at most facilities.
A few have gone even further and made calls free, recognizing the potential value on behavior both while and after incarceration. We @Arnold_Ventures are funding research to test this theory.
Congrats to our grantee @PrisonPolicy that has spearheaded this fight for more than a decade.
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Elsa Pearson Sites retweeted
8 Jul 2024
I have a new article out in the @projo about the proposed sale of Our Lady of Fatima Hospital and Roger Williams Medical Center in RI.
"The sale...doesn’t fit into the nice, clean “mergers and acquisitions are bad” box...What it is is complicated."
providencejournal.com/story/…
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3 Jul 2024
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3 Jul 2024
In Terre Haute, Ind., two rival hospitals want to merge, but similar hospital consolidations in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina have resulted in government reports documenting diminished care.
Read more today's #HealthBrief by @samanthann. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
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4 Jun 2024
This is exactly right - the nonphysical side effects of health care are huge and must be considered.
Great piece @sarklei
Treatment can cause financial toxicity, or hardship due to medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses
time.com/6984939/cancer-cost…
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I've written about this a few times myself. For @statnews:
statnews.com/2023/08/07/time…
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It's OK to learn from our experiences. It should not be a partisan issue that we didn't do everything right during the COVID pandemic. The country was literally watching "petri dish science" in real time -- the mistakes, the unknowns, the learning as we go.
3 Jun 2024
Watching the hearings with Dr. Tony Fauci today, I'm saddened by what is not happening
There are real, substantive issues about how we responded to the pandemic in 2020
How our failures in surveillance and testing meant some of the tools we used were likely too broad and blunt
The challenges our country has in getting rapid testing scaled up
How we didn't run enough scientific studies quickly enough to both understand airborne transmission and when/how masking might be useful
How slow we were to pivot when it was clear that opening up schools was largely safe
How we lack any real long-term program and infrastructure for vaccinating adults
And so much more!
These are not partisan questions.
They highlight the challenges our country faced -- some of these issues are better and some of them still need work
Because there will be more pandemics
And we have to do better in responding to them
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A child on the House floor while @repjohnrose delivers remarks.
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