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Paying Attention to Hospital Quality of Care
Two things in this post: 1. an update on the proposed Massachusetts pilot program for automated monitoring of adverse events in a set of MA hospitals; and 2. an essential reading on the current state of quality of care from NYU’s Sherry Gli...
My New Book is out: “America’s Wrong Turn: US Healthcare in the Neoliberal Era."
Today, August 11th, is the official publication date for my new book, America’s Wrong Turn: US Healthcare in the Neoliberal Era, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, easily available on Amazon, and best purchased from Hopkins Press...
Private Equity’s Growing Healthcare Footprint
For over 15 years, the US private equity finance industry has been hyperactive in health and medical care, buying up and selling hospitals, nursing homes, home health and hospice vendors, physician practices, and so much more. These involve...
Trust in US Medical Care Drops to All Time Low
For many decades, the Gallup organization has been measuring Americans’ confidence in our key societal institutions, 9 measures annually since 1979 and 14 since 1993. One of the institutions on their list of 14 is “the medical system” where...
It’s Been 60 Years Since the End of Acute Care Hospital Segregation
Sixty years have passed since the federal government compelled all U.S. acute care hospitals to end racial segregation by July 1 1966 as the price to participate in the new national health insurance program called Medicare.
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I write on US/state health policy/politics. I’m a prof at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. I’m a former state rep and US senate staffer. I’ve done 4 books (one coming Aug. ’26.) Thanks for checking this out. — John McDonough
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