A dearth of state-run vaccination sites in hard-hit places like Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, East Boston, and Chelsea means that Black and Latino residents likely have to travel farther than white residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a Globe analysis of US Census data. More
Through concerted efforts the knowledge and technologies to respond to COVID-19 are being amassed. Whether we are up to the challenge of avoiding the next global crisis is another question. More
This cross-sectional study examines city-level data from the 30 most populous US cities regarding all-cause mortality rates and racial inequities within cities and seeks to determine whether these measures changed during the past decade. More
California has long been a picture of inequality, but the pandemic has widened the gap in ways few could have imagined. More
Black Americans are receiving covid vaccinations at dramatically lower rates than white Americans in the first weeks of the chaotic rollout, according to a new KHN analysis. More
A doctor has been fired from her “dream job” as a small group facilitator at a medical school in California after she shared personal and historical incidents of racism during a talk with students More
Nonwhite Americans, those with low incomes or less than a high school education, and veterans were much more likely to die of COVID-19 than others in a simulation study published yesterday in PLOS Medicine, backing the findings of previous research. More
The CDC's vaccine guidelines put people with type 1 diabetes further down the list than people with type 2 diabetes. More
Do the most privileged Americans get the best care in the world? A new study has some surprising results... More
This study estimated the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on hospital finances in 2017 to update earlier findings. The analysis also explored how the ACA Medicaid expansion affects different types of hospitals by size, ownership, rurality, and safety-net status. More
Covid-19 has taken an outsize toll on Black and Hispanic Americans — and those disparities extend to medical workers. More
Data from hospital cost reports and clinical quality measures collected by the Lown Institute illustrates unequal facility usage by Medicaid patients in four of the country’s largest hospital referral regions. In Los Angeles, hospitals with clinical quality above the national median allocate just 23% of inpatient days to individuals with Medicaid, as compared with 54% of inpatient days for hospitals in the bottom two quality quartiles. Similar disparities emerge in New York and Houston, albeit to a lesser degree. In all these markets, many facilities with the highest objective quality scores serve very few Medicaid patients, who instead rely on publicly run facilities and small private hospitals with relatively poor clinical quality. More
Fortunately for North Texas, the region is home to two of the most accessible and valuable hospitals in the nation, according to the “Best Hospitals for America” list published by Washington Monthly. The publication partnered with the nonpartisan healthcare think tank Lown Institute to evaluate 3,200 hospitals, ranking those that “save lives, save money, and serve social justice.” John Peter Smith (JPS) Health Network was ranked No. 1 hospital in the nation in the ranking, and Parkland Health and Hospital System came in at No. 9. More
Ever since the initial press release from Pfizer came out, the medical community has been waiting for more detailed results to better analyze the vaccine's effectiveness and safety. Here's what the briefing document shows. More
Black individuals are 2 to 4 times more likely than others to progress to kidney failure and are less likely to receive optimal therapies, including kidney transplants. Reasons that contribute to these disparities include a variety of factors that are a direct result of structural racism, including poor access to health care, low educational attainment, and poverty. More
Since the beginning of the pandemic, workers in essential industries needing to work in person continued going to work and keeping the nation running while risking exposure to the novel coronavirus. More
Standardizing collection of race and ethnicity data across state and local health departments would help us better gauge Covid-19's impact. More
This observational study the assesses the association of a new trauma center with transport times for trauma patients as a measure of prompt access to care and specifically examines changes in racial, ethnic, and income disparities in transport times. More
Unlike the flu, the new coronavirus leaves children mostly unscathed. More
Hospitals have a responsibility to address longstanding health inequities in the communities they serve. One way they can do this is through their community benefit activities. More