Do Medicaid DSH funds go to the hospitals that need them most?
But are the payments going to the right hospitals—that is, those focused on serving low-income patients? To find out if federal funds go to hospitals that serve low-income patients, LDI senior fellow Paula Chatterjee, and other researchers conducted an in-depth analysis of the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program. Federal statute outlines criteria for identifying hospitals that must receive payments, but little is known about how states allocate payments outside of those criteria—or what impact they have on access to care for low-income Americans.
Danielle Cavalcanto, associate director of Interiors with the Perelman School of Medicine, was recognized for instilling sustainable factors in her interior designs, frequently matching inventory in storage to newly configured workspaces.
An interview with National Association of Hispanic Nurses’ Philadelphia chapter president
Azucena (Susy) Villalobos, a nurse in the surgical intensive care unit and master’s student at Penn Nursing, was inspired to join NAHN’s local chapter “by the wide breadth of work that these Latinx nurses were doing for their communities.”
Hero worship: What happens when jobs are suddenly moralized
Grocery delivery workers were hailed as heroes during the pandemic, but not every gig worker considered themselves worthy. New research from Wharton’s Lindsey Cameron explores the business consequences of becoming an overnight hero.
Why do Black patients receive fewer emergency surgical consultations than white patients?
A research team that included LDI senior fellows Rachel Kelz, Elinore Kaufman, Mark Neuman, and Matthew McHugh have investigated whether Black patients and white patients receive surgical consultations at the same rate.
Max Cavitch receives Excellence in Journalism Prize
The associate professor of English has received the 2022 Excellence in Journalism Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association for his blog, “Psyche on Campus.”
What can be done to break the link between disability and incarceration?
A recent LDI study examines the 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and finds that disabled people are vastly overrepresented in prisons and were more likely than nondisabled people to have previously resided in punitive and therapeutic institutions.
Hope and relief for neurological symptoms of long COVID: The Penn Neuro COVID Clinic
The Neuro COVID Clinic at Penn Medicine launched in April of 2021. It is the only one in the region that specifically addresses the neurological symptoms of long COVID; its four clinicians have evaluated over 300 patients, who have been confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19 and are at least two to three months in recovery.