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Health Care Policy
Nurses across the U.S. cite employer failures as their top reason for leaving
Nurses across the U.S. cite employer failures as their top reason for leaving
A new Penn Nursing study highlights the fact that health care employers could retain more nurses through solutions that enhance nurses’ work-life balance.
Adding diversity to your research process: A new system
Adding diversity to your research process: A new system
A Penn team has created guidelines and a best practices overview for incorporating equity and diversity into the research process.
Who, What, Why: Taussia Boadi on trauma and Black maternal health
Who, What, Why: Taussia Boadi on trauma and Black maternal health
The fourth-year sociology major’s research looks at the relationship between adverse childhood experiences, birth outcomes, and resilience in Black women.
Patients in nursing homes after hospitalization have better outcomes at specialized facilities
Patients in nursing homes after hospitalization have better outcomes at specialized facilities
A new study by LDI associate fellow Zachary S. Templeton and LDI executive director Rachel M. Werner finds that death and readmission rates are lower but stays are longer and Medicare costs are higher.
Julia Ognibene shadows doctors in Italy
Julia Ognibene shadows doctors in Italy
Julia Ognibene spent the summer connecting with family and shadowing doctors in Italy
Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields
Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields
Deans and leaders from the schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing, and Social Policy & Practice discussed climate and health at a Climate Week event.
Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection
Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection
Third-year student Claire Jun used her FLAS fellowship this summer to participate in the study abroad program at Yonsei University and a health-policy internship at the National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.
The nursing burnout crisis is also happening in primary care
The nursing burnout crisis is also happening in primary care
A study co-authored by Penn Nursing’s Jacqueline Nikpour and J. Margo Brooks Carthon finds nurses in primary care face burnout and poor work environments, especially in low-income clinics.
Health capabilities, explained
Health capabilities, explained
Jennifer J. Prah of the School of Social Policy & Practice has developed a method for assessing the individual and collective ability to be healthy.
Hospital understaffing and poor work conditions associated with burnout
Hospital understaffing and poor work conditions associated with burnout
A new study from Penn’s School of Nursing finds that physicians and nurses experienced adverse outcomes during the pandemic and want significant improvements in their work environments and in patient safety.
In the News
The New Yorker
How to die in good health
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that incessantly preparing for old age mistakes a long life for a worthwhile one.
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Associated Press
Many cancer drugs remain unproven five years after accelerated approval, a study finds
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that there should be definitive benefits to cancer drugs five years after their initial accelerated approval.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
The influence of private equity on Philly-area doctors’ practices is growing. A new study offers insight
Experts on a panel at the Leonard Davis Institute last year said that private equity-backed health care businesses should not have special rules for issues like reimbursement and transparency.
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CNN
ALS drug fails large clinical trial and may be withdrawn from market
Holly Fernandez Lynch of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the lack of good treatment options for ALS has led to an insatiable desire to develop something that is going to modify the course of this disease.
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Yahoo! Finance
Most Americans flunk when it comes to retirement literacy, study finds
Rachel M. Werner of the Leonard Davis Institute, Wharton School, and Perelman School of Medicine says that the U.S. lacks any sort of comprehensive approach to funding for long-term care.
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NPR
After his wife died, he joined nurses to push for new staffing rules in hospitals
Karen Lasater of the School of Nursing and Leonard Davis Institute says that the nursing shortage crisis is rooted in unsafe staffing ratios at hospitals.
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