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Team From Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy Receives R01 for Study on Transportation and Health Equity

October 9, 2023

A team of researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy has received a four-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health...

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Changes in Care for Patients Receiving Hospice Care From Agencies Acquired by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Companies

September 29, 2023

Over the past three decades, hospice ownership by publicly traded companies (PTC) and private equity (PE) firms has steadily increased. As of 2019, 16% of Medicare hospice patients receive care from PE- or PTC-owned agencies. While proponents of acquisition claim these investments ...

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Patient Transfer Systems Needed to Ensure Equity, as ICUs Overload During Pandemic

July 20, 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals had overcapacity intensive care units (ICU) while other area hospitals had open ICU beds available, a phenomenon known as “load imbalance.” The hospitals most likely to be overloaded in imbalanced regions served a higher number of Black patients and more patients enrolled in Medicaid, according to a new study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

In the ...

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Using New Method, Study Highlights Physician Turnover Trend

July 20, 2023

Using an innovative method for measuring doctor turnover, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers determined that between 2010 and 2018, the annual rate at which physicians left their practices increased by 43 percent, from 5.3 percent to 7.6 percent a year.  The causes of this trend are not known, but warrant further investigation, according to the researchers.

The study, published July 11 in the Annals of...

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Medical Cannabis Laws Have Negligible Impact on Opioid Prescribing

July 5, 2023

State laws allowing medical cannabis use did not reduce prescriptions for opioids or other therapies for chronic, non-cancer pain, according to a policy analysis by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Dr. Beth McGinty, chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics at...

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