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School Medicaid stands at a crossroad. At a time when students’ health care needs are growing, school Medicaid plays a critical role in supporting student health and learning. Yet, H.R.1 jeopardizes this sustainable funding source for schools across the country, raising concerns about the future of school health services and students’ well-being.
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and AcademyHealth are studying doulas’ experiences with Medicaid reimbursement. The team conducted 16 focus groups with 58 doulas across 6 states to understand the challenges they faced, what made their experience easier, and the benefits of their services for Medicaid clients.
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Patient safety research helps turn evidence into better care. In the latest Evidence Effect story, hear from former AHRQ Director Dr. Robert Valdez about how a national patient safety initiative helped hospitals reduce harm and improve outcomes for patients nationwide.
Posted Sep 8, 2026
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AcademyHealth announces the launch of the Scaling Cancer Biomarker Testing Coalition’s Strategic Roadmap for Collective Action, a strategic framework for advancing cancer biomarker testing at scale.
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Coming from Canada, Laura Yudo expected to hear that a single-payer system was the fix for U.S. health care's biggest problems. Instead, conversations with scholars from France, Ghana, Rwanda, Nepal, and beyond convinced her that no country has it all figured out, and that the real value lies in learning from each other's trade-offs.
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School Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of students who depend on school health services to learn and thrive. Over the years, school Medicaid has expanded to reach more children. Yet despite this growth, school Medicaid programs continue to face persistent challenges including administrative burdens and funding uncertainties.
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In this reflection for Work Interrupted: Voices from the Field, Hannah Scott writes about losing her mother during graduate school and, just as life began to feel possible again, losing her job. What follows is an honest account of grief, disruption, and the ongoing process of rebuilding when the ground shifts more than once.
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America’s children are getting sicker, with chronic and mental health conditions on the rise, trends worsened by the pandemic and felt most by underserved communities. Schools have become critical hubs for care, supported in part by Medicaid. In this three-part series, we’ll explore school Medicaid’s role and what’s at stake as policy changes, including H.R.1, threaten its future.
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Much of today’s health communication assumes public trust in institutions was lost and simply needs to be restored. But for many communities, that trust was never fully established. Researchers from Germany, the UK, and the U.S. suggest the challenge is not becoming more persuasive, but becoming more trustworthy.
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For a health system to advance equitable outcomes, equity must be intentionally built into a health system from the start, and international examples of health system funding design, reward systems, and accountability offer lessons for the United States.