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Sent Home To Heal, Patients Avoid Wait for Rehab Home Beds

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Many patients ready to leave the hospital end up lingering for days or weeks 鈥 occupying beds that others need and driving up costs 鈥 because of a lack of open spots at nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities. A few health systems are addressing this problem by moving post-acute rehab into the home.

A California Official Helped Save a Mental Health Company鈥檚 Contract. It Flew Him to London.

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The director of a California state mental health agency traveled to the U.K. courtesy of Kooth, a digital mental health company with a $271 million contract to build a therapy app for the state鈥檚 youth. Weeks earlier, he pressed key legislative staffers to restore a proposed cut to Kooth鈥檚 funding.

杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News' 'What the Health?': American Health Under Trump 鈥 Past, Present, and Future

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Dreaming of a Trump victory, Republicans have a wish list of health policy changes 鈥 including loosening Affordable Care Act regulations to make cheaper coverage available and ending Medicare drug price negotiations. Meanwhile, after a publicly reported death stemming from a state abortion ban, Vice President Kamala Harris is emphasizing the consequences of Trump鈥檚 work to overturn Roe v. Wade. Tami Luhby of CNN, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Joanne Kenen of Politico and Johns Hopkins University join 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News senior editor Emmarie Huetteman to discuss these stories and more.

Cyberattacks Plague the Health Industry. Critics Call Feds鈥 Response Feeble and Fractured.

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Health care weathered more ransomware attacks last year than any other sector, and that was before a debilitating February hack of payments manager Change Healthcare. Executives, lawyers, and policymakers are worried the federal government鈥檚 response is underpowered, underfunded, and too focused on hospital security.