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May 2022
The United States is facing a dire shortage of direct care workers who provide essential services to older adults and individuals with disabilities.… More
April 2022
Hailing from a family kept afloat partly by taxpayer-funded aid initiatives — and by neighbor-to-neighbor acts of kindness — made Kody Kinsley’s choice of a public sector career something of a no-brainer. More
March 2022
On February 24, during Innovation and Integration: Addressing the U.S. Mental Health Crisis through Primary Care Partnerships, the second event in Blue Shield California and Milbank Memorial Fund–sponsored Primary Care Payment Innovation series, participants discussed how partnerships, payment innovation, and digital health in primary care can help to address mental health. More
February 2022
Samuel L. (Tony) Milbank has announced his resignation as… More
January 2022
Despite evidence that primary care improves the health of populations and reduces health inequities, primary care in the United States is in a… More
As the COVID-19 pandemic wound on, 2021 proved another unpredictable and challenging year for public health and health care. Our top 10 most-read… More
December 2021
Milbank Memorial Fund is partnering with Blue Shield of California on a three-part event series on how payer, provider, and government participants can work together to develop population-based payment models that strengthen primary care. More
November 2021
This month, Rhode Island became the sixth state to join the… More
October 2021
Increasingly, hospitals have merged to form dominant health systems that can exert market power and charge anticompetitive prices that burden the… More
September 2021
A Children’s Health and Wellness Fund is an approach to collecting and administering funding from different sources that states can use to support social determinants of health (SDOH) initiatives for children and families. More
