Population Health
Partnership will be guided in part by a 10-year strategy, and will also support Vice President Joe Biden's National Cancer Moonshot initiative.
New contract builds on successful three-year partnership with Cook County Health and Hospital System.
The new models often require practices to take on downside financial risk, which is a lot to ask of an organization with scant resources.
The high-need population is older, has lower levels of education and income and includes more women and African Americans.
The study builds on existing research that confirms nutrition can be a simple, cost-effective tool.
With a backlog of patients, home health services are limited by their ability to attract and recruit quality staff.
Center will task students, faculty with applying geographic information systems technology to medical geography research.
Opportunities include expanding the list of acceptable activities, greater transparency, new tax guidance on improvement activities.
Law has brought coverage to tens of thousands of previously uninsured shooting victims, often young African-American men, who missed follow-up care.
Smooth transition is important for 20 million people who gained health insurance through law, Republicans don't want blame for lapses in coverage.