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Research & Policy Updates

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How Patient Surveys Can Help Realize the Goal of Patient-Centered Care

These Five Strategies Can Make Surveys More Impactful, Says Wharton/LDI’s Ingrid M. Nembhard

By:
  • Karl Stark
July 24, 2025

Blog Post

Population Health

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Less Maternity Care

Chart of the Day: New Study Maps Maternity Care Gaps in Smoke-Prone U.S. Counties

By:
  • Christine Weeks
July 23, 2025

In Their Own Words

How the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Could Gut the SNAP Food Program

Largest-Ever SNAP Cuts Could Trigger a Food Insecurity Crisis in Pennsylvania and Other States, Experts Warn in an Op-Ed on PennLive

By:
  • Aditi Vasan
  • Danarose Negro
July 22, 2025

News

Improving Care for Older Adults

How Medicaid Cuts Will Affect Quality and Access in Long-Term Care

Home Care May be Hardest Hit, LDI’s Rachel M. Werner Tells Marketplace’s Make Me Smart Podcast

By:
  • Karl Stark
July 21, 2025
Doctor and patient meeting, doctor holding bottle of medication

In Their Own Words

Superbugs Put Cancer Patients at Risk

Oncologists Urged To Recognize Rising Antimicrobial Resistance as a Direct Threat, Says LDI Expert

By:
  • Yehoda M. Martei, MD, MSCE
July 18, 2025

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

A Bold Plan to Fix Medicaid

Democrats Must Go Beyond Reversing Trump-Era Cuts With a New Strategy to Streamline Coverage, Reduce Waste, and Expand Access to Medicaid

By:
  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
July 17, 2025

Blog Post

Health Equity

A Hidden Threat After Cancer: Food Insecurity and Early Death

Food-Insecure Cancer Survivors Live Shorter Lives, Especially if They Can’t Use Federal Programs Like SNAP

By:
  • Christine Weeks
July 16, 2025

Policy

Policy Recommendations for Strengthening the Accelerated Approval Program for Oncology Drugs

Memo: Delivered to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

By:
  • Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE
  • Steven Joffe, MD, MPH
July 15, 2025

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Over 500 U.S. Hospitals Have Stopped Delivering Babies Since 2010

A Crisis in Maternal Care is Unfolding—and it’s Hitting Rural and Urban Communities Alike

By:
  • Liz Seegert
July 10, 2025

Blog Post

Health Care Payment and Financing

Pennsylvania’s Big Plan to Save Rural Hospitals Gets Mixed Reviews

Stable Payments Improved Margins But Not Liquidity, New LDI Analysis Finds

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
July 9, 2025

News

Penn Nursing’s Jane Muir Wins 2025 Emergency Nurses Association Award

LDI Senior Fellow Cited for "Significant Contributions" in Research

By:
  • Hoag Levins
July 9, 2025

Blog Post

Health Equity

HIV is Not a Crime: The Case for Ending HIV Criminalization

Outdated Laws Target Black and Queer Lives in Over 30 States, Fueling a Deadly Disease

By:
  • Karl Stark
July 8, 2025

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