by Diana Procopis | Aug 9, 2022 | News
New York’s essential front line health care and mental hygiene workers have seen us through a once-in-a-century public health crisis and turned our state into a model for battling and beating COVID-19. To attract talented people into the profession at a time of...
by Diana Procopis | Aug 9, 2022 | News
Guidance for schools under the federal healthcare assistance program has not been significantly updated in nearly 20 years. Dive Brief: The federal government will issue guidance later this summer to encourage states to support districts’ Medicaid reimbursements for...
by Diana Procopis | Aug 9, 2022 | News
Our nation’s young people are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. Even before the pandemic, rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts among youth were on the rise. The pandemic exacerbated those issues, disrupting learning, relationships, and...
by Diana Procopis | Aug 9, 2022 | News
New York City is planning to end its program to administer weekly coronavirus tests to a random sample of students, Chalkbeat has learned, removing one of the last standing campus COVID safety measures. The decision to discontinue on-site PCR testing after summer...
by Diana Procopis | Aug 9, 2022 | News
Five school-based health clinics serving 10 schools in Brooklyn closed last month because of budget constraints, according to a letter from operator SUNY Downstate. Now, families are rallying to try and save the facilities. City officials were “disappointed” with SUNY...
by Diana Procopis | Jul 28, 2022 | News
The House of Representatives could vote as early as Wednesday on a bill that would extend telehealth reimbursement flexibilities. The Committee on Rules moved the measure forward during a hearing Tuesday. The rule, dubbed the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID- 19 Act,...
