by External Article | Jun 8, 2022 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Housing, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation |
Taylor searched desperately for help, signing Amari up for therapy and putting her on waitlists for intensive, in-home mental health services that are supposed to be available to New York kids with serious psychiatric conditions. But the programs were full, and it... 
by External Article | Oct 16, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finances |
More than half of the debt in collections stems from medical care, which, unlike most other debt, is often taken on without a choice or an understanding of the costs. The sickest patients are often the most indebted, and they’re not exempt from arrest. In Indiana, a... 
by ProPublica | Mar 11, 2017 | Outside Resources |
Introducing Vital Signs ProPublica has accumulated a wealth of data from across the U.S. about how medicine is really practiced. Get to know your health care provider better and sign up for notifications every time we update the data or if we spot something new or... 
by ProPublica | Jul 31, 2015 | Caregiver News |
Popular Blood Thinner Causing Deaths, Injuries at Nursing Homes When Loren Peters arrived in the emergency room in October 2013, bruises covered his frail body, and blood oozed from his gums. The 85-year-old had not been in a fight or fallen down. Instead, he had been... 
by Guest Author | Jun 18, 2015 | Caregiver News |
Medicare paid for nearly 40 million tranquilizer prescriptions in 2013 by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones via ProPublica. This story was co-published with the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald and Health News Florida. In 2012, Medicare’s massive... 
by ProPublica | May 27, 2015 | Caregiver News |
The federal government released detailed data on nearly 1.4 billion prescriptions dispensed to seniors and disabled people in the Medicare program in 2013, bringing more openness to the medication choices of doctors nationwide. The data release comes two years after... 
by ProPublica | Apr 2, 2015 | Caregiver News |
Muckreads Edition The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 and we’re now in the second year since health insurance exchanges got up and running. So, how’s the law doing? That’s a complicated question. With the help of senior reporter Charles... 
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