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Hospital emergency department (ED) triage practices—the rapid medical assessments that determine the severity of a patient's condition and establish the priority of their treatment—have changed dramatically in recent years as EDs themselves have been revolutionized by new business and social dynamics. Constant overcrowding is now the daily norm in many EDs, with waiting room times […]

Despite evidence that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and programs improve the quality of health care delivery, a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling that struck down race-conscious college admissions has spawned a rapidly widening anti-DEI political movement that is particularly threatening to the health care workforce. That's according to Florence Momplaisir, MD, MSHP, […]

Although it was titled "Front Lines of the Fentanyl Crisis," the May 23 U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing featuring the testimony of LDI Senior Fellow and University of Pennsylvania Professor Jeanmarie Perrone, MD, included a lot of questions about the xylazine crisis. Perrone, a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine […]

For its 2024 annual University of Pennsylvania Alumni Weekend Panel Discussion on May 17, the Leonard David Institute of Health Economics (LDI) brought together three rising health services research scholars to discuss what's working and what's not in the various care delivery innovation areas they're involved in. Moderated by LDI Executive Director Rachel M. Werner, […]

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Professor and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Senior Fellow Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, has become the Scientific Leader of a new national 10-year, $250 million research and advocacy program designed to find cost effective approaches to improving health through greater access to healthy food for patients with […]

Efforts to address the rising public health crisis of firearm violence are being stymied by the lack of scientific evidence about which current laws and proposed policies are–or are not–effective interventions. That's according to a May 3 virtual seminar of top experts convened by the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard David Institute of Health Economics (LDI) […]

The University of Pennsylvania Population Aging Research Center's (PARC) 2024 Retreat on May 3 brought together an interdisciplinary group of academics whose work exemplifies the organization's reputation as an international leader in research on the structure, organization, health, and well-being of aging human populations. The event's 22 podium presentations and session posters covered the gamut […]

ALSO SEE: Companion photo story from the event In a keynote address at one of the country's foremost research centers for aging and health, demographer Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD, emphasized that most people don't fully appreciate how seemingly dry life expectancy statistics say a lot about a nation's health and healthcare-related policies and practices. And, […]

A team led by LDI Senior Fellow and Perelman School of Medicine faculty member Lauren Eberly, MD, MPH, at a Navajo Nation hospital in New Mexico has developed a simple intervention that increased the uptake of guideline-directed heart failure therapy drugs by 53%. Titled "Telephone-Based Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Optimization in Navajo Nation: The Hózhó Randomized […]

Begun as an egalitarian crusade of the Truman administration in 1946 to create a loose network of small hospitals for populations across the country's remote regions, the rural hospital movement has never faced threats to its existence as dire as those confronting it today. And that situation continues to worsen as fragmented—and often contradictory—federal and […]

In an April 11 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, University of Pennsylvania Professor Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, said that Medicare's current fee-for-service system is a key factor in producing fragmentation in care, particularly for patients with multiple chronic care conditions. "The focus isn't on producing more health, just on producing more health […]

University of Pennsylvania Nursing School Professors and LDI Senior Fellows Eileen Lake and Salimah Meghani have been named to the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. They will be inducted at the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing's 35th International Nursing Research Congress in Singapore in July. The annual Sigma Theta Tau Hall […]

Despite broad efforts since 2009 to increase the availability of health insurance and access to health care for underserved populations, low-income people are remaining sicker than higher-income people and that health inequity gap continues to grow. That's according to José Escarce, MD, PhD, the guest speaker at the April 2 annual Leonard Davis Institute of […]

CHOP's School Jelinek Wins Award for Research Work with LGBTQ+ Youth

Penn Medicine obstetrical physicians and researchers Sindhu Srinivas, MD, MSCE, and Adi Hirshberg, MD, were awarded the 2024 American Heart Association's Edward S. Cooper Award at the 2024 Philadelphia Heart Ball on March 23. They were honored for the Heart Safe Motherhood digital system they developed to improve care for pregnancy patients at high risk […]