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As the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions began considering legislation to recharge the national effort to address the opioid epidemic and overdose death rate, a contingent of academic researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) conducted a […]

For years, LDI Senior Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Karen Lasater, PhD, RN, has been studying how the organizational dynamics of hospital nursing work environments positively or negatively affect both nurses and their patients. Lasater is the Jessie M. Scott Term Chair in Nursing and Health Policy and […]

The unwillingness of large numbers of nurses to work in facilities that maintain poor nurse working conditions is creating a critical labor shortage across the U.S. hospital and long-term care industry. As she opened a December 1 Penn LDI virtual seminar on the topic, moderator and LDI Executive Director Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, asked […]

The failure to effectively target federal safety-net funding for hospitals has, for decades, lowered the quality of care and outcomes for safety-net patients, particularly for those of color. That's according to LDI Senior Fellow and Perelman School of Medicine's Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, writing in a recent JAMA Health Forum Viewpoint focused on the Medicaid […]

The dramatic 12-year surge in enrollments that has put 50% of the Medicare population under Medicare Advantage (MA) coverage is raising concerns about both the cost and quality of that coverage as well as its ultimate impact on health equity and the solvency of the traditional Medicare program. In 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act launched […]

A collaborative project of a University of Pennsylvania research team and Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services (DBHIDS) has developed a new type of data infrastructure for regional suicide prevention efforts. Current suicide risk screening systems tend to rely on clinical factors, such as psychiatric hospitalization records. They rarely include risk data […]

A Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) initiative connecting its minority research scholars to a little-known program that adds additional funds to National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants has been picked up by the University of Pennsylvania Library System that is now promoting the program to researchers across the campus. Called the NIH […]

Ravi Parikh, MD, MPP, LDI Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine has been named the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) 2023-2024 Gilbert S. Omenn Fellow. The prestigious fellowship is designed to recognize and support early-career physician scientists who are engaged in studies combining biomedical research, public health, and clinical medicine. […]

This October 6 virtual seminar co-sponsored by University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) and Health Affairs focused on how both race-neutral and race-conscious policymaking strategies have failed to effectively address structural racism in health care. Panel members discussed a new Health Affairs paper proposing a switch to racism-conscious policymaking. Opening the […]

The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA) has announced three new postdoctoral and junior faculty who are the program's sixth cohort of CICADA Scholars pursuing pilot research and receiving training and mentorship in health services research (HSR). Established on the Penn campus within the Leonard Davis Institute of Health […]

LDI Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine Eugenia South, MD, MSHP, has been named Penn Medicine Associate Vice President for Health Justice and Director of the New Center for Health Justice. Situated within Penn Medicine, the new center will collaborate across the University of Pennsylvania Health System, […]

Appearing before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health Facilities on October 4, University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Executive Director Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, testified about the impact that widespread hospital consolidations are having on the financial outcomes, quality, and access to care throughout the U.S. health care […]

LDI Senior Fellow Christopher Forrest, MD, PhD, was named a new member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) at their Oct. 8 annual meeting. Forrest is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where he is the Director of the […]

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Also see the CONFERENCE PHOTO PAGE Is the U.S. scientific community using inadequate methods to measure and address racism in health care at the same time structural racism continues to deny millions of people access to quality health care? This weighty and emotionally freighted question was at the core of a University of Pennsylvania Leonard […]