January 05, 2023 Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Challenges during the Pandemic Nearly one in three U.S. adults had either a substance use disorder or a mental illness in the past year, according to a new report from the Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration.
January 04, 2023 Hospital Margins Improve Slightly during November The nation’s hospitals saw improved financial performance during November, but still reported negative margins to date, according to a new report from health care analyst Kaufman Hall.
January 03, 2023 What to Know: A New COVID-19 Variant Gains Traction Heading into 2023, a new dominant COVID-19 subvariant has emerged in the U.S.
December 30, 2022 HAP Year in Review: The Biggest Stories from 2022 This year saw plenty of new COVID-19 developments, but we saw several other important topics come to the forefront as well, including a growing focus on health care cybersecurity, the behavioral health crisis, hospitals’ financial strain, and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
December 29, 2022 Americans Wary of Tripledemic this Winter The potential for children to get seriously ill from RSV, COVID-19, and the flu has been weighing heavily on the minds of many American parents this winter.
December 28, 2022 The State of Children’s Health in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania saw modest improvement in the number of children with health insurance during the pandemic, according to a new report from the Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children.
December 27, 2022 By the Numbers: COVID-19 Vaccines Save 3 Million U.S. Lives The U.S. has administered more than 662 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine during the past two years, potentially preventing three million additional deaths due to the virus.
December 26, 2022 5 Takeaways: World’s Childhood Vaccination Rate Plunges The pandemic has fueled a dramatic decline in child immunizations, with millions of children falling behind on essential protection against vaccine-preventable diseases.
December 23, 2022 State Receives $100 Million in Federal Funding for Public Health Infrastructure Pennsylvania is receiving nearly $100 million in federal funding to support its public health infrastructure, state officials announced this week.
December 22, 2022 Overdoses, COVID-19 Lower U.S. Life Expectancy COVID-19 and drug overdose deaths led U.S. life expectancy to decline to its lowest point in two decades, according to a new CDC report.