Who are the Ideal 911 Operators?
Washington, DC looped nurses into the 911 call flow and avoided nearly $4 million in ambulance costs during its pilot program.
Health & Human Services
Public health, behavioral health, food assistance, child welfare, and aging services.
Reading list: Health & Human Services
Reporting by other newsrooms, summarized and linked
Reading list·KFF Health News
Massachusetts Medicaid meal deliveries cut hospital visits, study finds
A peer-reviewed study of nearly 1,900 Massachusetts Medicaid patients found medically tailored meal deliveries were linked to 20% fewer ER visits and 31% fewer hospitalizations, even as federal funding for such waivers grows uncertain.
Reading list·The 74
A Kansas City health department turned around falling back-to-school vaccination rates
Extra clinics, extended hours, and a rapid-response news conference countering vaccine misinformation produced a measurable uptick in immunizations within days.
Reading list·Smart Cities Dive
DC's locked food-waste bins have diverted over a million pounds since 2024
Washington, D.C.'s network of keypad-access composting bins, aimed at apartment dwellers without curbside pickup, has grown steadily in use and is expanding by 20 more sites this fall.
Reading list·Stateline
State disclosure laws are slowing private equity's healthcare buyouts
A Pitchbook analysis cited in the reporting finds private-equity healthcare deals on pace to fall by nearly half as at least 25 states add scrutiny to medical mergers.
Reading list·KFF Health News
Baltimore is spending opioid settlement money to send clinicians, not police, to some 911 calls
KFF Health News reports on the city's plan to expand mobile crisis response, with the clearest outcome evidence so far coming from Durham rather than Baltimore.
Reading list·KFF Health News
California built insurance billing for school mental health care, and most districts still aren't using it
KFF Health News finds that four years into a $4.4 billion initiative, fewer than a fifth of enrolled campuses had filed a claim.