According to a recent study by West Health Policy Center, which focuses on seniors’ health care, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, vaccination distribution and availability across the country varies widely. Read the full article from The Washington Post.
Quality health care is unaffordable for an estimated 46 million Americans, according to a new study from Gallup and health care research firm West Health. Read the full article from Yahoo! Financet.
About 1 in 5 U.S. adults have skipped healthcare over the past year because they couldn’t afford it, a new West Health and Gallup survey of 3,753 Americans conducted in mid-February found. Read the full article from Modern Healthcare.
A Gallup and West Health survey published on Wednesday found 18 percent of respondents said they would be unable to pay for quality care if they needed it today. Read the full article from The Hill.
Torn between caring for their physical and financial health, about the same number of people reported that they simply cannot afford medical attention they actually need, according to the poll by West Health research institute and Gallup. Read the full article from The New York Post.
A December study by the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and the nonprofit West Health Policy Center found that 35 percent of U.S. counties have two or fewer such facilities per 10,000 residents. Read the full article from The Washington Post.
West Health’s Amy Herr joins a panel of experts to discuss how the use of virtual care has grown among older patients, what barriers still exist and what healthcare leaders and policymakers should do to remove those barriers and encourage growth in a sustainable way on American Society on Aging’s LeverAGE podcast. Listen to the podcast from ASA.
“The experience of Black Americans within the U.S. health care system has been extremely troubled to say the least,” said Sean Dickson, the director of health policy at the West Health Policy Center. Read the full article from FiveThirtyEight.
There is a relative dearth of medical facilities in some urban areas, particularly for Black Americans, according to a study published in February by the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Pharmacy and the West Health Policy Center. Read the full article from AP.
West Health’s Shelley Lyford and Tim Lash discuss America’s healthcare cost crisis, and the latest developments in California’s statewide effort to build a Master Plan for Aging on American Society on Aging’s LeverAGE podcast. Listen to the podcast from ASA.
