While 'medical and dental care have traditionally been siloed,' Pediatrician Patricia Braun & her team are making strides to integrate them, particularly for low-income, uninsured, and underinsured patients. Read more from KFF Health News Kate Ruder
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Thank you for your leadership Maternity Care Caucus Co-Chairs @repyoungkim and @reprobinkelly for introducing the first Congressional resolution for Maternal Mental Health. #MMHMonth #maternalmentalhealth #maternalhealth #MMHAwarenessWeek

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If you want to learn more about how community based organizations are working within Medicaid to provide support to pregnant and postpartum people, please register for our upcoming webinar on May 22nd: *Closed to press* Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📄NEW: We joined a coalition of organizations in sending a letter to Senator Dick Durbin to explain exactly how the PREVAIL Act will hand pharma even more power to continue driving up drug prices. ⤵️

We must stop playing politics with our health care. Planned Parenthood provides essential health care to women and patients across the country, extending beyond abortion care to mental health care, prenatal and postpartum services & more. In the midst of the maternal health…

Join Families USA and our partners on May 22nd from 1-2 PM EST for Achieving the Gold Standard of Care: Transforming Pregnancy-related Medicaid Coverage to be More Holistic and Patient-centered, a panel discussion on the ways that state Medicaid programs can improve pregnancy…

To improve outcomes for women and pregnant people, and in particular pregnant people of color, individual state #Medicaid programs must reconsider the accessibility of Medicaid coverage, quality of such coverage, and the delivery of #maternalhealth care, including ensuring that…

Reimagining #Medicaid maternal health coverage is vital for addressing the #MaternalHealth crisis. Despite expanded eligibility, many women continue to face barriers to holistic care during pregnancy & postpartum. Medicaid is uniquely situated to have a powerful impact on…

A proposed mandatory model, the Increasing Organ Transplant (IOTA) Model, has been announced by @CMSgov. The model aims to increase access to kidney transplants for individuals with end stage renal disease, improve transplant quality of care, increase transplant efficiency, and…

Do you want to ask your representative to support the creation of a National Patient Safety Board to focus on implementing solutions to prevent medical harm?
Check out this easy tool to email your U.S. House member:
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📢 New requests for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research proposals from The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute). Want to learn more? Register for Applicant Town Halls starting May 9:
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Asthma is one of the most common chronic conditions in the U.S. affecting 25 million people, 4.2 million children, and disproportionately burdens Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Asthma impacts health at the individual, community, and population…