We're excited to announce that "Tubal Sterilization And Vasectomy Increased Among US Young Adults After The Dobbs Supreme Court Decision In 2022" is on the Society of Family Planning's list of most-talked-about publications of 2025! @societyfp.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39761461/

We are excited to share that 11 Society members are listed authors on the Most-Talked-About Family Planning Publications of 2025. This annual list highlights articles that received the most attention from academics & other sources, ranked by Altmetric Attention Score. societyfp.org/sfp_2025_top...

The newly updated US Medicaid Primary Care Workforce Tracker allows you to examine the primary care workforce available to individuals with Medicaid www.gwhwi.org/medicaid-pri... This is especially useful for policy makers who want evidence-backed strategies to ensure access to primary care

Our U.S. Medicaid Contraception Workforce tracker now includes new data from 2021. This tracker identifies providers of 5 types of contraception services to Medicaid recipients & monitors location, clinician specialty, and distribution of this workforce. Check it out: www.gwhwi.org/medicaid-tra...

According to our Health Workforce Diversity Tracker, 64% of the social worker labor force and 70% of licensed practical counselors and marriage and family therapists are white www.gwhwi.org/diversitytra...

Health Workforce Diversity Tracker

The Health Workforce Diversity Tracker (Diversity Tracker) monitors progress toward the goal of greater racial and ethnic parity in the health workforce with an interactive map.

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'The majority of mental health professionals in the U.S. are white. Therapists of color are working to expand the diversity of their field and increase access to meet a rising demand for their services.' | @embodiedwunc.bsky.social www.wunc.org/show/embodie...

We're honored to welcome Dr. Candice Chen, Associate Administrator of HRSA's Bureau of Health Workforce, as a keynote speaker at ACU's 2025 Conference! A renowned public health leader, Dr. Chen oversees BHW's workforce-building initiatives across the U.S. ✅ Register now for #ACUConf: bit.ly/408VR1C

New publication by Patricia Pittman and Samantha Meeker on strategies used by Community Health Centers (CHCs) to address burnout and moral injury among healthcare providers. Read the full article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #CommunityHealth #Burnout

Upcoming webinar on the role of Medical Assistants (MAs) role in primary care. Join on June 12 from 12-1pm nyhealthfoundation.org/event/optimi... #NewYork #medicalAssistant

Optimizing Medical Assistants’ Role on Primary Care Teams Across New York State - New York Health Foundation

Medical Assistants (MAs) are one of the fastest-growing health care professions. They are key members of primary care teams who take medical histories, measure vital signs, prepare patients for exams,...

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Our report on the Race and Ethnicity of the Florida Health Workforce shows a major gap that needs to be closed among their health professions schools. Learn more socialmission.org/wp-content/u... @gw-workforce.bsky.social #diversity #healthcare #medEd

"There is a deep-rooted problem affecting the mental health of all health care providers." New Health Affairs Forefront article describes the need to tackle burnout and moral injury among our health workforce. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... #burnout #moralInjury #healthcare

Taxpayers have paid billions of dollars to internet companies to hook up rural Americans. Some communities have nothing to show for it, leaving medically vulnerable rural patients disconnected and without access to telehealth. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts - KFF Health News

Taxpayers — through federal infrastructure programs — have paid billions of dollars to internet companies to hook up rural Americans. Some communities have nothing to show for it, leaving medically vu...

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This #NationalNursesWeek we salute the power of nurses. In "Moral Injury Among Nurses: Stories of Fractured Hearts & Wounded Souls," listen or read to 23 powerful stories from nurses about their experiences with moral injury in the workplace www.gwhwi.org/moralinjury-...

Moral Injury Among Nurses

Twenty-three stories of moral injury experienced by nurses in the United States. Use the Moral Injury Among Nurses Audio Storybook to learn about their experiences.

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“You can’t just flip a switch and change the birth rate... The economic requirements — not just for having babies, but for raising babies — last a very long time, and $5,000 doesn’t really go a long way towards supporting that” @jstrasser.bsky.social

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There were 3,622,673 births in the U.S. last year, according to a CDC report released Wednesday. Overall, the number of births declined by 2% per year, on average, from 2015 through 2020 and fluctuated in the years since, according to the report.

While a federal $42 billion broadband program faces uncertainty, we visited a rural hospital waiting for a fast-enough connection. NEW TODAY: Our latest w/ @kffhealthnews.org @investigatetv.com, @caressejbskysocial.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Rural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Modern Care - KFF Health News

Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. The reliance on outdated technology and piecemeal systems challenge staffs and erode patien...

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KFF Health News found that counties without fast, reliable internet and with shortages of health care providers are mostly rural. Nearly 60% of them have no hospital, and hospitals closed in nine of the counties in the past two decades. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Rural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Modern Care - KFF Health News

Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. The reliance on outdated technology and piecemeal systems challenge staffs and erode patien...

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Bryant Rucker tells us why having a diverse PA workforce is so important, "Today, I wonder if my family in rural Mississippi would have had better outcomes if they had seen health care providers from their community who looked like us." @milbankfund.bsky.social www.milbank.org/2025/04/crea...

Creating a Physician Assistant Workforce That Represents All Communities   | Milbank Memorial Fund

We need a more racially and ethnically diverse PA workforce to reflect the US patient population, But despite the significant increase in the number of PA graduates, there has been a steady decrease i...

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“Both overtime and agency nurse staffing hours have a beneficial effect on patient safety — up until a certain point” www.mcknights.com/news/study-s...

Study shows high agency, overtime use increase pressure injury risk

The frequency of a pressure injury increases when staffing agency nurses and overtime nurse hours increased at hospitals.

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“Our study shows that when hospitals over rely on travel nurses or overtime for regular nursing staff, patient safety care may be compromised.” -Patricia Pittman, lead author of the study & Director of our Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. publichealth.gwu.edu/hospitals-re...

Hospitals that Rely on Travel Nurses and Overtime Compromise Patient Safety | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University

Hospitals that Rely on Travel Nurses and Overtime Compromise Patient Safety

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🏥 New research shows relationship between use of overtime and travel nurses on patient care. "Our study shows that when hospitals over rely on travel nurses or overtime for the regular nursing staff, patient safety care may be compromised,” publichealth.gwu.edu/hospitals-re... #Hospital #Nurse

Hospitals that Rely on Travel Nurses and Overtime Compromise Patient Safety | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University

Hospitals that Rely on Travel Nurses and Overtime Compromise Patient Safety

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🚨This Wednesday🚨 don't miss an important discussion on the challenges and solutions to increasing healthcare workforce diversity. Join 3/26 at 8pm ET & earn up to 1.5 AAPA CME credits. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #PA #HealthEquity @gw-workforce.bsky.social

Despite the challenges, higher education still has a responsibility to broaden access to public health education. Knowing these challenges will help us address them doi.org/10.2105/AJPH... #HigherEd #PublicHealth

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American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

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Indigenous knowledge should be integrated throughout #MedEd and other health professions education. Check out "An Introduction to Traditional Healing in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities" www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766... @aamctoday.bsky.social #IndigenousHealth

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are typically studied & reported as one group. New research on representation in healthcare shows significant variance between sub-populations, emphasizing the need for disaggregating AANHPI population groups #AANHPI doi.org/10.1377/hlth...

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, And Pacific Islander Population Group Representation In The US Health Workforce | Health Affairs Journal

Although the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) population encompasses more than 50 ethnicities and 100 languages, it is often treated as a monolith in research and policy. Despite substantial heterogeneity, policy makers and researchers do not usually focus on AANHPI subgroups when discussing underrepresentation and health disparities. We provide insights on the representation of AANHPI populations by disaggregating the AANHPI racial category among the health workforce and examining the representation of AANHPI subgroups in health occupations. These data indicate that although the AANHPI population is well represented as a collective population, there are population groups that are underrepresented, including the other Southeast Asian and NHPI populations in general. There is also considerable underrepresentation of AANHPI populations in the behavioral health workforce. Policy and research addressing underrepresentation and gaps in health care, which usually do not focus on the “Asian” racial population groups, should disaggregate AANHPI population groups.

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New update! Our Prescription Contraceptive Tracker now includes 2023 data. Did you know the total number of prescribers for pill, patch, and/or ring increased from between 2019 and 2023? Learn this and much more at www.gwhwi.org/tracker-cont... #MedSky

📢 NEW Internship opportunity! We're looking for a medical trainee with a passion for improving health care and health systems to work part-time supporting our Social Mission Metrics team. The internship is virtual, paid, and lasts 10 weeks. Applications due Feb 20! bit.ly/3Eicu2L #medsky

Our new #HRSA funded study found that community health workers directly billing Medicaid increased 638% from 2016-2020. By 2020, there were still only 731 CHWs billing Medicaid in the 9 states examined with Ohio accounting for 77.7% of all Medicaid beneficiaries academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Medicaid billing for community health worker services growing, but remains low, 2016-2020

Abstract. Despite the recognized value of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in improving health outcomes, the integration of CHWs into Medicaid continues to

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"It was the top story in women’s health last week," reports @gohealio.bsky.social, referring to their article on new research that evaluated changes in the OB/GYN workforce following abortion bans imposed by the Dobbs v Jackson decision healio.com/news/primary... #WomensHealth

Top in women’s health: OB/GYN enrollment after Dobbs ; complications among Black infants

OB/GYN enrollments in states with abortion bans did not change in the 2 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, according to an analysis of Medicare data from July 2017 to June 2024...

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Where can patients access prescription contraception? Our Contraception Workforce Tracker allows you to investigate this very question www.gwhwi.org/tracker-cont... Dive deeper into this topic by joining "Scaling Contraceptive Access in Primary Care" wed. 12/18 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Scaling Contraceptive Access in Primary Care. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join the Primary Care Collaborative and Upstream USA for a conversation exploring challenges to providing contraceptive care in a primary care setting – and solutions for overcoming those barriers. ...

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New research shows no significant change in OBGYNs movement based on state abortion bans since the Dobbs decision and instead shows a longstanding workforce acquisition problem doi.org/10.1093/hasc... #Workforce

Lower OBGYN Supply in Abortion Ban States, Despite Minimal State-Level Changes in the 2 Years Post-Dobbs

Abstract. Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision in June 2022, emerging reports suggest that the obstetrician and gy

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