Posts for Health Equity
North Carolina Secures School-Based Medicaid Services to Keep Kids Healthy and In the Classroom
In February, North Carolina received CMS approval to expand Medicaid school-based services, creating a new opportunity to support both school based providers like Nurse Smith and expand health services.
Trump’s 2020 Budget – A Laundry List of Failed and Unpopular Policies
The newly-released 2020 budget from President Trump proposes policies and significant cuts would make health care harder to access and afford. Not only that, but they are policies that broad swaths of the American people have already opposed.
The Opioid Crisis in Black Communities: Who is Paying Attention?
As overdose deaths are rapidly increasing in many Black communities, we ask who is paying attention, and more importantly, who is taking action?
Fighting for Families: Five Health Care Policies State Legislators Should Push this Session
This week state legislators across the country are engaging in an annual week of action to lift up policies that promote economic opportunity and security for all families.
Screening for Social Needs: How Medicaid Can Address Social Determinants of Health
Several states are in the beginning stages of allowing their Medicaid program to deliver care to patients in ways that address their health-related social needs.
Building Blocks for Change: Focusing on Trauma and Children’s Mental Health in 2019
In 2018, Community Catalyst created our Top Five Health Equity Priorities for Kids to provide a blueprint for targeted advocacy. This blueprint focused on safeguarding health care access, pursuing innovation models that address the needs of the whole family and...
Deadline Approaching: Help Us Push Back Against Harmful Changes to Public Charge Rule!
Immigrant families remain the target of unjust policies that threaten their access to health care services and increase the fear of family separation. One of these latest attacks is the proposed changes to the public charge policy.
After the Elections: What’s Next? A Look at Social and Economic Health Determinants
Here are three key ways health care advocates can help the health care system engage proactively on SDOH
Message from Community Catalyst on the Deadly Attack on the Tree of Life Congregation
Today, we are grieving yet another senseless act of violence, a crime motivated by hatred and carried out in a sacred place of worship.
North Carolina Secures School-Based Medicaid Services to Keep Kids Healthy and In the Classroom
In February, North Carolina received CMS approval to expand Medicaid school-based services, creating a new opportunity to support both school based providers like Nurse Smith and expand health services.
Trump’s 2020 Budget – A Laundry List of Failed and Unpopular Policies
The newly-released 2020 budget from President Trump proposes policies and significant cuts would make health care harder to access and afford. Not only that, but they are policies that broad swaths of the American people have already opposed.
The Opioid Crisis in Black Communities: Who is Paying Attention?
As overdose deaths are rapidly increasing in many Black communities, we ask who is paying attention, and more importantly, who is taking action?
Fighting for Families: Five Health Care Policies State Legislators Should Push this Session
This week state legislators across the country are engaging in an annual week of action to lift up policies that promote economic opportunity and security for all families.
Screening for Social Needs: How Medicaid Can Address Social Determinants of Health
Several states are in the beginning stages of allowing their Medicaid program to deliver care to patients in ways that address their health-related social needs.
Building Blocks for Change: Focusing on Trauma and Children’s Mental Health in 2019
In 2018, Community Catalyst created our Top Five Health Equity Priorities for Kids to provide a blueprint for targeted advocacy. This blueprint focused on safeguarding health care access, pursuing innovation models that address the needs of the whole family and...
Deadline Approaching: Help Us Push Back Against Harmful Changes to Public Charge Rule!
Immigrant families remain the target of unjust policies that threaten their access to health care services and increase the fear of family separation. One of these latest attacks is the proposed changes to the public charge policy.
After the Elections: What’s Next? A Look at Social and Economic Health Determinants
Here are three key ways health care advocates can help the health care system engage proactively on SDOH
Message from Community Catalyst on the Deadly Attack on the Tree of Life Congregation
Today, we are grieving yet another senseless act of violence, a crime motivated by hatred and carried out in a sacred place of worship.