We explore how Durham grapples with connecting people to long-term care and support, and where the city draws the line between crisis response and social services.
Health and Social Services
Posted inCost of Care
How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?
Health care leaders share what they’ve learned from two decades of trying to keep this group of costly, complicated patients out of the hospital.
Posted inInsurance
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
The ambitious plan has required big changes from providers and health insurers.
Posted inInsurance
California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid
We trace the origins, early results and challenges of California’s ambitious new Medicaid initiative to pay for some non-medical services like connecting people to housing.
Posted inInsurance
Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets
Medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people — is on the rise.
Posted inHealth Equity
Presenting Sick: Screaming in the Shower
An episode of Side Effects Public Media’s “Sick” podcast exploring health care at one women’s prison in Indiana.
Posted inInsurance
Medicarried Away? (LIVE)
A look at a universal coverage plan that is very different from the Medicare for All we’ve been hearing about.