March 15, 2021 New Orleans A dozen years ago, the US government created a consumer-facing rating system for nursing homes to allow families to make informed decisions about where to place loved ones in order to receive the best care they could afford. Homes would be rated by the number of stars they received …
The Fog of Hospital Transparency
March 12, 2021 New Orleans ACORN, Local 100 United Labor Unions, and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center have spent recent months with the help of two outstanding Tulane University research interns studying the compliance of hospitals with transparency rules promulgated by the federal government. We’re not finished by a long shot, but …
3/11 Pandemic Anniversary
March 11, 2021 New Orleans 9/11 has been a date fixed on the mental calendar of Americans for what will be twenty years this September of 2021. It is worth wondering whether 3/11, the one-year anniversary of the pandemic shutdown in America, will also be an equally momentous date that we come back to …