News and Insights

With our deep expertise in behavioral health and in training and technical assistance, Altarum will support substance use disorder providers as part of the state’s Recovery Incentives Pilot.

Altarum today released its new report assessing Virginia's health care sector and tracking trends in health care spending and employment for 2022. 

The latest HSEI briefs show that health care job growth matched its 12-month peak in November, national health spending grew by 4.1% in 2022, and increases in utilization continue to outpace health care price growth. 

The Altarum Food and Nutrition team examined the impact on fruit and vegetable intake of Good Food at Home program, with support by Partnership for a Healthier America.

Altarum announced today that Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt, a national leader in public health, has joined Altarum's Board of Trustees, effective January 1, 2024.

Over the last two years, the MI-SPARC program provided primary care providers with free help to implement screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) into their practices. The resources developed from this program are now available for all clinicians and support teams on a newly launched website.

New report, "Options to Increase Access to Long-Term Care Financing, Services, and Supports in Minnesota," identifies three recommendations to alleviate the financial burden of long-term care costs on individuals and their families and Medicaid.

Monson’s experience in long-term services and supports (LTSS) will support the LTQA member organizations that represent the full range of health care and social services delivery systems involved in provision, administration, innovation, policymaking, and advocacy for quality LTSS.

The latest HSEI briefs show that personal health care spending continues to outpace GDP growth, hospital prices jump upward as economywide inflation cools, and health care job growth makes up a greater share of economywide job increases.

The recent changes in nursing home staffing, census, and the number of nursing homes operating in the U.S. raises the question of how these changes have interacted to affect the extent of understaffing during and after the pandemic and the extent to which the proposed staffing standards from CMS are currently being met. Altarum's George Miller and Corey Rhyan address this question through a review of trends in nursing home resident census and staffing levels from before the start of the pandemic through the end of 2022.

The recent changes in nursing home staffing, census, and the number of nursing homes operating in the U.S. raises the question of how these changes have interacted to affect the extent of understaffing during and after the pandemic and the extent to which the proposed staffing standards from CMS are currently being met. Altarum's George Miller and Corey Rhyan address this question through a review of trends in nursing home resident census and staffing levels from before the start of the pandemic through the end of 2022.

Altarum’s Craig Newman has been honored with the esteemed "Award for Achievements in Public Health Informatics in Newborn Screening" by the Association of Public Health Laboratories. This recognition reflects Dr. Newman's unwavering dedication and exceptional contributions to this critical field of work.