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Rachel Prusynski

@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social
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DPT, PhD | Assist Prof, University of Washington Rehab Med. Physical therapist | Post-Acute Care Policy | Medicare | Co-Director of Advancing Health Services & Policy in Rehabilitation Lab: sites.uw.edu/aspirelab My Opinions Only

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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PTJ: Journal of APTA @ptjournal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
👻 Boo! Our final October issue of #PTJournal is now available here: academic.oup.com/ptj/issue/10... 🎃 Headlined by an editorial on loneliness and disability from editorial board member @jrayfalvey.bsky.social articles also cover:
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Contribute to the #APTAWA political action committee: givebutter.com/c/fallaptawa...
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APTA WA Fall Conference 2025
By Washington Physical Therapy Political Action Committee
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Center for Health Workforce Studies at University of Washington @uwchws.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Staffing in skilled nursing homes has been tough. Recent federal policy changes may be making things worse. Dr. Prusynski (@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social) discusses these issues with Kitsap Sun. familymedicine.uw.edu/chws/2025/08...
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UW CHWS Affiliate Investigator Quoted in Kitsap Sun Article on Staffing Challenges in Skilled Nursing Facilities – UW CHWS
The UW CHWS is responsible for the findings resulting from research conducted through the Center. Contents of UW CHWS research products are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, funding sources.
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PTJ: Journal of APTA @ptjournal.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Have you seen the new #AcuteCare #ClinicalPracticeGuideline?? academic.oup.com/ptj/article/... @aptaofficial.bsky.social #CPG
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A Core Set of Outcome Measures to Assess Physical Function for Adults Participating in Physical Therapist Treatment in the Hospital: A Clinical Practice Guideline
ABSTRACTImportance. Outcome measures (OMs) are an integral part of physical therapist practice and implementation can have a multifaceted effect on care de
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
There is no evidence that Trump is in the Epstein files. There is no evidence that Trump isn't in the Epstein files. Therefore, Trump should be sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
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PTJ: Journal of APTA @ptjournal.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
#PTJournal is committed to publishing #ClinicalPracticeGuidelines to advance evidence-based practice in physical therapy and rehabilitation. Learn more about how @aptaofficial.bsky.social supports member academies and sections in developing #CPGs: academic.oup.com/ptj/article/... #PTSky 🧪
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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Present, Past, and Future
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) supports its member academies and sections in the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) by fa
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PTJ: Journal of APTA @ptjournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
👂 Have you heard about the latest workforce projections for PTs? 📈 🎙️ Don't miss our podcast interview with authors of "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation." www.apta.org/apta-and-you...
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Podcast | PTJ Author Interview: Projected Physical Therapist Shortages Through 2037
Dall and Manal are co-authors of the article "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation.”
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iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany...
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany...
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Universities in Nazi Germany - History Learning Site
Universities in Nazi Germany were strictly controlled by the authorities. Senior university professors were hand-picked Nazis. The subjects that were taught in universities had to fit in to Nazi ideol...
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Unless my employer complies, we will lose over $570 million in annual funding for health and basic science research. Unless we comply. History repeats.
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Today, the #Trump administration announced that they will require universities to pledge that they have eliminated all programs that "advance or promote #DEI" in order to receive #NIH funding for science.
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Reshaping the education system, demanding that universities comply with Nazi priorities in their curricula, and eradicating certain ways of thinking was a top priority for #Hitler.
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
When I visited Poland in 2018, I learned more about how the #Nazi party targeted German universities, scientists, and academics almost immediately after coming to power.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
They got tired of fighting universities, only to have a powerful one (Harvard) fight back. So they're going to just screw us all over in one fell swoop unless we all bow down and throw away DEI programming and students' rights to free speech.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 21/04/2025
As of today, the NIH is saying it will deny funds to institutions that have any DEI programs. Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
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NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts
NIH prohibited the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
a nice crowd for Bernie and AOC on a Monday night in *Nampa, Idaho*
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Bravo to colleagues at @uwsph.bsky.social for sharing their stories in @newyorker.com to highlight the negative human and economic impacts of the reckless, indiscriminate, wasteful, and partisan cancellation of important funding for science: www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
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“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”
Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
During COVID, we learned the hard way that nearly all our hospital PPE i.e. masks, gowns, gloves comes from China. A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠
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Joanne Spetz @joannespetz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Just spotted this paper on nursing home ownership changes and staffing. TLDR: ownership changes ==> staffing decreases. (You should read the full article!) Nice work by @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social @biancafrogner.bsky.social and others at @uwchws.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Impacts of Skilled Nursing Facility Change of Ownership on Staffing: A Staggered Difference-in-Difference Analysis
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are experiencing significant regulatory scrutiny. Recent federal rules established guidelines for increased transpar…
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience
The notice says "Funding Opportunities: None"
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
How it started // how it's going
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Steering, Switching, and the Medicare Advantage “Trap” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Steering, Switching, and the Medicare Advantage “Trap”
This Viewpoint discusses the differences between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare and the trade-offs between service and convenience that beneficiaries make when selecting MA; highligh...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I can’t believe we have to explain the difference between transgenic and transgender mice
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Medicaid covers about one-fifth of all hospital spending. There's a hospital in pretty much every Congressional district, and it's often one of the biggest employers. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Medicaid covered 41% of all births nationally in 2023, including 47% of births in rural communities. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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Center for Health Workforce Studies at University of Washington @uwchws.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In work led by Dr. Rachel Prusynski (@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social), the team found significant changes in staffing as nursing home ownership changed. The findings published in JAMDA were highlighted in McKnight's Long Term Care News: www.mcknights.com/news/nursing...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It’s human nature to desire wealth/privilege (resources). One example is we all get old or sick at some point and want to be able to survive w/o working, etc. It is pathologic, antisocial behavior to hoard excess resources while watching others suffer for lack of. There are no ethical billionaires
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...
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VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
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Bertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 25/02/2025
This, as health care folks push for special visas to ease nursing and homecare worker needs and tech firms lobby for H1B visas for people with engineering skills...
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Priya Chidambaram @preetabread.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Great new work from @kff.org -- When asked about the consequences of losing Medicaid, a 55-year old Trump voter from Oklahoma said "For me it would, it would probably lead to death, and that’s kinda harshly speaking, but it’s the way that it would be." www.kff.org/medicaid/rep...
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Similar to nuclear security, they accidentally fired the bird flu people.
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Gutting Medicaid, which many rely on for maternity care and to pay for the NICU (birth weight < 1,200 g), is the most anti fetus, anti-newborn legislation possible.
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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Found this post by @matthewfacciani.bsky.social This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Trump and the GOP just gutted a major Catholic charity but apparently it’s liberals and Democrats who are anti-Christian and anti-Church
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Exclusive: Catholic Relief Services lays off staff, cuts programs after USAID shakeup
An internal email says CRS is likely to be cut in half this year from Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign assistance. Cuts will "cost people's lives and livelihoods," a former bishops' conference official ...
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Done!
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Gotcha!
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@ptjournal.bsky.social has entered the chat 🦋 #PhysioSky #PTSky #RehabSky @aptaofficial.bsky.social
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Are you a physical therapist or rehab provider that I don't have in my #PTSky starter pack? Let me know! Also- over 100 great folks here to follow for PTs or just the #Rehab adjacent go.bsky.app/HGnsb3V
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Rachel Prusynski @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Healthcare: when #tariffs are a tax on consumers, and the consumer of healthcare is the government, tariffs just cost the government more money: www.mcknights.com/news/nursing... (can we get ANYONE who has taken an econ 101 course in the current administration?) #MedSky
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Nursing homes face soaring costs without healthcare carveout for new tariffs
Tariffs declared by the US that had been set to start for two nations overnight would push costs up for many healthcare items.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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