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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The deeper story is about something larger than vaccines: Who gets to define scientific evidence—and how does that definition become federal policy? My investigation for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Inside RFK Jr.'s 'Backdoor' Approach to Stop Vaccines
How a Reagan-era program to promote vaccine production could play a role in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crusade against the medications.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There are competing views about what these changes represent. Administration officials and allies say they are restoring parental choice, improving vaccine safety oversight, and ensuring that people injured by vaccines receive compensation. Critics see a fundamentally different agenda.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The story also examines the possibility of recognizing conditions such as autism within the federal vaccine-injury compensation system—something that is not currently the case. That could have significant consequences.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Experts I interviewed described a potential chain: Broader vaccine injuries → more potential claims → more litigation → greater uncertainty for manufacturers. The theory: you may not need to ban a vaccine to make it harder to produce or obtain.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After those roadblocks, other mechanisms came into focus—including a proposal to change the committee’s charter and a new federal committee focused in part on autism. The stakes extend beyond the vaccine schedule itself.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The investigation also examines efforts to reshape the federal committees that advise on vaccines. Those efforts have encountered legal challenges. A federal judge wrote that one set of changes “undermined the integrity” of the committee by abandoning its technical expertise.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The federal government maintains a “Vaccine Injury Table” specifying which injuries can qualify for compensation. Change that framework, and you potentially change the legal and financial landscape surrounding vaccines.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
At the center is the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, created in 1986 to compensate people who establish certain vaccine-related injuries. A key question is what qualifies as an injury under the program. That’s where things get interesting.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What if you didn’t have to ban vaccines to make them harder to get? My latest @rollingstone.com investigation examines a potential “backdoor” strategy: changing the committees, compensation systems, and evidentiary standards that shape U.S. vaccine policy.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lately, existential threats where once-vanquished viruses make a devastating comeback are no longer hard to imagine. Across the globe--amid widespread aid cuts--experts are concerned an old foe may be on its way back. Polio. My latest via @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Inside the Global Fight to Keep Polio From Making a Comeback
Inside the global fight to keep polio from making a comeback due to humanitarian funding cuts and vaccine skepticism.
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Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
From @emcahan.bsky.social reporting from the frontline of the global health care crisis: "If polio spreads unchecked abroad, it increases the risk of resurgence here at home, putting American families at risk.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... via @RollingStone
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Inside the Global Fight to Keep Polio From Making a Comeback
Inside the global fight to keep polio from making a comeback due to humanitarian funding cuts and vaccine skepticism.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
CC @asamorg.bsky.social @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @apapsychiatric.bsky.social @afspnational.bsky.social @trevorproject.bsky.social
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Last August, some teens went day-drinking. The party was pretty standard, until a classmate passed out. Then, Rilan used Narcan. Opioids are a leading killer of American kids. But, kids like Rilan struggle to get the antidote. My latest @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Naloxone Is a Proven Fix for Overdoses. So Why Can't Teens Access It?
Naloxone can prevent fentanyl overdoses, but prescribing laws, minor consent laws, and Good Samaritan laws in many states keep teens from carrying it.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Katerina's anorexia hospitalized her over & over. Even still, eventually, she found a way thru. Then, insurance cut her off. People w/severe mental illness are frequently denied life-saving care. That's dangerous. It also may be illegal. Via @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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'Going Home to Die': People With Eating Disorders Need Special Care. Insurers Are Denying It
Insurers are using loopholes in a mental health parity law to get around paying for expensive in-patient care.
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National Press Foundation @nationalpress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The judges also awarded a strong honorable mention to @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social of @theexamination.org, as well as @petersgoodman.bsky.social and Samuel Granados of @nytimes.com, for their investigation into lead poisoning resulting from battery recycling.
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National Press Foundation @nationalpress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
.@harrisalexc.bsky.social and @semerriam.bsky.social of @miamiherald.com have won the 2025 Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing  from NPF, revealing how climate change & street flooding are reshaping life & property values in South Florida. nationalpress.org/award-story/...
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
ICYMI: Senator Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare, called Benjamin Landa an example of “giant corporate health care interests that prey on the vulnerable and...exploit loopholes at taxpayers’ expense.” Lots more inside. www.propublica.org/article/benj...
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Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/03/2026
Last summer, Benjamin Landa, the nominee for Ambassador to Hungary, donated $5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Now, a facility he co-owns is in litigation with federal health agencies over an estimated $31M in Medicare overbillings. By @emcahan.bsky.social
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Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/03/2026
A New York nursing home is suing the Trump administration to stop the government from recouping alleged Medicare overpayments. That facility is co-owned by the man nominated by the Trump administration to be ambassador to Hungary. By @emcahan.bsky.social
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Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination as ambassador to Hungary, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility is suing to stop collection. @emcahan.bsky.social
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Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
1 month after Trump nominated Ben Landa, who owns >100 nursing homes, for Ambassador to Hungary, the President's own agency estimated his facility received over $31 million in excess taxpayer money via Medicare. Landa then sued the gov. It's just the beginning. www.propublica.org/article/benj...
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Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Trump’s Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments, by @emcahan.bsky.social
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Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I'm incredibly grateful to run Boston again on behalf of Boston Medical Center. Amid devastating federal budget cuts--and more to come--BMC's work helping the sickest kids, infants, and babies is more important now than ever. Please consider supporting us: www.givengain.com/project/eli-...
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The steps by HHS to hamstring the CDC (and state departments) have imperiled the public’s health for political purposes, neighborhood docs, officials, and national experts told me. It's all putting kids' lives in the balance. My latest for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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'More Kids Will Die': Measles Are on the Rise -- and Doctors Say There's No End in Sight
U.S. measles outbreak has hit 2,000 confirmed cases amid Trump and RFK Jr.'s assault on vaccines and the CDC. Doctors and health experts weigh in.
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Patrick Farnsworth @lastbornpodcast.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"That’s the trope: they’re just being a teenager. And I heard that exact language pretty much from almost every family that I spoke to, which was that at some point someone said to them, They're just being a teenager. " @emcahan.bsky.social 🔗 www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/eli...
Unfortunately, I heard a lot of disappointment, frustration, anger, sadness, and helplessness when it came to families trying to convince school systems and doctors, to say nothing of broader society, that these symptoms were not just their child being a teenager.

That’s the trope. That’s the trope: they’re just being a teenager. And I heard that exact language pretty much from almost every family that I spoke to, which was that at some point someone said to them, They're just being a teenager.

– Eli Cahan
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Patrick Farnsworth @lastbornpodcast.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Investigative journalist and pediatrician @emcahan.bsky.social joined me to discuss the magnitude of the #longCovid crisis in the youth population of the US, addressed in their recent @rollingstone.com piece. 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/long-c...
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Long Covid Is Changing an Entire Generation / Eli Cahan | Last Born In The Wilderness
Get more from Last Born In The Wilderness on Patreon
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/11/2025
Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. By @emcahan.bsky.social
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For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
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Amy 🌤️ @cloudsandsunshine.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Thank you Dr. Alexandra Yonts (who was interviewed for this piece). The clinic at Children’s National in DC is beacon of hope with only a handful of US Pediatric Long Covid clinics still running. @pidringer.bsky.social #PedSky #LongCovidKids
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Took me awhile to read this excellent, deeply researched and reported piece. So grateful to @emcahan.bsky.social and @rollingstone.com giving Long Covid in kids the attention it deserves and for highlighting the difficulties of getting a diagnosis and support. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation
Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.
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Amy 🌤️ @cloudsandsunshine.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thank you @emcahan.bsky.social for your incredible work on this piece and thank you @rollingstone.com for publishing it. So many families trusted you with their stories. #LongCovidKids
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Huge thanks to @seanwoods.bsky.social and the team as always S/o to @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @kennedykrieger.bsky.social @childrensnational.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidkids.bsky.social @longcovidfam.bsky.social among many others
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.” Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights Our @rollingstone.com investigation www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation
Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/10/2025
Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. By @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
ICYMI: Some psychiatric hospitals across the country are illegally turning away patients, with few consequences. Most are owned by multi-billion dollar for-profit companies. I spoke with @opb.org about our @propublica.org reporting www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Some psychiatric hospitals, including in Oregon, are turning away patients and violating the law, new reporting finds
Cedar Hills Hospital in Portland violated federal law. But reporting from ProPublica found that many psychiatric hospitals that turn away or discharge patients too early face few consequences.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“The executive branch is using the shutdown as cover for a...targeted dismantling of leadership across the agency," an official told @statnews.com "It’s designed to sow chaos...and cripple the federal scientific infrastructure that protects Americans’ health." www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
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‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings
The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The original @propublica.org stories are here: www.propublica.org/article/psyc... www.propublica.org/article/psyc...
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Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Since 2010, >90 psych hospitals have failed to provide emergency care to ppl in mental health crises. Most violations were by hospitals owned by billion dollar for profit companies. It's all illegal. But they've faced few consequences. We discussed on @npr.org: one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...
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🔊 Listen Now: Some psychiatric hospitals turn away patients in crisis, violating federal law
on NPR One | 6:44
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Knowable Magazine @knowablemag.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
👀 On our radar: Few consequences for psychiatric hospitals that break the law Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up. ✍️ @emcahan.bsky.social @ProPublica.org
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Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2025
EMTALA requires universal care for “emergency medical conditions” regardless of a person’s insurance status. In the decades since its passage, some patients have died hours after failing to receive care they were legally entitled to. By @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2025
Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. By @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
ICYMI: Psychiatric Hospitals Are Violating EMTALA by Turning Patients Away, by @emcahan.bsky.social
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Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2025
For 15 years, over 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country have violated a law giving patients access to emergency care, with or without insurance. Almost all the facilities faced the same lack of consequences, a ProPublica investigation found. By @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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NIHCM @nihcm.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Eli Cahan, #NIHCM Journalism Grantee, releases a second @propublica.org article on mental health facilities and consolidation. Read more: bit.ly/4nBnZo1 | @emcahan.bsky.social
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For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Over 90 psych hospitals have violated EMTALA since 2010. The vast majority are for-profit Yet only a handful have faced sanctions. When they have, the penalties are trivial vs $$ billions these companies, like UHS & Acadia, raked in last yr Part 2 @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/psyc...
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For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW: For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. by @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2025
NEW: Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found. By @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up. by @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
NEW: Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences. by @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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NIHCM @nihcm.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Eli Cahan, #NIHCM Journalism Grantee, explores critical issues in mental health care in @propublica.org. Read the article to learn more: bit.ly/4nBKrg6 | @emcahan.bsky.social
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Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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