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Tanesha Mondestin

@tmondestin.bsky.social
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Public health - health policy - maternal health- Medicaid - immigration- Research Associate at Georgetown University Center for Children and Familes ccf.georgetown.edu

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Finally, There are Adults in the room.....👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It's Day 5 of #BlackMaternalHealthWeek! This year's theme, Rooted in Justice and Joy, honors 10 years of Black-led movement-building AND demands accountability for systems that fail Black Mamas. I discuss how policies have a direct impact on maternal health outcomes in my new blog (bit.ly/4caj0Y0).
Black pregnant woman with a big smile dressed in bright colors with arms wide open.
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Allison Orris @aorris.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Waking up to House passage of bill that will take health coverage away from roughly 15m people. Here's our @centeronbudget.bsky.social analysis of an earlier version. Big change overnight: #Medicaid work requirements start even sooner, risking even more coverage losses. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
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House Republican Health Agenda Cuts Coverage, Raises People’s Costs | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The amount of health care cuts and the number of people losing coverage and becoming uninsured are expected to grow as House Republicans make changes in preparation of bringing the bill to the House f...
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
You can read more here: ccf.georgetown.edu/2023/10/03/c...
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CMS Releases Guidance on 12-Month Continuous Eligibility for Children
CMS has released long awaited guidance to states on implementing 12-month continuous eligibility (CE) for all children in Medicaid and the Children’s Insurance Program (CHIP) under the age of 19 as…
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
As Congress considers debilitating cuts to Medicaid, our new @georgetownccf.bsky.social report finds that families in rural areas are more likely to rely on #Medicaid for their coverage than in metro areas. The report and data for your state are here: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/15/m...
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Medicaid’s Role in Small Towns and Rural Areas
Key Findings Non-elderly adults and children in small towns and rural areas are more likely than those living in metro areas to rely on Medicaid/CHIP for their health insurance. As a consequence, r…
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Whitney Zahnd @whitneyzahnd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My friend and colleague, Peiyin, is studying Medicaid perinatal coverage. Please complete the survey if relevant to your work!
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Black Maternal Health Week 2025 is is a celebration indeed and the fight for birth equity is ongoing. Thanks to Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Inc. (BMMA)’s leadership in this space. So much has been released this week. Here are a few highlights:
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Black Mamas Matter Alliance @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Where the Work Happens: Part 1! Our BMMA Alliance Partners are on the ground—organizing, healing, and pushing for change in their communities. 💪🏾🖤 These orgs are advancing Black Maternal Health every day. Show love: follow, share, support. ✨ More partners dropping tomorrow! #SupportBlackLedOrgs
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Elisabeth Wright Burak @ewburak.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
From @tmondestin.bsky.social: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/04/17/b...
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Black Maternal Health Week 2025: Healing Legacies: Strengthening Black Maternal Health Through Collective Action and Advocacy
The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) founded Black Maternal Health Week, which is celebrated annually from April 11 to 17 during National Minority Health Month. Black Maternal Health Week amplifi…
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Black Mamas Matter Alliance @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Maternal mental health is maternal health. Yet Black women facing postpartum depression are often dismissed or go without care. Policies like CA’s SB 626 and the work of our Alliance Partners are changing that—providing healing, support & culturally aligned services. #BMHW25 #MentalHealth
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Black Mamas deserve more than survival—they deserve to thrive. This #BMHW25, we’re amplifying the power of Black-led organizations, community care, and policy change to create lasting impact. Join us in the fight for Black Maternal Health equity! #HealingLegacies #BlackMamasMatter
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Elisabeth Wright Burak @ewburak.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Latest from @tmondestin.bsky.social @georgetownccf.bsky.social: Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC Work Together to Help Families – Draconian Cuts Would Decrease Access to All
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Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC Work Together to Help Families – Draconian Cuts Would Decrease Access to All
The National WIC Association, Urban Institute, and the Commonwealth Fund have all recently written about the economic impact of cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the …
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very excited to be attending the Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice at @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social. Black fathers are involved in the lives of their children and are just as important as mothers in this fight to address maternal health inequities. #ProudDaughterofaBlackFather
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/03/2025
“The word ‘stillbirth’ never came up.” Many parents never hear about stillbirth until it happens to them. Our new documentary explores loss, healing and hope as it chronicles 3 mothers touched by the U.S. stillbirth crisis. Join us for a discussion about the film on Wednesday, April 2 at 4 pm ET ⬇️
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“Before a Breath”: ProPublica’s New Documentary About the U.S. Stillbirth Crisis
Join us for a compelling discussion of this intimate, infuriating and ultimately hopeful film that illuminates the aftermath of stillbirth.
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A8: Medicaid coverage ensures access to preventive services, screenings. Medicaid also pays for prescriptions to help manage chronic conditions. #WellnessWed #MedicaidMatters nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/u...
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The Children's Partnership @kidspartnership.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Medicaid covers mental health care, including therapy and support for depression and anxiety, crucial during and after pregnancy. It funds postpartum screenings and treatment, aiding recovery. #WellnessWed
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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Just over half of U.S. voters support keeping ICE off K-12 school grounds, according to a new poll by The Century Foundation and Morning Consult. "Access to a free, safe, and quality public education is a cornerstone of our nation," says TCF's @alevazquezbaur.bsky.social via @axios.com.
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Exclusive: Slim majority of voters support keeping ICE off school grounds
Just over half of U.S. voters surveyed say K-12 schools should be off limits for immigration enforcement.
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 12/03/2025
A3: Without Medicaid, 1 in 5 non-elderly women would lose access to essential care, face impossible choices between paying for care or meeting basic needs. Women without coverage delay critical screenings, struggle to access reproductive services & enter pregnancy without proper care. #WellnessWed
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Justice in Aging @justiceinaging.org · 12/03/2025
A1: Almost 1 in 5 people 50-64 relies on Medicaid to access health care. This is vital for older women who are not yet eligible for Medicare and are full-time caregivers or don’t have job-based health insurance. #WellnessWed #MedicaidMatters
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A7: Medicaid has a long-term and multi-generational impact on mothers and families. Healthier families may lead to healthier individuals who can get an education, work, and earn more money. #WellnessWed #MedicaidMatters ccf.georgetown.edu/2023/08/28/m...
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Georgetown CCF @georgetownccf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Untreated mental health conditions are a leading cause of maternal mortality. Cuts to Medicaid would make it harder for new and expectant mothers to get lifesaving care and treatment. #WellnessWed ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/19/m...
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Medicaid’s Role in Child, Youth and Adult Mental Health
Addressing the nation’s mental health crisis relies on a strong Medicaid program. The United States is enduring a significant mental health crisis, with nearly one in three adults experiencing anxi…
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Georgetown CCF @georgetownccf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Medicaid expansion is good for moms and babies. It has been linked to larger decreases in maternal and infant mortality, greatest benefits for those at highest risk. #WellnessWed ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/28/h...
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How Medicaid Supports Maternal and Infant Health
Medicaid helps mothers and babies get the care they need. Medicaid coverage plays a vital role in ensuring that no mother or infant falls through the cracks during the first year postpartum. Medica…
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A5: Medicaid pays for 65% of births to Black mothers. Research has shown a reduction of Black maternal deaths in states that have expanded Medicaid. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
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Closing the Coverage Gap Would Improve Black Maternal Health | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Policymakers are paying long-overdue attention to reducing high and increasing rates of deaths and severe health complications among Black people who give birth. Comprehensively addressing this challe...
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A4: States who have expanded Medicaid, have seen a decrease in coverage gaps for pregnant women. #WellnessWed #MedicaidMatters ccf.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 12/03/2025
A2a: Protecting #Medicaid just makes sense. When women go from having no insurance to having Medicaid, they can finally afford the preventive health care their doctors recommend – pap screenings, colonoscopies, and more. Seeing a doctor early makes treatment easier and cheaper! #WellnessWed
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 12/03/2025
A1a: For moms-to-be, it provides crucial care in a country with the highest maternal mortality rate among wealthy nations—care that helps close race and health inequities from pregnancy through postpartum. #WellnessWed
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Without Medicaid, many people would be uninsured. Research has linked being uninsured to having an increased risk in chronic health conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, all which can adversely impact women who want to become pregnant. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/28/h...
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How Medicaid Supports Maternal and Infant Health
Medicaid helps mothers and babies get the care they need. Medicaid coverage plays a vital role in ensuring that no mother or infant falls through the cracks during the first year postpartum. Medica…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @MatttDavies)
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Medicaid is the largest payer of births in the United States. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/28/h...
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How Medicaid Supports Maternal and Infant Health
Medicaid helps mothers and babies get the care they need. Medicaid coverage plays a vital role in ensuring that no mother or infant falls through the cracks during the first year postpartum. Medica…
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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Half of American children participate in SNAP at some point in their childhood. Learn more: bit.ly/GOPSnapCuts
Orange and grey quote graphic from Rachel West, TCF senior fellow and former special assistant for labor and workers at the White House Domestic Policy Council, pointing to an article about SNAP cuts which would impact nearly half of all U.S. children at some point in their childhoods.
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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 12/03/2025
Who's joining us for #WellnessWed today? #MedicaidMatters #MOMSky
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025
Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.
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Tanesha Mondestin @tmondestin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
@georgetownccf.bsky.social’s @edwincpark.bsky.social joins @npr.org to explain how federal budget cuts will lead to millions losing Medicaid coverage. The math doesn't add up otherwise. Listen: www.npr.org/2025/03/10/1...
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Republicans say Medicaid is safe. But budget math says otherwise : Consider This from NPR
House Republicans have to get their spending bill passed by Friday to avoid a government shutdown. They can likely afford to lose just one vote. And that's the easy part. Then they'll have to get work...
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Katie Beckmann, PhD, MPH @kbeckmann1231.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care
Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
@aoc.bsky.social: "They're saying cut $880 billion from the Energy & Commerce Committee. I sit on that committee. Almost the entire budget that Energy & Commerce explores is Medicaid and Medicare. There is no way they can make their math square without enormous and devastating cuts to Medicaid."
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Joseph Betancourt @jbetancourtpr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Everyone deserves access to health care. Extending Medicaid to people reentering society after incarceration reflects our values and commitment to equity.
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Expanding Health Insurance for Formerly Incarcerated People
Determining whether interventions for formerly incarcerated people are working is difficult without data to measure health outcomes and incarceration history.
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 24/02/2025
Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid. But what exactly is it? KFF Health News' Sam Whitehead discusses Medicaid’s history and role in the U.S. health system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZJ...
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What Is Medicaid, Again?
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In the federal worker purge so far, Trump + DOGE have terminated public health experts who were: * Protecting kids from harmful tobacco products. * Keeping mothers and babies from dying. * Upgrading the donor organ network that saves critically ill people. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
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Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 24/02/2025
We dive into the confusion and chaos caused by Donald Trump's ridiculous health care policies, from a funding freeze that shut down Medicaid portals in all 50 states to the nomination of an unqualified, unfit, and utterly confused cabinet nominee in RFK Jr. w/ @protectourcare.org.
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V+ Noticias @vmasnoticias.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Eliana Thélémaque, recientemente deportada de República Dominicana, fue obligada a presenciar el asesinato de su hijo en Kenscoff. vmasnoticias.com/2025/02/17/h...
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Haití: Madre muere de dolor tras ver a su bebé quemado vivo
Eliana Thélémaque, recientemente deportada de República Dominicana, fue obligada a presenciar el asesinato de su hijo en Kenscoff.
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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities. Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (Gift Article)
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.
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The Commonwealth Fund @commonwealthfund.org · 14/02/2025
If Medicaid costs are increasingly shifted to states, will Americans face higher state taxes or reduced access to care? See Sara Rosenbaum and @abarkoff.bsky.social in @healthaffairs.bsky.social for insights on what lies ahead for #Medicaid in budget reconciliation.
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What Lies Ahead For Medicaid In Budget Reconciliation? | Health Affairs Forefront
Should Congress pursue a wide range of possible budget-cutting strategies during the budget reconciliation process, all Medicaid populations, from the youngest infants to the most vulnerable older adu...
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Katie Beckmann, PhD, MPH @kbeckmann1231.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Roses are red, violets are blue. Cuts to Medicaid will harm 80 million children, pregnant women, elderly, low income adults, and disabled people. #healthpolicyvalentines
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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It's a hard day to post witty #HealthPolicyValentines. I wish I could send a valentine to every career employee at HHS. ACF ACL AHRQ ARPA-H ASPR ATSDR CDC CMS FDA HRSA IHS NIH SAMSHA and the Office of the Secretary Thank you.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Preventing public health agencies from communicating with the public will not make America healthy again. This will leave us in the dark in the middle of respiratory season, with serious ongoing concerns about everything from bird flu to cases of whooping cough.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Connecting the dots: once again no similar pledge to protect #Medicaid from cuts + House E&C Chair Guthrie saying health care will be "a big part" of reconciliation all point to intention of GOP Congress to make massive cuts to Medicaid this year if they can get them through the House. #healthpolicy
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Medicaid Facts: #Medicaid serves a vital countercyclical, economic stabilizer role during recessions. When unemployment rises and state tax revenues fall, federal Medicaid funding rises in response as more people become eligible if they lose their jobs & job-based coverage. #healthpolicy
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
As House Republicans make clear they want to impose draconian cuts and caps on Medicaid this important new piece from @centeronbudget.bsky.social illustrates what is at stake. Medicaid is the backbone of health care covering 4 in 10 kids/births + is the primary payer for people in nursing homes.
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Amaya Diana @amayadiana.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In the past month CMS has approved 5 Medicaid waivers to provide reentry supports to individuals leaving incarceration, bringing the total to 16 states. Other major areas of activity include approving services targeting social determinants of health & behavioral health. For more, see KFF’s tracker:
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Section 1115 Waiver Tracker Key Themes Maps | KFF
Social Determinants of Health Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. SDOH include but are not limited to housing, food, education, ...
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