Nursing homes’ familiar struggles with insufficient staffing and insurance reimbursements are contributing to growing backlogs of patients awaiting throughput from hospitals to post-acute care across the US.
Massachusetts has become the first U.S. state to remove questions about healthcare professionals mental health and past drug use from credentialing processes,
Doctors struggling with trauma or depression avoided seeking treatment due to fear they might have to disclose it in the future, according to physician groups.
The state’s hospitals and insurers say they will no longer ask clinicians about their history of mental health or substance use treatment. It's an effort to encourage health care providers to seek help when they need it.
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