Category Archives: Health Care

Updated: County Level Estimates of Highly Stressed Health Care Systems

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Andrew

The Built Environmental and Health Research Group’s online mapping tool has been updated with new data showing counties that are at high risk of experiencing patient volumes that exceed their hospital capacity over the next 6 weeks.  The maps show at risk … Continue reading →

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County Level Estimates of When Hospital Capacity will be Overwhelmed

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Andrew

A multi-institution team led by Charles Branas, and including Andrew Rundle and staff from the Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit, has been making county level estimates for the U.S. of the time until health systems are overwhelmed with patients.  The … Continue reading →

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Estimated ICU Beds Available to Respond to Patient Surges

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Andrew

Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit members Charles Branas and Andrew Rundle, along with colleagues from Patient Insight, the Mount Sinai Health System and MIT, have created estimates of the number of hospital critical care beds, including ICU beds and other … Continue reading →

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Mapping Populations at Risk for Severe COVID-19, continued

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Andrew

The Built Environment and Health Research Group’s geographer extraordinaire, James Quinn, built a new version of their interactive mapping tool for severe COVID-19.  The map depicts populations at high risk of severe COVID-19 due to older age or underlying health … Continue reading →

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At Risk Populations for Severe COVID-19

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Andrew

The Built Environment and Health Research Group has been creating maps showing where in the U.S. there are populations at high risk for severe COVID-19.  By county, they mapped the number of people 65 years and older, 75 years and … Continue reading →

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Do employees receive recommended preventive health services?

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Andrew

Large numbers of Americans receive their health care through insurance and wellness plans sponsored by their employers.  New work by Rundle and colleagues (full text here) describes a method that employers can use to analyze their medical claims data to … Continue reading →

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Hospital Financial Distress and Quality of Care

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Andrew

Catherine Richards, an alum of the Department of Epi’s Masters and Doctoral programs, and colleagues recently published an article in JAMA Surgery showing that women treated at hospitals experiencing financial distress were significantly less likely to receive immediate breast reconstruction surgery after … Continue reading →

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