AS HEALTH CARE professionals and affordable housing leaders, we endorse Mayor Michelle Wu’s recently proposed rent stabilization plan for Boston. Investment in rent stabilization is an investment in health, health equity, and the health of our local communities. Boston’s housing affordability crisis continues to be a threat to the health of communities. According to The […]
Jarone Lee
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Investing in housing equity = investing in health
AS HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS and affordable housing experts, we strongly support Mayor Michelle Wu’s recently proposed Inclusionary Development Policy increases and linkage fees for lab space. Increasing funds for affordable housing will lead to improved housing equity in the city and lead to significant positive impacts on the health outcomes of individuals and the communities they […]
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3 key steps for moving forward with telehealth
AT THE OUTSET of the pandemic, payers, policymakers, and providers at the local, state, and national levels rallied to rapidly expand the financial and technological infrastructure around telemedicine services. Such coordinated responses were critical to ensuring sustained, high-value, high-quality care for patients across our nation. Massachusetts specifically engaged several future-oriented telehealth services to better serve […]
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Climate change is fundamentally a health issue
AS THE WILDFIRES raged out west on July 26, we woke up to a hazy sky that was uncharacteristic of the Boston area. The usual clear and clean skies of living next to the ocean disappeared and our air quality hit a dangerous and “unhealthy” level. As healthcare workers looking at this thick smog, we […]
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Leaders need to stand on the side of science
AS PHYSICIANS on the frontlines of the COVID pandemic, we lived through the dangers, worries, and devastation of what COVID did to not only our patients, but also our health system. Despite not knowing if our personal protection equipment worked, we spent additional time in COVID patients’ rooms to ensure that our dying patients’ last […]