It might seem counterintuitive to run a business whose clients are not long for this world.
But hospices solve this obstacle in all kinds of ways, including by signing up patients who aren't actually dying...
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Rarely does a news report result in real change - cms.gov/files/document Congratulations - and I hope this starts a clean-up and quality improvement for hospice!
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It might seem counterintuitive to run a business whose clients are not long for this world.
But hospices solve this obstacle in all kinds of ways, including by signing up patients who aren't actually dying...
My investigation @ProPublica + @NewYorker newyorker.com/magazine/2022/
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Seeing this in person made my heart sing its bitty little tune all over again today.
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CMS is overhauling its entire inspection process for hospices. Inspectors will survey patients from all three levels of care. And consider press reports in their evaluations.
The changes go into effect immediately.
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“Failure to listen to women, particularly Black and brown women, when they say they’re experiencing pain can have grave consequences — from serious complications to maternal death to stillbirths,” tells
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In total, we tested 17 pills – things sold as hydrocodone, oxycodone, Adderall - and found 71% tested pos. for fentanyl or meth.
TO BE CLEAR, these are laced pills being sold *in pharmacies* in Mexico, including tourist cities like Cabo.
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Applications are open for ProPublica’s new editor training program, a yearlong initiative aimed at expanding and diversifying the pipeline of investigative news editors.
Applicants can join @TaliaBuford & @gingerthomp1 at a Feb. 7 webinar to learn more: propub.li/3YbHIOp
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for ’s “home improvement” column I wrote about the couch that dissolved my sense of self and turned me into a materialist
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I wrote about Annie Ernaux's "The Super 8 Years" for . Grateful to Clint Krute and for great edits and getting me to "binge" Ernaux's writing, which was really more like a juice cleanse for the brain (full of deceptive clarity and absolutely hazardous)
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- The first film from the Nobel Prize-winning author engages Annie Ernaux’s career-long fascination with photography to tell the story of a disintegrating marriage.
@annashechtman reviews THE SUPER 8 YEARS: filmcomment.com/blog/the-way-w
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CMS is overhauling its entire inspection process for hospices. Inspectors will survey patients from all three levels of care. And consider press reports in their evaluations.
The changes go into effect immediately.
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I reviewed 20 arrest warrants for 19 Cop City activists charged with domestic terrorism.
0 are accused of seriously injuring anyone
9 are based on only misdemeanor trespassing
The docs:
documentcloud.org/documents/2358
The story:
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“Yet the desire for better COVID protections is not concentrated among the well-heeled, as these accounts have misleadingly suggested.” (1/3)
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Breathtaking review by on Andrea Dworkin as writer, activist, extremist, and "gender escapee":
nybooks.com/online/2023/01
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This story first came to light through the dogged reporting of reporting fellow (and Army veteran) .
We need more veterans in newsrooms, and more coverage of veterans and military affairs.
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A major study finds that having COVID-19 makes you much likelier to suffer over twenty different heart conditions, including heart failure and strokes.
“It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, diabetic or not, obese or not, if you smoked, or didn’t.”
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Calls for reform to hospice care are coming from both private and public sectors. Prof explains, "What they’re saying here is that they want to fix the problem and offering specific recommendations for how to do so. It’s unusual and impressive."
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Pressure Mounts for Hospice Reform — “The New Yorker-ProPublica investigation shook the industry to its foundation.” Impact by
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New: The country's largest end-of-life care trade groups have sent regulators an “unusual and impressive” list of policy recommendations to stop hospice fraud and profiteering.
propublica.org/article/pressu
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California's Sierra Nevada range 80 days ago versus today.
These mountains likely currently hold the biggest snowpack on the planet.
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most mainstream coverage of the forest fight casts it as some kind of retrograde "tree-huggers vs the planning dept" when actually it's the frontline of this century's struggle—entire ecosystems vs corporatized, militarized, nationalized police
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Late to it but this expose by on the for-profit hospice industry is astounding—jaw-dropping levels of grift and cruelty, often without consequence. Read the whole thing: bit.ly/3FSo69I
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For every woman dismissed in the ER, told the pain was in her head, crying during the "just a little pressure" of IUD insertion, we see you.
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"Whom exactly does the city lawyer represent? The straightforward answer is the city, of course. But the issue gets more complicated if you consider whether New York is its citizens or its employees."
New for +
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A public “school” for children with disabilities that facilitates — in a single year — the arrest of *HALF* of its student body (some children as young as 9) reveals the spectacular depth of our nation’s obsession with policing and punishment.
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The easiest way to understand the hospice boom is to see it for yourself.
In Arizona, Nevada and Texas, the growth since 2018 now accounts for around half of all hospices in each state.
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Congress and trade groups are calling for reforms, in the wake of a - investigation into hospice fraud.
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1/ What started as a personal journey in 2019 looking into the deaths of my family, turned into a deep dive into the Zero Units—secretive, CIA-backed Afghan special forces that left a trail of loss and destruction across eastern Afghanistan.
propublica.org/article/afghan
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I wrote about how POW/MIA mythmaking has and continues to warp American politics
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The notion of suicide by cop was conceived by a cop-turned-psychologist in the early 80s, and it was quickly reified by scholars of law and order. Today, experts claim that between 10% and 46% of all police killings are in fact suicides.
My piece in next month's print issue:
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If a person is armed, cops shoot. If a person acts strange, cops shoot. These are the bulk of deaths researchers describe as “suicides by cop,” as if police killings were no more avoidable than natural law.
bit.ly/3Wfeht2
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"One never hears a car coming in Hazzard. The senses are more finely tuned than that."
GOAT in
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A book about reading and writing, friendship, the life of the mind, ancestors, and all the ways a free woman's life might look. Absolutely glorious. Out in May.
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In the new , a Letter from Iowa by , who follows an animal-rights activist trying and failing to go to prison for the cause and considers the problem of how to make people care
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TODAY 📻: #TUESDAY
~ on the looming government shutdown
~ and investigation into hospice care with
~, author of "Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America"
~'s on the #GoldenGlobes
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This interview with the brilliant on the capture of academia by big tech, conducted by + , is a must-read
networkcultures.org/wp-content/upl
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One more plug for the high-concept inside goofball film-masquerading-as-a-music video we worked so hard to create!! a delightful weekend watch I promise. features live chickens, a cartoon meerkat, and my acting debut
youtu.be/Mg8O9qUTT1k
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Read some great books this year and it was a pure joy to get to riff on a few of them for Year In Reading
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I probably read more than I read the news. (And the reviews are always just the right length!) This is so sad.
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This story is *astounding*
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It might seem counterintuitive to run a business whose clients are not long for this world.
But hospices solve this obstacle in all kinds of ways, including by signing up patients who aren't actually dying...
My investigation @ProPublica + @NewYorker newyorker.com/magazine/2022/
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