I joined Kaiser Health News in October 2013 as a senior correspondent based in Los Angeles. Before that, I was a reporter at the L.A. Times, where I covered healthcare and public health. I had been at the paper since 1999, writing about education, immigration and the Mexican border. I was a 2011 Nieman Fellow and have taught journalism at USC and Harvard.
There's little data available on in-home caregiving, which makes reporting on the issue challenging. Unlike nursing homes, in-home care suffers from little oversight. But that's why it's such an important topic to cover. Here are some essential resources and tips to get started.
Physicians and therapists traditionally haven't collaborated much when treating the same patient, but the federal healthcare law is spurring a change.
Starting next year, clinics in rural and urban areas will begin seeing millions of newly insured patients, and face higher expectations to keep costs down. Clinics are trying to improve the odds of keeping these patients healthy, but many are too ill or resistant to altering behavior.
