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The Triple Threat Facing Nursing Homes—And How to Overcome It

NonProfit Quarterly

Private equity firms pioneered aggressive strategies, using related entitiesseparate but affiliated companiesto extract wealth through inflated service fees and other nontransparent transactions ( such as converting nonprofit-owned property into leased property and charging inflated lease rates to an affiliated company). trillion (17.6

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The Challenges of Seeking Healthcare as a Neurodivergent Person

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on iStock As much as 20 percent of the US population is neurodivergent, a concept that autistic disability rights advocates first developed to describe neurological diversity and move away from binary distinctions between “ normal ” and “abnormal” cognition.

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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 7 The lack of robust data systems to track and manage the allocation and utilization of funds across healthcare centers led to inefficiencies and poor accountability.

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How Private Equity Is Swallowing Up Health Care—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

Private equity—that is, investor groups that operate outside of the stock market, thus being largely shielded from public investor scrutiny—plays a leading role. trillion is spent on healthcare (18.3 trillion is spent on healthcare (18.3 These purchases can have devastating impacts on the quality of healthcare.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

This proactive, data-driven approach can significantly improve the quality of life for elderly individuals and reduce the burden on healthcare systems. Neurodivergent children often struggle with social interactions, communication, and emotional regulation, hindering their learning and development.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “No Soul to Sell” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Over the last year, she had to visit the emergency room at the local hospital three times when she and members of her family developed severe respiratory symptoms. Yet, in our siloed and disease focused healthcare systems, the root causes for poor health and disparities go largely ignored. Elisa isn’t alone.

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