Health Insurance and Costs

PHOTO: BARBARA GAUNTT/CLARION LEDGER

'Promotoras' a lifeline for the undocumented, sick and scared through COVID

This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
Newark has suffered the most COVID-19 deaths and cases in New Jersey.

Crossroads of a plague

The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform
Certified nurse midwife Annie Leone talks with her patient, Melissa Woodfin. Prenatal care visits with the midwives at Holy Fami

Part 3: Filling the gap

Much of rural Texas is a maternity care desert with few doctors to deliver babies. In some other states, licensed midwives fill in to handle uncomplicated births. But roadblocks limit their practice here.

Women's and Maternal Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics
Nicole Canedo consulta la página de su Cuenta de Reembolso Médico (MRA, por sus siglas en inglés) emitida por la ciudad

Con un fondo de reembolso médico no ejercido de $409 millones, próximas reformas para su mejor aplicación

This story was produced by Ida Mojadad, a participant in the 2019 Data Fellowship, who is investigating the efficacy of the health access program Healthy SF in San Francisco.

Her other stories include:
Workers may get cash payout from medical reimbursement accounts
Millions left sitting in medi

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics