{"id":8569,"date":"2023-09-26T20:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T20:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2023-11-06T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:34:10","slug":"dr-tracy-mroz-uw-chws-researcher-testifies-at-us-senate-finance-committee-healthcare-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2023\/09\/26\/dr-tracy-mroz-uw-chws-researcher-testifies-at-us-senate-finance-committee-healthcare-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Tracy Mroz, UW CHWS researcher, testifies at US Senate Finance Committee healthcare hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/home-health-payment-cuts-workforce-shortages-healthcare-senate-finance-committee\/694136\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8571\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-1457752816-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-1457752816-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-1457752816-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-1457752816-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-1457752816-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-1457752816.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Among witnesses and lawmakers describing home health access challenges to the US Senate Finance Committee, Dr. Tracy Mroz, UW CHWS researcher, described how access is more nuanced for rural patients. \u201cThe number of agencies serving a community represents supply, which is a necessary but not sufficient measure of access to care,\u201d she said. \u201cRural agencies may refuse referrals for new admissions when they don\u2019t have adequate capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/home-health-payment-cuts-workforce-shortages-healthcare-senate-finance-committee\/694136\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finance.senate.gov\/hearings\/aging-in-place-the-vital-role-of-home-health-in-access-to-care\">Congressional testimony<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among witnesses and lawmakers describing home health access challenges to the US Senate Finance Committee, Dr. Tracy Mroz, UW CHWS researcher, described how access is more nuanced for rural patients. \u201cThe number of agencies serving a community represents supply, which is a necessary but not sufficient measure of access to care,\u201d she said. \u201cRural agencies [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}