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Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Dashboard

Our Social Determinants of Health dashboard was developed to help understand the conditions in which the people of Puerto Rico are born, grow, work, live and age that shape their health. V2A’s SDoH Dashboard provides key factors at the municipality and neighborhood levels, including socio-demographic data, educational attainment, employment, occupation, transportation, housing, internet access, family composition and healthcare access, among others … all visualized as a Puerto Rico heat map.

Funding Challenges of Medicaid in Puerto Rico

Current Medicaid funding proposal does not resolve Puerto Rico’s program needs in the long-term. The island is at a disadvantage to meet service access which impacts health outcomes of a significant portion of our population.

Growth Opportunities for the Pharmaceutical Industry

The crisis brought upon all of us by COVID-19 has made both citizens and lawmakers demand quick action and trustworthy solutions, as well as made us all question the benefits of globalization. While producers have logically favored moving supply chains overseas to optimize their cost base, the reality is that neglecting a reliable domestic supply of certain goods has become a national security issue. Pharmaceutical products are a clear example. This report is meant to highlight Puerto Rico’s readiness to insert itself into the COVID-19 pandemic response and the pharmaceutical repatriation effort that will likely follow

The disparity in hospital quality metrics between Puerto Rico and the US

In general, Puerto Rico hospitals score lower than the national average in quality metrics, based on reports from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare database. The difference is significant in metrics related to readmission, mortality, and Emergency Department (ED) care. In this Insight we analyze several of these outcomes and explore the possible reasons behind them.

Difficult times for the hospital sector in Puerto Rico

Hospitals play a key role in the provision of health services to Puerto Rico citizens. In recent years they have been operating in a complicated environment where several industry trends have been hurting their profitability. That situation has only been aggravated by Hurricane María. Consolidation, both across the hospital sector but also vertically along the health system may help turn these trends around.

¿Cuán preparado está el sector de la salud para afrontar otro huracán como María?

Con la temporada de huracanes a la vuelta de la esquina, hay que recordar que las personas con problemas cardíacos y respiratorios, diabéticos y enfermos de Alzheimer son los más vulnerables, y que los accidentes, los suicidios y las septicemias se multiplican tras un huracán. Aparte de ver las causas del aumento de muertes por María, en este Insight nos preguntamos qué se ha hecho para mitigar el impacto de futuros huracanes.

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