AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

For more than a year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has supported SMAs with in-house Medicaid expertise to identify unwinding issues and develop solutions to address them. The top four concerns that SMAs have shared are outreach and engagement, staffing shortages, returned mail, and reporting capabilities.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” Increase health and wellbeing : Addressing problem properties can help reduce crime and improve personal and public health.

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GovLoop

JUNE 11, 2024

Environmental Where do environmental hazards put public health at risk? Still, public policies around zoning, environmental cleanup and other community planning issues often lead to increased risks in communities where constituents lack a say in policy decisions. Here are some examples of what can be done in key policy areas.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

As the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) begins to wind down, starting April 1, 2023, state Medicaid agencies (SMAs) will have one year to “unwind” temporary COVID-era changes and return to pre-pandemic ways of working. See more Health and Human Services Cloud Resources here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

One of the many initiatives in the cloud includes revamping queue systems at local hospitals and public health centers to shorten waiting times. Rajagopal shared how ST Engineering migrated more than 1,000 workloads into the cloud, enabled by in-house cloud practitioners.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the last few years, there’s been an understandable reassignment of many key communication staff to booster public health campaigns, with few able to prioritize the essential task of updating (now painfully old) policy. More on the trends changing community engagement here. Make use of available funding.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It will likely be more efficient for communities to pursue these activities under that Rule’s “public health and negative economic impacts” eligible use category, rather than trying to pursue them under the CDBG-eligible projects category. What are the expenditure limits?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

If we’re going to have societal impact,” he said, “we have to be engaged in the communities and help them achieve their desires and dreams.” providing high quality people spaces within a hospital complex becomes very difficult (" Penn’s new hospital belatedly recognizes pedestrian space is a public health issue ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

DC isn't very big on public restrooms, although some federal parks have them (" Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? ," Bloomberg). This is common for many cities--no public restrooms. Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not.

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The City Fix

APRIL 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a disruptive new normal for everyone through shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines. But for the billions of urban poor, these guidelines aren’t just burdensome; they’re essentially impossible. Social distancing is a critically important response. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

This year’s cohort brought forward innovative ideas that will improve access to care, provide actionable health equity data, expand access to medical transport, and help people without a home reach housing and health goals. Chan School of Public Health , Mass General Brigham , Philips , Rock Health , and ScaleHealth.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Fortunately this is an infrequent occurrence.

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zencity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Local government officials have just encountered one of the biggest public health emergencies of their careers. We can’t wait to head to these cities to discuss how to tackle current and future issues facing local leaders, and to understand how community engagement is evolving. See you there!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Elizabeths I suggested this as part of a three part series on an innovative strategy for public health and wellness programming as part of building a new hospital. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. And my park is 110.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

s newest hospital ," Washington Post ), in a manner that combined acute care, wellness programming including addressing chronic conditions, and public health with a hospital providing acute care at the center. 2018) -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 25, 2024

Ideally, the federal government could step in as a backstop, but this is very difficult considering Republican opposition to public support of health care (" The Congressional Republican Agenda: Repealing the Affordable Care Act and Slashing Medicaid ," White House). Scenario planning and monitoring.

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