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News & Impacts
NYS communities create a crisis resilience playbook, with Cornell help
Residents of Southside, a historically Black community that lies along Six Mile Creek in Ithaca, now live in an area recently recategorized as a “special hazard flood zone” by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“When we get weeks of rain, people’s basements are flooding. If the creek overflows, it floods,” said Chavon Bunch, executive director of Southside Community Center, a neighborhood institution. “Long term, climate change is only getting worse.
Cayuga Health Launches the Center for Health Equity Transformation and Health Equity Dashboard
Cayuga Health is proud to announce the upcoming launch of its Center for Health Equity Transformation on October 1, 2024. The health system is on a mission to improve health equity in all of the communities it serves in the Southern Tier of New York State. The Center will be a virtual hub for health equity strategies, initiatives, and resources, bringing together staff across the health system alongside patients, community partners, and academic centers.
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Medicaid could bolster – or reshape – US homeless policy
Medicaid and health systems are playing a growing role in providing housing and other services to people experiencing homelessness, investments that could bolster – or eventually overtake – existing governance structures, new Cornell research finds.
As of August 2023, nearly one-third of states had Medicaid waivers targeting homelessness, and more than half of the 100 largest health systems had homeless mitigation programs, according to the research – the first to document the scope of their involvement in solutions to homelessness…