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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH
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Assoc Prof, Dept. Health Services Policy & Management, University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health; Co-Director, USC Rural Health Research Cntr; @PublicHealthUMN; Postdoc @YaleSPH
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 6d
✨ An honor to serve on the planning committee for this upcoming #NASEM workshop: Diagnostic Excellence in Rural Areas!

📅 October 14 | Washington, D.C. (Hybrid available!)

Register here: ow.ly/tFIB50WIQqP

@health.nationalacademies.org
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 6d
✨ An honor to serve on the planning committee for this upcoming #NASEM workshop: Diagnostic Excellence in Rural Areas!

📅 October 14 | Washington, D.C. (Hybrid available!)

Register here: ow.ly/tFIB50WIQqP

@health.nationalacademies.org
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 7d
New Research Alert 🚨
Our national study of 349,682 pregnancies across 75 U.S. health systems reveals how prenatal care timing and frequency varied by COVID-19 exposure and telehealth use. dx.doi.org/10.1111/jrh....
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 15d
Severe Morning Sickness Tied to Worse Mental Health www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregna...
Severe Morning Sickness Tied to Worse Mental Health
Even mild hyperemesis gravidarum may carry mental health risks
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Jun 27
Senate Reconciliation Bill Could Add Over $4 Trillion to Debt-2025-06-27 www.crfb.org/blogs/senate...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Jun 8
@USC Health Services Policy and Management is here at the #AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting #ARM2025 in Minneapolis! Come visit us!

Stop by our booth in the exhibit hall to meet our amazing colleague, grab some materials, and learn about our faculty’s work in #healthservicesresearch!
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · May 24
Grateful for all my colleagues, mentors, and/or students @uofscstudents.bsky.social #USCRHRC @umn-idim.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social

Rural health research takes a village, and I’m grateful to be part of this supportive, innovative, & collaborative community!
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · May 24
From my 1st NRHA in 2011, to presenting annually since, receiving the 2017 outstanding student award & the 2025 researcher of the year award. Thanks @ruralhealth.bsky.social for nurturing my rural health journey!
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Apr 17
📢 We need your insights!
Are you involved in #rural #health #policy or #Medicaid perinatal payment models?

#USCRHRC is conducting a national study on state variations in Medicaid perinatal bundled payments.

📝 Take the survey here: tinyurl.com/9vyjfnxf

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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Apr 8
📢 New Publication Alert!
We developed a #Racial #Discrimination #Index using #socialmedia data + #AI - it's strongly linked to Black premature deaths. More detail here: @curisatucker.bsky.social #HealthDisparity @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social l @uscresearch.bsky.social
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Apr 1
🎉 Here’s a wrap on 1st Rural Auricular Point Acupressure (#APA) Educator training workshop @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social #USCRHRC! Excited to launch our #NIH-funded #ClinicalTrial in Sept 2025, partnering with #SCORH #SCCHWA #SCPHCA @cupress.bsky.social More here: shorturl.at/9jO9f #ruralhealthcare
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National Rural Health Association @ruralhealth.bsky.social · Mar 21
NRHA is now accepting submissions for our 2025 compendium of rural oral health initiatives and best practices through March 31. Learn more and act soon: fs16.formsite.com/MEAGHAN/pvmi... #ruralhealth
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National Rural Health Association @ruralhealth.bsky.social · Mar 19
Join NRHA and hundreds of rural health leaders for NRHA’s Annual Rural Health Conference and associated events May 20-23 in Atlanta. Check out the updated agenda with over 80 innovative, practical, and cost-saving sessions and much more: www.ruralhealth.us/events/sched... #ruralhealth
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Mar 19
🚨Call 4 Papers!🚨

Excited to co-edit this #Hybrid #Pregnancy #Care collection #BMCPregnancyChildbirth!✨https://go.sn.pub/hpc

We welcome submissions on novel perinatal care models.

#MaternalHealth #telehealth @doctorswithoutborders.org
@ruralhealth.bsky.social #Policy
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National Rural Health Association @ruralhealth.bsky.social · Mar 14
Proposed federal funding cuts could have a drastic impact in rural areas, with NRHA Chief Policy Officer Carrie Cochran-McClain saying that already strapped rural clinics will feel these proposed cuts deeply. Read more: www.marketplace.org/2025/03/10/f... #ruralhealth
Federal funding cuts could hurt already fragile rural health care - Marketplace
Rural hospitals and clinics face potential closures, leaving patients with longer travel times, fewer options and more uncertainty.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Mar 10
Virtual hospitals, like Saudi Arabia's Seha Virtual Hospital, are revolutionizing healthcare by providing remote team-based care to patients in #underserved areas. Could this be the future of #rural healthcare in the US? #Telemedicine #RuralHealth www.ft.com/content/1041...
‘Virtual hospitals’ deliver home treatment to remote patients
Digital systems are helping to cut the need for physical attendance at medical centres
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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · Mar 9
Since the hospital supply issue is now hitting the lay press, Sam the rural health advoCATe makes one additional point: we can decrease hospital bed use by increasing the supply of and access to primary care physicians.
#PowerOfRuralCats
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Health Care Staffing Shortages and Potential National Hospital Bed Shortage
This cross-sectional study assesses several possible US hospital bed occupancy scenarios arising from an aging US population over the next decade, based on varying hospitalization rates and staffed ho...
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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · Jan 11
Shared with a sigh by Sam the rural health advoCATe. #PowerOfRuralCats
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Jan 11
Rural-Urban Disparities in Mobile Health Application Ownership and Utilization Among Cancer Survivors journals.lww.com/lww-medicalc...
Rural-Urban Disparities in Mobile Health Application... : Medical Care
ion. In this study, we explore the characteristics of cancer survivors who own and use mHealth apps and examine rural-urban disparities in mHealth app ownership and utilization among cancer survivors....
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Jan 4
#OBClosure

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USC Verdugo Hills
Hospital to close maternity ward
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Jan 3
Smaller Town Hospitals Having Trouble Maintaining Labor And Delivery Services. Another #rural #OBClosure sheridanmedia.com/news/185526/...
Smaller Town Hospitals Having Trouble Maintaining Labor And Delivery Services
What’s being labeled as a maternity desert, just got a little bit bigger in southwest Wyoming. As of December 30th 2024, the hospital in Evanston discontinued its labor and delivery services, makin...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Jan 3
Hospital will pay fine for halting L&D services “without CON approval”!!! The fine will fund grants for #MaternalHealth. A community forum will guide fund use. “Hospitals must support their communities,” said OHS Commissioner Gifford. #OBClosure www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/ct-o...
CT OHS fines Johnson Memorial Hospital $153.5K for terminating labor, delivery services
Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs will pay a $153,500 fine to the state for terminating labor and delivery services without a Certificate of Need (CON) approval, a state agency announced T...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Jan 1
Mercy Health West closed labor and delivery unit on 12/19/2024, expectant mothers advised to seek alternatives
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Mercy Health West to close labor and delivery unit, patients advised to seek alternatives
Effective tomorrow at noon, Mercy Health will be closing their labor and delivery unit.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Dec 31
Prolonged labor ⬆️ complication risks, endanger mom and baby. These risks are exacerbated by systemic challenges in accessing quality #maternity care, particularly as obstetric unit closures further strain hospital capacity & care availability. @people @ruralhealth
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Newborn Allegedly Dies After Mother's Induction Is Delayed for 60 Hours Due to 'Hospital Capacity,' According to Lawsuit
Chelsea Wooton alleges that she had to wait 60 hours to be induced while the hospital prioritized other emergencies, which ultimately led to the death of her newborn.
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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · Dec 30
Interesting work, notes Sam the rural health advoCATe. But one aspect is missing: rurality. Rural motor vehicle crash mortality, for example, is roughly twice that of urban kids, across groups. (Probst, Zhand et al Health Affairs 2019). #PowerOfRuralCats

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Pediatric Firearm and Motor Vehicle Deaths
This cross-sectional study examines trends in firearm and motor vehicle pediatric death among US youths by age, sex, race, and ethnicity.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Dec 31
“when a state combines an unusually high birth rate, fearful immigrants, very limited access to care, safe havens no one knows about, and an abysmal record of supporting reproductive care and women's health…” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · Dec 31
Hospital consolidation resulted in another labor and delivery unit closure in FL. www.wpbf.com/article/flor...
Martin County loses its only hospital labor and delivery unit
Two Cleveland Clinic locations on the Treasure Coast plan to consolidate some of their women’s health services in Martin and St. Lucie counties.
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