Safety Net Primary Care Capabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Importance: Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide care to 30 million patients in the US and have shown better outcomes and processes than other practice types. Little is known about how the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to FQHC capabilities compared with other practices.

Objective: To compare postpandemic operational characteristics and capabilities of FQHCs with non-FQHC safety net practices and non-FQHC, non-safety net practices.

Barriers to quality healthcare among transgender and gender nonconforming adults.

Objective: To determine the barriers transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) adults face when accessing or receiving healthcare in the United States.

Data Sources And Study Setting: Primary data were collected between September 2022 and March 2023 from a purposive sample of TGNC adults (N = 116 participants) using an online survey with a series of open-ended and closed-ended questions.

Study Design: Thematic analysis was employed to extract and analyze participants' responses to an open-ended question about challenges they experienced when accessing or receiving healthcare.

Development of Neighborhood Trajectories Employing Historic Redlining and the Area Deprivation Index.

The role of historic residential redlining on health inequities is intertwined with policy changes made before and after the 1930s that influence current neighborhood characteristics and shape ongoing structural racism in the United States (U.S.).

Measuring Local-Area Racial Segregation for Medicare Hospital Admissions.

Importance: Considerable racial segregation exists in US hospitals that cannot be explained by where patients live. Approaches to measuring such segregation are limited.

Objective: To measure how and where sorting of older Black patients to different hospitals occurs within the same health care market.