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Private Equity and Wheelchair Services: How to Address a National Crisis

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Elyse Horvath on Flickr The wheelchair and durable medical equipment industry has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, largely due to the growing influence of private equity ownership. Several private equitybacked durable medical equipment companies have also faced legal consequences for fraudulent practices.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed. She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters.

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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

In Massachusetts alone, as the new policy institute report details, thousands of medically stable individuals remain trapped in hospitals, nursing homes, and psychiatric institutions not because they require ongoing medical care but because they lack a legal guardian authorized to make decisions about their discharge and future care.

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Is Your Health Insurer Breaking the Law?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AntonioGuillem on istock.com Despite hundreds of state laws meant to protect health insurance consumers—patients, in other words—from denials of legitimate claims for coverage, health insurers are routinely flouting these laws and illegally denying coverage in even life-threatening situations.

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Driving Without a Safety Net: How Nonprofits Are Helping People Recover from Car Accidents

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

In the United States alone, approximately 1 in 8 drivers are uninsured, leaving many accident victims without the resources needed for medical care, vehicle repairs, or legal support. Many find themselves in deep debt or forced to forgo necessary medical treatments. This is where nonprofits step in to provide crucial assistance.

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Study: Nonprofits Hospitals Worth 10X of Tax Foregone

The NonProfit Times

Some hospitals might be exempt due to their educational or religious nature, rather than their charitable nature. Three tax provisions that provide a federal exemption for nonprofit hospitals were analyzed: * Federal corporate income tax exemption; * Tax-exempt bond financing; and, * Federal unemployment tax exemption.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. 3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. It is by no accident that the US medical system has ended up where it is. Neuroscientists are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence to advance their work.