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Staff cuts are undermining federal research on how to make health care better
AHRQ has been gutted by staff cuts that leave it unable to fund research designed to improve care.
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Staff cuts are undermining federal research on how to make health care better
AHRQ has been gutted by staff cuts that leave it unable to fund research designed to improve care.
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Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News
Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...
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Trump Administration Cuts Off Health Care Research Grants Without Warning
Researchers received notices Wednesday that their awards are terminated, after months of silence from the administration.
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Termination of AHRQ grants is the latest assault on health equity and the rule of law. – Grant Witness
The agency charged with finding ways to make American health care more effective has been gutted. Last week’s terminations are just the latest blow.
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Roger D. Klein, MD JD is Chief Medical Officer of OmniSeq, a cancer genomic profiling company. He is an expert with the Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project’s FDA & Health Workin…
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White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants
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Kennedy Shows Minimal Engagement With Vast Health Portfolio
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Trump's new budget proposal is historic — in one of the worst ways possible
The proposal would double down on last summer’s “big beautiful bill” and its legacy of cutting programs that struggling Americans rely on.
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Trump is laying waste to the agency that keeps hospital patients safe | Robert B Shpiner
via US news | The Guardian — Few have heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, but it has saved tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars When I started my training in 1980, we accepted an arithmetic that would now be indefensible. Central lines, the catheters we threaded into the great veins of the critically ill, became infected, and some of those patients died. We recorded the deaths as complications. Almost no one thought of them as preventable, because no one had yet done the slow work of provi
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Trump has quietly throttled an agency devoted to the safety of American healthcare
The agency, which has been key to improving patient safety, has been shut down by the Trump administration through cuts to funding.
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Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News
Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...
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Trump Has Quietly Dismantled the Agency Devoted to US Healthcare Safety, Records Show
Records show the Trump administration has distributed less than $15 million of the $345 million Congress appropriated for AHRQ in fiscal 2026. The agency has fired all grant managers, cut staff by 75 ...
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AHRQ Grant Cancellations Escalate Fears Over Future of U.S. Health Services Research
The agency has not issued new research grants since April 2025, with 80% of staff departed, crippling its operational capacity
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Group Says Canceled AHRQ Grants Top $131M Across 28 States
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has now canceled more than 100 grants, cutting off $131.3 million in remaining committed funding, according to AcademyHealth, which represents health-ser...
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$131M in AHRQ grant cancellations by state
131M AHRQ grant cancellations affect over 100 projects nationwide, impacting patient safety, care delivery, and healthcare workforce training.
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Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News
Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...
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Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News
Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...
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Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News
Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one…
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