HJAR May/Jun 2022

DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Desk ................................................................................................. 8 Healthcare Briefs ................................................................................... 35 Hospital Rounds ...................................................................................... 61 Ad Index ....................................................................................................... 66 FEATURES Stop The Bleeding: Is It Time to Nix the Medicare Hospital Wage Index? . ..................... 9 Bo Ryall President & CEO Arkansas Hospital Association Can We Take a Minute to Talk about Grief? . ........................ 16 Greg Adams, LCSW, ACSW, FT Program Coordinator Center for Good Mourning and Staff Bereavement Support, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Drug Addiction: Part II . ................ 22 Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience Markus Heilig, James MacKillop, Diana Martinez, Jürgen Rehm, Lorenzo Leggio, and Louk J. M. J. Vanderschuren CORRESPONDENTS Policy ............................................................................................................ 40 Secretary’s Corner ................................................................................. 42 Medicaid ..................................................................................................... 44 Children’s Health .................................................................................. 46 Urology ......................................................................................................... 48 Oral Health ................................................................................................ 50 Oncology ..................................................................................................... 52 Cardiology .................................................................................................. 54 Bariatric ....................................................................................................... 56 Pain Medicine .......................................................................................... 58 May / June 2022 I Vol. 9, No. 3 Contents 16 22