Articles Tagged With: population
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Should Family Planning Clinics Volunteer to Vaccinate Patients?
One of the biggest challenges this spring will be to find enough trained medical staff and ambulatory sites to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people within a six- to seven-month time frame. Family planning centers might be lower on the priority list for vaccination because they serve a younger population.
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CDC Advisors Draw Fire for COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations
A CDC advisory panel has designated frontline essential workers and those age 75 years and older as the next priority groups to receive COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. The decision came amid considerable criticism and controversy at an emergency meeting on Dec. 20, 2020, with the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voting to continue the rationing process while vaccine stocks are insufficient.
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Case Management Leaders Should Identify Sustainable Solutions
Hospital case management leaders have found their departments evolving in recent years, often to include practices and models that focus on population health goals. As care coordinators and case managers move toward transitions that incorporate these goals, one challenge is sustainability. New research provides a model for sustaining a collaborative practice model that advances population health.
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The Global COVID-19 Pandemic Was Predicted and Ignored
The human population explosion, international travel and migration, urbanization, and environmental exploitation set the stage for pandemics, and the trend likely will continue and intensify.
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Quality management’s role evolves as hospitals shift to population health
The U.S. health system’s new transition to a population health model has resulted in healthcare systems and payers adjusting to new kinds of contracts and payment reform. Fee-for-service is being phased out and replaced with the concept of providing quality care for a population as cost-effectively as possible.