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Literature Review Reveals Gaps in Research on Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Ethicists should consider the potential for discrimination and inequality in access to assisted reproductive technologies, and help make these solutions available to all who need them, regardless of their socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, or other factors.
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Sweeping Senate Healthcare Legislation Heads to Markup
The HELP Committee has reached a bipartisan agreement on a crucial bill to expand primary care services and the healthcare workforce.
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Attorneys Will Scrutinize ED Preparedness for Pediatric Emergencies
Litigation will center on training, experience, and facility resources.
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An Admissions Unit Accelerates ED Flow, Helping Upper Floors Better Manage Incoming Patients
Administrators at a Wisconsin hospital created a separate unit where ED patients destined for admission could be placed while waiting for an inpatient bed upstairs. The new unit is staffed by float pool nurses who initiate care while the patients are waiting and help ensure they are directed to the right unit and the right level of care.
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Biden Administration Releases 10 Drugs for Price Negotiation
Medications represent 20% of the total Medicare Part D gross covered prescription costs.
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Initiative Raises Organ Referral Rates, Expands Donor List and Transplanted Organ Supply
An individual’s organ donation wishes should be part of their holistic care plan. Ethicists could provide education to clinicians on this point. A culture of trust between the patient community, clinical care providers, the transplant program, and the organ procurement organization is necessary. This takes years to build — and one bad case to break.
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Ethicists Are Finding Ways to Meet Needs of Rural Clinicians
For many smaller hospitals or health systems, it is simply impractical to hire an ethicist. The Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative pools the resources of smaller hospitals. Meetings target areas in which expertise may be lacking at each hospital, including clinical ethics.
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Improving Mental and Behavioral Health Among Young Patients
Three national organizations offer recommendations for managing children, adolescents, and young adults in medical facilities and in their communities.
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Feds Propose to Strengthen Mental Health, Substance Use Treatment Access
The Biden administration wants better enforcement of a law that was designed to remove administrative barriers to receiving proper insurance coverage.
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Prying Eyes Put EDs at High Risk for HIPAA Violations
Ensure policies are in place to protect the privacy of patients’ identifiable health information, train staff on those policies, implement measures to maximize compliance with the policies, and provide supplemental training if there are any incidents of non-compliance by an individual or group.