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Health System Improves Patient Care and Transitions Through Outreach
Case managers can improve patient transitions when health systems focus on population health and partner with community-based organizations, including groups that address food insecurity.
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Hospitals Can Promote Healthy Eating in Food Deserts
As one medical center shows, it is possible for health systems and healthcare professionals, including case managers, to reduce food insecurity in their communities through a variety of programs. The goal could be to bring more healthy food and fresh fruits and vegetables to people who live in food deserts where such produce is hard to obtain.
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Chronic Disease Program Helps Rural Patients Who Can Help Themselves
A chronic disease self-management program has proven to work well for a rural population, both before and since the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers found a diabetes self-management program’s completion rate was nearly 75%. The chronic disease self-management program’s rate was 79.4%.
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Partner with Colleges, Nursing Programs to Address Staffing Shortages
It is no secret nursing shortages are causing considerable anxiety and trouble for hospitals and health systems nationwide. As expected, shortages can negatively affect patient outcomes. Some hospitals are even covering full tuition for nursing students to potentially combat the shortage and provide undisrupted healthcare services to their patients.
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Report: Patients Sicker Now Than Before the COVID-19 Pandemic
Delayed care also driving longer lengths of stay, price increases for labor and supplies.
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Text Messages Boosted Pediatric Flu Vaccination Rates
Personalized, interactive, educational reminders led parents to bring children for the second shot faster and at a higher rate.
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Biden Signs Inflation Reduction Act
Administration, industry tout healthcare provisions included in the sweeping legislative package.
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Ethics Plays Important Role in Response to Abortion Ruling
As healthcare professionals process the clinical, legal, and even personal implications of the recent Supreme Court decision to allow states to restrict abortion access or ban it entirely, ethicists play an important role.
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Ethics Consults During Pandemic Inform Preparation for Future Crises
Lessons learned on ethics consults during the COVID-19 pandemic carry important implications for future disasters.
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Updated Guidance Provides Sense of Urgency to Improve Clinical Trial Diversity
Organizations must invest in research infrastructure to support investigators in enrolling and retaining diverse study populations.