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Telling It Like It Is: Too Many HCWs Are Unhealthy
With more than 35 years of experience in employee health, wellness coaching, and lifestyle medicine, Leticia Nichols, NP-C, is not afraid to share a few inconvenient truths about poor diets and disease, which the healthcare system is primarily designed to treat rather than prevent.
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Threat of Reinfection Includes Long COVID
Accumulating research suggests reinfections with SARS-CoV-2 increase the likelihood of developing long COVID, the horrific post-acute syndrome with indefinite duration and a panoply of neurological, autoimmune, and physical conditions. Moreover, the risk of developing long COVID incrementally increases with each reinfection, according to a study that found this cumulative effect continues in up to three reinfections.
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Return to Light Duty Is Key to Full-Time Work
Healthcare workers’ physical injuries account for almost 50% of all injuries reported nationally. The proverbial insult that follows is that the longer they miss work, the less likely they are to return at all. At six months, there is less than a 50% chance they will return. The key justification for returning injured employees to light duty is that it is significantly associated with a return to full-time work and can positively re-engage workers.
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Wounded Healers: Long COVID Community Helps Its Own
Despite her limitations, Karyn Bishof, MS, founded the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project and began distributing information to others. Hospital Employee Heath reached out to Bishof for an interview.
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CDC Seeks Clarity on Masks, Respirators
An advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently completed draft isolation guidelines for respiratory patients, but got a thumbs down and a loaded question for their trouble: “Should N95 respirators be recommended for all pathogens that spread by the air?”
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Unmet Social Needs May Be Reason for ED Visit
Many unmet social needs are the true underlying reason for ED visits, although they often go unrecognized at the time of presentation.
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Ethicists Are Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Clinicians have begun to focus more attention on identifying and addressing patients’ social determinants of health. Ethicists are doing the same during consults.
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Case Managers, Others Can Monitor Utilization Patterns Through EHRs
Research into a novel cancer survivorship database to describe healthcare utilization patterns highlights how this information can be used to coordinate care after treatment — and how difficult it is to obtain.
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Blood Pressure Management with Devices Improved Outcomes During the Pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted case management, care coordination, transitions, and clinical monitoring of patients with chronic illness, the entire health industry switched to remote monitoring, virtual clinic visits, and virtual case management whenever feasible. A new study revealed that using self-measured blood pressure monitoring and telehealth were among the top ways healthcare professionals adapted to the pandemic’s forced limits on in-person clinic visits.
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Case Management Program Highlights Challenges of Working with High-Need Populations
Care coordinators and case managers know their work makes a positive difference in patients’ lives, but proving this is challenging. For example, the Camden Coalition Care Management Program demonstrated some positive outcomes related to high-cost, high-need patients, including increasing patients’ visits with providers within two weeks after their hospitalizations. However, it did not change their rate of readmissions.