Paige Twenter – Becker’s Hospital Review Walgreens is on a mission to attain provider status for its pharmacists. An abundance of research has concluded that patients crave and care improves with broader scopes of practice for pharmacists. It’s an uphill battle though as some organizations lobby against scope expansions. Walgreens, the nation’s second largest pharmacy […]
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— But how will athletes who get a boost to push the limits of achievement fare? by Rachael Robertson, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today July 18, 2024 To compete in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games that kick off next week in Paris, the world’s top athletes must follow strict anti-doping rules. But the, a
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Paige Twenter – Becker’s Clinical Leadership Nursing profession advocate RegisteredNursing.org has ranked the best nursing licensing programs by their National Council Licensure Examination-RN pass rates. Passage rates among all RN programs — associate’s, bachelor’s, direct-entry master’s — were assessed. The organization weighted each school’s pass rates by the recency of the exam between two and
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Paige Twenter – Becker’s Clinical Leadership In its most direct statement on transgender care, the Biden administration said it opposes gender-affirming surgery for minors, The New York Times reported June 28. The Times recently reported on the staff for Adm. Rachel Levine, MD, an assistant HHS secretary, urging an international transgender health organization to remove
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Jakob Emerson – Becker’s Payer Issues As insurers continue to face major financial pressures related to covering weight loss drugs, many are steering more patients toward bariatric surgery to achieve similar results. “Insurance companies are seeing that they’re getting more reliable outcomes and savings in the long run if they pay for someone to have
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— Eight decades after FDR’s decline and death, do White House physicians owe truth to the public? by Randy Dotinga, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today July 16, 2024 The patient’s blood pressure averaged 209/100 mm Hg, a level now considered to be a medical emergency. His heart was enlarged, his skin was gray due to lack
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Mackenzie Bean (Twitter) Becker’s Hospital Review KFF has released a new analysis outlining maternal mortality rates for every state and Washington, D.C. KFF used 2018-22 data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics to compile maternal deaths and mortality rates. Maternal deaths are defined as deaths of women while pregnant or within 42 days
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Erica Carbajal – Becker’s Clinical Leadership Nature walks. Dance classes. Volunteering. These are among the social activities being prescribed across at least 30 programs in the U.S. Social prescribing — or the practice of connecting people with nonclinical activities that target underlying concerns such as isolation, stress, and access to healthy foods — is a
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Giles Bruce – Becker’s Health IT Health systems are working out the kinks with virtual nursing, with some hospitals discovering the care model doesn’t work for all its hoped-for uses, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, for instance, discovered that having in-person nurses move the virtual nursing stations around cut into the time savings
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— It’s inevitable (and OK!) by Amy Vertrees, MD May 25, 2024 It’s a simple idea, but we don’t think about it. Everyone will leave their job, including us. This thought occurred to me as our office was undergoing a painful turnover. I started my private practice in 2020, expecting it to be a small,
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