Advocating for health merges passion with purpose, empowering you to make lasting changes in your community. As you leverage your enthusiasm for wellness, you can inspire, educate, and support others in their health journeys. This Nursing Academy guide outlines several impactful ways to transform your passion for health into effective advocacy. Numerous paths exist to […]
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Jakob Emerson – Becker’s Hospital Review Weight loss drugs were one of the most talked about topics at AHIP’s June 2024 conference in Las Vegas, especially with the Amazon Pharmacy team. In March, Eli Lilly tapped Amazon Pharmacy as a partner to deliver select medications, including weight loss drugs, directly to consumers’ homes. Through the
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Mariah Taylor (Email) – Becker’s Hospital Review A recent Indeed survey suggests that many workers do not intend to leave healthcare entirely, but rather break ties from individual employers due to dissatisfaction with the job, a recent Indeed survey suggests. The survey also cites a gap in perception between what the workers find important and
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by Elizabeth Short, Staff Writer, MedPage Today June 19, 2024 Children with asthma were substantially less likely to see an outpatient specialist if they had Medicaid rather than private health insurance, a cross-sectional study revealed. In an analysis of child-year observations in the Massachusetts All Payer Claims Database from 2014 to 2020, specialty care use
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By Melissa Schiffman, MD June 6, 2024, Original article Featured in Op-Med, a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Recently, I said a single word that made me feel instantly lighter, freer, more expansive. This one word liberated a huge block of time and awakened vast possibilities of things I could accomplish. The
Alan Condon – Becker’s Clinical Leadership Minneapolis-based Allina Health is tackling the nursing shortage through various long-term initiatives, including improved orientation programs, developing initiatives for nurse leadership and establishing an RN residency program. The health system paused its plan to create a nurse residency program shortly after the pandemic hit, but kicked off an interim
Mariah Taylor (Email) Bon Secours Hampton Roads (Va.) market has embraced flexible nursing with autonomous scheduling and float shifts between hospitals for years. The system’s prioritization of flexibility has helped keep nurses in the system and reduced the need for agency nurses. ACE Bon Secours Hampton Roads has built a strong pipeline of new nurses
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— New York nonprofit is one of only a few nationally that bar all aggressive collection activities by Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News May 19, 2024 ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jolynn Mungenast spends her days looking for ways to help people pay their hospital bills. Working out of a warehouse-like building in a scruffy corner
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— Findings also highlight the difficulty of managing chronic pain by Associated Press June 18, 2024 A new study documents lost opportunities to treat drug overdose survivors covered by the Medicare program — and illustrates the difficulty of managing chronic pain. Overdose survivors “should be at the front of the line for the full range
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Madeline Ashley – Becker’s Hospital Review As private equity expands across the healthcare industry and proper patient care is brought into question, Don Berwick, MD, a Harvard Medical School health policy lecturer in Boston and former CMS administrator during the Obama administration, called for an extended Hippocratic Oath for all who work in healthcare. During
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