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Newsletter, January 2023

Patient Safety Movement

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. Adverse drug events accounted for 39.0%

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CalAIM: Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care for Housing and Homelessness Supports

NASHP

Individuals at risk for institutionalization who are eligible for long-term care services who, in the absence of services and supports, would otherwise require care for 90 consecutive days or more in an inpatient nursing facility. Nursing Home Residents Transitioning to the Community. Public hospital systems.

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Newsletter, November 2022

Patient Safety Movement

And it’s largely preventable—if not the disease itself (in the case of Type 2 diabetes) then at least the most severe outcomes. The patient is the most important member of their own healthcare team, as diabetes treatment involves a lot of self-care and preventative lifestyle choices.

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Federal Speech Rulings May Embolden Health Care Workers to Call Out Safety Issues

KHN

The court’s decision could mean that hospitals and other employers will need to revise their policies barring workers from talking to the news media and posting on social media. It also affirmed the board’s finding that the hospital’s media policy barring contact between employees and the media was illegal.

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Federal Speech Rulings May Embolden Health Care Workers to Call Out Safety Issues

KHN

The court’s decision could mean that hospitals and other employers will need to revise their policies barring workers from talking to the news media and posting on social media. It also affirmed the board’s finding that the hospital’s media policy barring contact between employees and the media was illegal.

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FCC Awards Additional $42.7M in Round 2 of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

HIT Consultant

– Klickitat County Public Hospital in Goldendale, Washington, was awarded $711,739 for the purchase of tablets, webcams, and remote monitoring kits to enhance its telemedicine offerings as the only health care provider in a sparsely populated area. – Southeast, Inc. – St. . – Southeast, Inc. – St.

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The Feminist Political Economy of Health Justice

Bill Of Health

The points above hold for women broadly, but the case of health care workers, the suppliers of care ( 70% of whom are women ) and of nurses and midwives in particular ( 85% of whom are women ), merits particular attention. Auxiliary nurse (R1I29), 34, single mother of three. . Auxiliary nurse (R1I29), 34, single mother of three.

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