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mPharma & TytoCare Integrate to Offer Telehealth to Pharmacies in Africa

HIT Consultant

By using TytoCare, mPharma’s mutti pharmacy network has been able to reduce costs, improve community members’ access to doctors and specialists, and save patients the long wait times that are common in hospitals and clinics. On average patients can wait two to three hours to see a doctor at public hospitals and one hour in private hospitals.

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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, 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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New Footscray Hospital to deploy Hills' nurse call platform

Healthcare It News

The new Footscray Hospital in Melbourne's west is adopting a nurse call solution from Hills Health Solutions, the digital health arm of ASX-listed company Hills Limited. million) contract to supply and install its Nurse Call platform in more than 500 beds in the upcoming hospital.

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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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Newsletter, November 2022

Patient Safety Movement

CHAIRMAN’S COLUMN Two key elements as we address the senseless loss of life and continued harm in maternal and neonatal health are hierarchy of decision making and transparency of outcomes in an increasingly fearful environment for expectant mothers and partners, midwives, nurses, and relevant doctors.