Cristina de la Fuente, BSN, RN, CV-BC’s Post

Medical practitioners, let's remember that our legal colleagues can be our allies when advocating for patients through medical-legal partnerships. We can use these partnerships to promote health justice by recognizing and empowering our patients and their communities who are affected by health inequities. #HealthJustice #patientadvocacy

From the last paragraph: "What is the future of a country that allows an untold number of its people to suffer and die unnecessarily because of a lack of access to basic health services, inadequate public health measures, and a tattered social safety net?"

We have deep admiration for those who choose to protect and care for our society. The path to serving and stewarding human health — the role of the “Service Archetype”— never begins too early. Few fields evoke a sense of mentorship and possibility, like medicine. VIDEO CREDIT: IG @rcsi_studentlife #healthcareperformance #highperformancemedicine #sacredworldofmedicine #servicearchetype #clinicia

Family medicine is at the ❤️ of a community's health. Addressing health disparities & improving health outcomes for minority populations ties directly to #MinorityHealthMonth. The American Academy of Family Physicians has resources to help advance equitable access to care in your practice. https://bit.ly/3x6Lcc9

Really important piece here:

Last week, the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Physicians for Human Rights conducted an event called: "Attacks on Health Care: A Global Crisis." PHR’s HOUSSAM ALNAHHAS and Sam Zarifi joined a panel and discussed the fundamental relevance of international law and bioethics in protecting health workers, health facilities, and access to health in times of conflict. Thank you to all who joined! ICYMI, watch the event here: https://bit.ly/3v1tupQ

What I recently learned in my practice ✍️✍️ It's as simple as that, the medical and Public health crisis we face is deep rooted; 1. lack of self autonomy (there must be equality between Regulators, Practitioners and end users/Community) 2. Grassroot capacity for health autonomy is insufficient (Week Public health activities on medical service) 3. Commericial benefit predominate health care service (balance bn day to day medical error at Government inistitution and Diagnosis overload at private Facility both on end users/community).

Health care is the largest sector of the US economy, at $4.5 trillion and one-fifth of GDP, yet our health care system is broken in so many ways, and lack of competition has a lot to do with that. See the announcement from AAG Jonathan Kanter on the creation of a new Antitrust Division task force to focus on making health care markets work better to benefit all Americans. (Full disclosure: I am serving in the Antitrust Division. The views in this repost above are mine and do not necessarily represent the views of the US Department of Justice.)

HealthyCompetition.gov may be getting a lot of inquiries soon: "The HCMC will consider widespread competition concerns shared by patients, health care professionals, businesses and entrepreneurs, including issues regarding payer-provider consolidation, serial acquisitions, labor and quality of care, medical billing, health care IT services, access to and misuse of health care data and more." #doj #competitionlaw

HLB's Health Equity Essentials Update Read it here: https://bit.ly/4aYG1K2 This issue covers: 1. Millions Losing Medicaid During “Unwinding” of Pandemic Era Policy; 2. Reproductive Health Update; 3. DHCS & CHCF Developing Health Equity Roadmap; 4. EY Health Equity Outlook Report Depicts Promising Findings on Health Equity Prioritization; and 5. Upcoming Events Brought to you by: Alicia Macklin, Sandi Krul, Monica Massaro, and Kerry Sakimoto #healthequity #healthlaw