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https://lnkd.in/eSPpqH7d I found this to be an interesting article. Community para medicine can be an effective tool to get healthcare to vulnerable populations. Yes there are barriers, such as scope of practice, funding, and staffing. There are benefits though, such as lowering the potential of Emergency Room visits for sometimes routine procedures. Maybe it is time to look at a different dynamic. Instead of just a two paramedic unit, staff an ambulance with two paramedics and a Physician Assistant. Depending on the area being implemented, schedule visits with patients to have routine checks. This can be beneficial to patients that have difficulty making it to doctors appointments due to transportation issues, or for those that do not have family support to get them to the doctor. This can help ease the strain on calls to 911, overflowing Emergency Rooms, especially in bigger cities. Technology can allow use of electronic medical records, to update patients charts. Now the biggest problem is going to be multiple EMR's used by different organizations. What if community para medicine programs had access and training to the EMR's used by the organizations in their communities. Yes, it is a lot of training but it allows for better continuity of care. As medicine advances, changes need to be adapted to make healthcare available to all. If this type of program can be successful, think of the impact it can make on the bigger part of the picture. If we can reduce the number of Emergency Room visits, and potentially hospital admissions, what relief would come for those that work in hospitals. This may be looked at as transferring the burden of burn out to a different sector, but with proper planning and implementation could it be feasible? #CommunityMedicine #Paramedicine #CommunityHealth #PublicHealth

Site neutral isn’t neutral. Of the top 20 hospitals facing off-campus HOPD cuts, 17 are academic medical centers training medical students and residents. Visit https://lnkd.in/enPqNJ39 to learn more. #SiteNeutral #HealthCare #HospitalCosts #HealthcarePolicy #HospitalFacts

Dr Caroline Taylor, NAPC Chair, attended the HSJ Virtual Care Conference last week and was part of the closing panel on ‘Building an engaged and flexible workforce to feasibly deliver virtual services at scale’ with Rachel Binks, Nurse consultant, Digital and Acute Care, Airedale Digital Care Hub and Niall Keenan, Consultant Cardiologist, Clinical Lead for Virtual Hospitals, Associate Medical Director, West Herts Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Caroline explained “It was interesting to hear about the different models they have for delivering virtual care in secondary care. In Primary Care there was a very quick shift to virtual consultations and appointments in Covid across community health and wellbeing services, but the challenge then and still now is that we don’t have the estate in primary care to allow our whole teams to be based and work together when delivering virtual care. "This leaves staff feeling unsupported and lacking the critical elements of connection and support that we all need from the teams we work with. In secondary care estate is much less of an issue and this has allowed very good team dynamics to develop delivering. It’s difficult to know what the solution is for primary care but was interesting to explore how successful virtual services can be with the right environment.”  #NHS #virtualcare #healthcare

So necessary! Now we need a concerted effort to make sure marginalized populations can get access to family physicians who understand their unique needs. To learn more, please see a recent paper I published from my MA thesis supervised by Ciann L. Wilson (open access!): https://lnkd.in/gbqdtbEe

Enabling healthcare providers the ability to work to their full scope of practice will not fragment care 🙌 People grow a stronger connection with their healthcare organisation through improved access and people know whomever they need to see, they can see them at their local healthcare organisation. I have seen this work. My frontline days were only ever in multidisciplinary teams where we all worked to our full scope of practice 🌟 Healthcare is a partnership 🤝 Multi-disciplinary healthcare teams supports our providers… reducing burnout, feeling valued, learning together, among others I’m sure! How do you think partnership in healthcare can create fragmentation? I’m curious on your thoughts👇 #healthcarereform #partnership #multidiscplinaryteams

Looking to integrate the patient perspective into your communications? Know a clinician who could benefit from patient-centered care coaching (and get CEUs)? Check out my friend Claire Sachs!

Please check out this fantastic article by my esteemed colleague, Joanne Benedict, MSN, RN, CHPN, published in this month’s issue of Home Healthcare Now! Quality improvement is happening NOW at NYU Langone Health! #homecare #palliativeeducation #advancecareplanning

As we enter 2024, healthcare leaders prepare to face various challenges in their mission to deliver top-notch care. We're talking about hurdles such as: ➡ The growing workforce shortage, ➡ An aging population, ➡ And a mounting disease burden. But thankfully, solutions are on the horizon! And based on our research, here are some of the strategies that healthcare leaders will employ to navigate these competing headwinds. Check the slides. . . . #FukudaDenshi #DynaScope #HealthcareProfessional #Doctor #Nurse #Medical #Hospital #HealthcareIndustry

For several years, I posted about the “smoothing patient flow” intervention that has been proven multiple times to significantly reduce patient mortality, ED overcrowding, and nursing shortages while improving hospital annual balance by millions for EVERY hospital that implemented it. It has also been credited, if implemented nationwide, to reduce US annual healthcare cost by 4%-5% (~$200 billion). Some details of implementing this intervention has been provided in the Joint Commission Resources book https://lnkd.in/d7SBFnCq. Potential national impact of this intervention on healthcare quality and cost as well as the studies of this intervention are included in the new book by John Wiley & Sons: https://lnkd.in/eQuFbSvF. The book is written in a very accessible way and is based on interviews with the leading national health policy experts, US, Canada and the UK nurses, Emergency and other physicians, surgeons, patient advocates, hospital and outpatient clinic CEOs, etc. While the book is going to be published in a few months, the excerpt from it about one of the hospitals that implemented this intervention, has been published today by the Harvard School of Public Health: https://lnkd.in/eJ3CpwFm (please scroll down the page). I hope this example would encourage other hospitals to follow Cincinnati Children's, thereby providing safer care for their patients, the optimal work environment for their clinicians and alleviating healthcare inequity. There is no doubt that hospitals and Community Health Centers will implement this intervention sooner or later. Sooner, however, means many more saved lives and billions of dollars. Although I’ve done this in the past, it is important for me to mention again that I am receiving no proceeds from this book’s sale. #HarvardPublicHealth #patientsafety #hospitalovercrowding #nurseburnout #healthcare #healthequity #qualityofcare #patientcare #patientexperience #healthcareleadership #hospital #hhs #cms #hrsa #nhs #ministryofhealth #cbs #cnn #msnbc #healthcarejournalism #investigativereporting #newyorktimes #washingtonpost

By 2036, we will not have enough physicians to meet demand in the United States, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSAgov), HHS. Mona Sutphen, partner and head of investment strategies at The Vistria Group, and Elizabeth Jurinka, operating director of health care policy at Vistria PRG, tackle how the public and private sector can work together to address healthcare worker burnout and physician retention in a recent op/ed for Crain's Chicago Business. https://lnkd.in/gSm7e-_F