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#Healthcare administrative bloat and inefficiency are rampant. While I have respect for many aspects of the VA healthcare system, I had not considered administrative efficiency to be one of them. This piece has me questioning my likely false assumptions and creates a different perspective. It represents a system that has the patient (a veteran) at the center of a team-based primary care network with a more holistic lens. VA hospitals outperform non-VA hospitals on 10 core patient satisfaction metrics in a recent Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Star Ratings. In the private sector health care system, we often only addresses the patient’s chief complaint, focusing on the current illness or acute issue. Ensuring a patient’s well-being requires the integration of the physical, psychological, social, and economic aspects of health and a thorough understanding of how these factors impact treatment compliance which the VA does much better than the rest of US healthcare. For you pediatricians, internists, and family medicine docs/clinics out there-- Can we learn from the VA? #UsingWhatWeHaveBetter

🔥Join the next #TTSEducation webinar series: The Roles of Allied Health Professionals in Deceased Donation. Expert panel🗣️ Farida Younan, Estephan Arredondo Córdova, Luc Colenbie, Cassandra Raios, Ana López-Lazcano Join 👉 https://lnkd.in/gVRWYaaB 🗓️ May 7, 8 am (ET) Learning Objectives ✔ 1. Be familiar with the range of roles that allied health professionals may play in deceased organ donation worldwide: nursing, social workers, psychologists and physiotherapis role. 2. Describe the potential benefits of including allied health professionals in multidisciplinary deceased donation care. 3. Discuss potential barriers and solutions for effective engagement with allied health professionals in organ donation.

With maternal mortality/morbidity and newborn death rates on the rise in the United States, how do we make an impact as one individual nurse leader? I’m very excited to share that I completed the Respectful, Equitable Care Certification by the Family to Family Support Network. Anti-racism, unique families, LGBTQIA , substance use disorder, and trauma-informed care are all covered under one amazing certification. However, after reflecting on the whole training, I realized this certification focuses on an overarching theme of interacting respectfully and LISTENING to your patients...ALL of your patients. If we focus on respectful care, that is equitable for our more vulnerable populations, and listen and bring our patients into a shared-decision making model…maybe that’s when we can truly start to turn the dial on our unacceptable maternal & newborn statistics in this country.

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As part of our commitment to expand access to quality health care, Helmsley has granted $11.6 million to three health systems in Nevada, bringing life-saving #ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) technology for patients in rural communities suffering from acute cardiac and pulmonary failure. The availability of ECMO provides timely medical support to those experiencing severe respiratory and cardiovascular distress who face additional challenges around physician shortages, lack of equipment, and geographic barriers to emergency treatment. The grants will go to Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican Siena Hospital, Renown Health Foundation, and University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC), funding physician and staff travel to active extracorporeal life support centers, training equipment, consultation services, and other tools for program expansion across the state. “ECMO can be a game changer for patients with severe heart and lung conditions,” said Walter Panzirer, a Helmsley Trustee. “Without ECMO, hospitals have to transfer patients to other facilities, and those who are too unstable for transport could die before receiving needed care.” Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dSBcE5Eb

Upon discovering disparities in door-to-needle times (DTN) and evaluating their stroke flow process, Altru Health System partnered with us to align their stroke program with nationally recommended best practices and time targets. Dive into our case study to explore how our TeleStroke service contributed to the enhancement of stroke care.

Whelp, the shoe has dropped, friends. The 🚨 has gone off. I have been waiting for decades to see “grateful patient programming” interrogated. Thanks Melissa DeClue, M.Ed for bringing this to my attention. A ⚠️ from the article: “Physicians should not be asked to solicit their patients during fundraising efforts and fundraising should never be a condition of employment for physicians.” Oof. The shoulds. And nevers. 😳 I will say this— The article makes solid points. 🙏🏼 There are some clear gaps though, especially around the role of the physician in these efforts: 1) Grateful patient language has always been presumptuous and assumed the hospital / health system was delivering the QUALITY of care that would make one grateful. If your patient satisfaction scores are low or patients are NOT getting better, is it fair to assume they’d be grateful? #thatsonus #wordsmatter 2) There is SCIENTIFIC research that generosity helps patients and families heal (grieve recover). People WILL innately want to give back. If we do this work right a physician would never have to “ask” or compromise their relationship with their patient. We surely don’t have to mine lists or edge up against HIPAA. We can be a good steward of the physician relationship and create doorways in if the patient or family desires. #thatsondocsandfundraisers #gratitudeheals 3) Yes, concierge programs and bedside visits from fundraisers should (and now I am joining the shoulds) also be examined. It’s wild to me that we ever thought fundraiser visits were a good thing. Is it extra love? Or is it slimey? That said, to my fellow health care activists, this fee for service / VIP clinical care model is absolutely here to stay. It’s sadly a byproduct of a broken, profit first health care system. This is THE fight and providers need to stand for more time, less patients, and greater equity. #thatsonthesystem I could go on. The thing that strikes me the most is this plea to other doctors — "We don't want them to feel that they are alone in this and that the largest specialty organization of physicians in the country is totally behind them," he added. "[ACP] is encouraging them to preserve that patient-physician relationship, despite potential pressures from administrators and corporate executives and the like." The preservation of the patient-physician relationship DEMANDS attention now and that’s not because of GP programs (which again, I am also critical). This relationship has long been strained given the birth of the medical industrial complex. Medicine has lost its way. It’s pressure points are here. I’d like to see the ACP stand for that. So YES, back to the point at hand- It’s on fundraising to reimagine better philanthropic pathways for patients and their families. And it’s on providers to fight for their health and the health of this nation. I know the former will surely happen…will the latter? #authenticask https://lnkd.in/gmkvSHGa