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Patient Support & Advocacy

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4 MIN READ

How patient simulations revive the art of bedside manner

At Saint Peter’s Healthcare System in New Jersey, a simulation center helps teach medical students and resident physicians the human side of medicine.
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Physician Health

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3 MIN READ

3 priorities mark Sanford Health’s proactive approach to burnout

“Cohesive strategy” is needed to help make a dent in all-time high rates of physician burnout, says Sanford Health President Luis Garcia, MD.
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Patient Support & Advocacy

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3 MIN READ

When pandemic hit, Geisinger excelled with patient safety focus

With the right partnership, Geisinger Health System cut hospital-acquired incidents even as COVID-19 took hold. Learn more.
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Digital

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5 MIN READ

Tech, collaboration can mitigate major health care challenges

Amid behavioral health crisis among teens, Kaiser Permanente is working with an esports gaming team to overcome mental health stigma.
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Health Equity

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4 MIN READ

These away rotations boost future Black doctors, 4 weeks at a time

Learn how a partnership enables Morehouse medical students to do away rotations at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.
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Public Health

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9 MIN READ

Delivering lifesaving heart-attack care no matter where patients live

Three Geisinger hospitals are nation's first to earn Comprehensive Heart Attack Center certification, readying them to care for the sickest patients.
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Health Equity

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5 MIN READ

Focus on social needs helps heart patients avoid readmissions

Delaware’s Bayhealth system partners with community to address social determinants of health and sees dramatic drop in heart-failure readmissions.
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Prior Authorization

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7 MIN READ

Why the end could be near for prior-authorization faxes

Payer prior-authorization processes delay care and amplify patient anxiety and physician frustration. Atlantic Health’s automated system may fix that.

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