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Culturally Competent Nursing Mentorship

Minority Nurse

Census Bureau (2020), 57.8% of the American population is White, forming the majority; Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority comprising 18.7%; Black or African Americans are the largest racial minority making up 12.1% Census Statistics and Nursing Numbers. According to the U.S. of the population.

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Home Health Agencies Face Growing Competition as Value-Based Purchasing Expands Nationally

Relias

A recent Relias webinar on HHVBP indicated that the total Medicare spending reduction in the program’s first five years (2016-2020) resulted in a $942.2 When determining improvement scores, the baseline year will be 2019 as opposed to 2020 due to the potential effects of COVID-19 distorting the data. Toilet transferring.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Dr. Selena Gilles

Minority Nurse

My mom grew up in a very disadvantaged neighborhood. I didn’t grow up in the best neighborhoods. As a latchkey kid who grew up in the NYC public schools, I knew I had to make it out of areas where most lack the resources to succeed. In 2020, I was inducted as a fellow in the NY Academy of Medicine.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum. It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. Companies that control both insurance and care delivery have a great deal of flexibility in what the accountants term “transfer pricing”.

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Is a Criminal Justice Program Expensive?

Northwest Career College

The following factors determine the total cost of a particular criminal justice program: Type of School: Public universities are generally more economical than private colleges. Community colleges are the least expensive, followed by public universities, while private colleges can be the most costly. According to the U.S.

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2021: Lessons from Loss – ‘Never Give Up’

Setting Sights

A belated Christmas, and a gift to myself – a cushion reading ‘Never Give Up’ to wake up to each morning. There have been so many moments in which we’ve felt like giving up, where it’s felt like the day isn’t worth seizing, that the night isn’t worth seeing through. And 2020-2021 has been no exception.

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The Words I Thought I’d Never Say – ‘I’m Going Back To Medical School’

Setting Sights

2020 marked the start of my hellish journey, and a hellish journey it was for so many , but for me it meant a bunch of new, life-changing diagnoses, a kind of sentence that would mean everything changing, nothing ever being the same again. I had been left again, slipped from any system of follow-up or overseeing care.