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Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population

The Healthcare Blog

I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into, as I handed them a pen to sign their discharge paperwork. Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden.

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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

In this blog, we’ll explore the key takeaways from their conversation and offer actionable strategies hospitals can implement to address these challenges. “Many of our health systems that have at-risk contracts are expecting headwinds in revenue of up to 20%.” Some quotes have been slightly edited for brevity.

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Beyond Stigma: Why Addressing Maternal Mental Health Means Confronting Systemic Failures

The Healthcare Blog

One morning, you wake up to a missed call and a voicemail from your PR leader. You follow up and learn that this wasnt just any employee. ” Her discharge notes state Difficulty coping with anxiety for past 1-2 weeks. She was discharged with blood pressure medication. Their family is furious. He panicked.

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Nurse Researcher Wants to Change How Providers Think About Health Literacy

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If patients are having trouble following the latest health recommendations, providers can engage with the community to better understand why these problems persist. Yet, every time they would come into the hospital, we would discharge them with the same plan. has a health literacy problem of its own.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed. for herself and for her son, Emmett. I like business and people.

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On Other Channels.

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Below is a digest of new blog posts across all the Connect Care clinician blog channels in the last week. For more info on the blogs, click here. Note: A camera icon in a post on any of our channels indicates that there is an accompanying screenshot - just click the icon to view.

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The Craziest Medical Bills

Scrubs

Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. He ended up staying in the hospital for four days and came out with a bill for over $100,000. Total healthcare spending in the U.S.

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