Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. states since 2008. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 14, 2022

Findings from a new Northwestern Medicine study rebut the idea that Black individuals’ higher risk of cardiovascular disease is because of biological differences. “The key take-home message is that racial differences in cardiovascular disease are not due to race itself, which is a social concept that is not related to biology.”. Black adults are at significantly higher risk (1.6-2.4 times) for cardiovascular disease than white adults.

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Bell-Brown Medical Institute

JULY 15, 2022

Medical assistants are one of the fastest-growing healthcare provider groups in the country. This is due, in part, to their versatility. Medical assistants can work in a variety of settings, including hospitals, clinics, and physician offices. They can also perform a variety of tasks, from clerical work to patient care. As a result, medical assistants can fill several roles within the healthcare industry.

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Relias

JULY 12, 2022

The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness. Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future. Instead, forward-thinking executives are building work cultures that embrace post-acute care reskilling and upskilling to maximize adaptability.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Supply chain challenges, inflation, and plummeting consumer economic sentiment are setting the stage for a decline in consumer electronics revenues for 2022. However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 11, 2022

All my life I have rarely been sick, in fact there have only been two times that I can recall. So, about three months ago when I started feeling bad, it was out of the ordinary. I did not have any obvious symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, headache, runny nose etc. I just had a lack of energy and no appetite. During this time it made me realize that “I would rather have great health, more than any material thing”; not that I do not like nice things or places.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 11, 2022

As many hospices continue to diversify into new business lines, staying abreast of enforcement trends outside of hospice is more important than ever. Home health in particular, is receiving significant government scrutiny. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske talks with Bryan Nowicki and Erin Burns about a new round of home health audits being conducted by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2022

With only 1 in 10 people in the U.S. thinking their lives are the same as they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, about one-half of Americans believe that remote work, virtual community events, and telehealth should continue “once the pandemic ends.” As of mid-May 2022, most people in the U.S. have resumed activities like socializing with friends and neighbors in person, going to restaurants and bars, traveling, meeting with older relatives face-to-face, and returning to exercising i

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2022

The life expectancy of Californians decreased by about three years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The research further shows that life expectancy for Hispanic, Asian and Black Californians decreased more than for white Californians and that the gap in life expectancy between those living in the highest- and lowest-income census tracts increased, from a difference of about

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Relias

JULY 14, 2022

Lora Sparkman, MHA, RN, BSN, Partner, Patient Safety and Quality at ReliasAlarmingly, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is more than double the rate of 10 other high-income countries, according to a 2020 report from The Commonwealth Fund. The rate for non-Hispanic Black women is even worse — more than double that of non-Hispanic white women and nearly triple that of Hispanic women.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 14, 2022

Background . In direct response to the significant challenges experienced by long term care (LTC) facilities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden-Harris Administration announced its commitment to improving safety and quality of care. During the March 1, 2022 State of the Union address, President Biden reaffirmed the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to protecting residents and staff of nursing homes.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2022

Inflation and the fear of economic recession were the top two causes of anxiety in America, followed by gun violence, in June 2022. Moms and Hispanic adults, in particular, were worried about losing income and of gun violence, discovered in the Healthy Minds Monthly Poll for July 2022 from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and Morning Consult.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 11, 2022

As a nurse, you might think networking isn’t as vital to your career as the on-the-job skills you hone every day. But networking is a vital element of career success. Networking effectively takes commitment and planning, so taking the time for an approach that will work for you will help you get the most out of anything you do. You’ll meet people who can help you.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 14, 2022

“To begin, we must acknowledge that from 1916 until 1964, ANA purposefully, systemically and systematically excluded Black nurses…” The American Nurses Association (ANA) is taking a meaningful first step to acknowledge its own past actions that have negatively impacted nurses of color and perpetuated systemic racism. With the release of a formal racial reckoning statement on July 12, ANA is beginning a multi-phase journey of reconciliation, forgiveness, and healing.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 14, 2022

Joanne Campbell, RN, PHN passed away peacefully on June 21 after a 5-year battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 91. Joanne Marilyn Ross Campbell: June 11, 1931 – June 21, 2022. Joanne was born at home in Lakeport, California, on June 11, 1931, to Joseph and Anna (Santos) Ross. Soon after, Joanne and family moved to their beloved ranch on Big Valley Road in Finley, California.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2022

When Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo was born on September 14, 1918, in Stockton, California, no one could imagine that by the time she was 30 she would work in a hospital under attack by the Japanese Army; escape occupied Hong Kong disguised as a Chinese servant; travel by boat, truck and foot across 700 miles of war-torn China; become the first Chinese-American nurse to join the US Army Nurse Corps; and then graduate from Women’s College in Greensboro, North Carolina, with a Bachelor of Science in Nurs

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Minority Nurse

JULY 13, 2022

Part Two: Nursing in War-Torn China. ( To read Part One, click here ). At the beginning of the war, rural China had very few hospitals, medical supplies, equipment or trained personnel. Malnutrition, lack of basic sanitation, overwork and disease were commonplace, making the provision of health care very challenging. Rural people usually relied on traditional Chinese medicine and practitioners.

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