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To Make Hospitals Less Deadly, a Dose of Data

Tina Rosenberg

December 04, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, California

Available statistics on hospital safety don’t tell the public what they need to know to make informed decisions. A dose of data to increase transparency and accountability could be the answer.

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The Hospital Is No Place for the Elderly

Jonathan Rauch

December 01, 2013 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

As the elderly become more likely to have multiple chronic conditions and experience a gradual decline in health towards the end of their lives, a health care approach that centers hospitalization and intensive care might be ineffective and inefficient. Sutter's Advanced Illness Management program (AIM) is using a new, home-based approach to keep down costs and increase quality of life.

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Health law outreach to Asian Americans lags

Ankita Rao

November 23, 2013 |

Kaiser Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Rockville, Maryland

In the United States approximately 15% Asian-Americans have no health insurance and have had a difficulty understanding the options available in the Affordable Care Act. Although the White House has reached out to Asian-Americans in video chats, the state and community forums for Asian Americans have proved to be the most successful. Interpreter teams help Asian-Americans with the paperwork and understanding the policies.

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In Iowa, Accountable Care Begins To Make A Difference

Jenny Gold

November 21, 2013 |

Kaiser Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Fort Dodge, Iowa

In Iowa, a Medicare program uses financial incentives to encourage doctors and hospitals to provide the highest quality care possible. The approach has proven successful in providing comprehensive treatment for frequent patients.

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HealthCare.gov is busted. These four state exchanges aren't.

Sarah Kliff

October 25, 2013 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Kentucky

Accessible affordable health care is needed for millions of uninsured Americans. The Affordable Care Act is a viable solution that helps the uninsured. Although the launching of the website had some glitches, many states designed their own insurance marketplace and have successfully signed up people for coverage.

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Who Will Heal the Doctors?

David Bornstein

October 02, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Bureaucracy in the health care system causes burnout among doctors. A new medical course, the Healer's Art, is being offered across the nation, which helps doctors reconnect to the humanity of their work and maintain their commitment for it.

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Syria's refugee children haunted by horrors of war

Stephanie Capper

September 22, 2013 |

ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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Response Location: Turkey, Kilis

Child Friendly Spaces in Kilis, a city with a huge Syrian refugee population, and UNICEF’s art program in Jordan’s refugee camp, try to address the mental health of refugees, who are often dealing with great trauma. “If we think these refugees only need food, clothes or medicine, we are looking at them like animals.” Organizers that run these programs say these programs are critical and needed to address the psychological effects of war.

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Medicine's Search for Meaning

David Bornstein

September 18, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

Medicine is in crisis; doctors face early burnout. Medical education contributes: it creates doctors who don’t show emotion. But The Healer’s Art, a medical school course delivered in an unconventional manner, reminds doctors that they and their patients are above all, human.

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The Amazing People Who Are Changing How Low-Income Moms Give Birth

Catherine Pearson

September 12, 2013 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

One of the most vexing problems in U.S. maternity care is that low-income women, who have among the worst reproductive health outcomes in this country, also have limited access to outside birthing support. A new government-funded program provides expecting mothers with doulas, trained assistants who offer much needed physical, emotional and informational support before, during and after birth.

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It really does take a village: How Memphis is fixing healthcare

Alex Halperin

September 03, 2013 |

Salon |

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Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

Preventing and treating chronic disease for low-income patients is one of the most vexing and expensive public health problems in this country - the healthcare system in Memphis, Tennessee, is not immune. But in the middle of the last decade, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis’s largest hospital system, began teaming up with churches to address the city’s abysmal health situation and reduce the cost of care.

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