In September 2020 Golda Barton’s 13-year-old autistic son became frantic with anxiety the first day she had to return to work after several months at home. His mother called 911 and asked for a crisis intervention team. When Salt Lake City police showed up, the boy ran. One of the officers chasing him shot him…
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — When the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools district started bringing therapists into their schools every day, they noticed a dramatic increase in kids getting the mental health care they needed. To take it a step further, the district opened up a “Care Clinic” after school to help even more students. One…
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Let me note, too, that the freight of words is affected by who’s speaking them. Patients — perhaps as a result of sepsis-associated delirium or certain neurological disorders — may not be in control of their speech; people who are subject to Tourette-syndrome-related coprolalia should not be denied medical treatment because their words make clinicians…
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When Chantina Wilson was six months pregnant, she started having abdominal pains. She scheduled an appointment with her doctor, a white man, who told her she was having Braxton-Hicks contractions. But this wasn’t Wilson’s first pregnancy. She knew what contractions felt like. Still, her doctor ignored her protests and sent her home with prescription-strength Tylenol….
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Leaders From the Joint Venture Health Plan Share the Secrets of Success as a Joint Venture in On-Demand Webinar PHOENIX, June 01, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Banner|Aetna, a joint venture health plan owned by Banner Health and Aetna/CVS Health, today announced the company is taking part in the webinar series Matters in Managed Care from the American Journal…
Older adults who have survived COVID-19 are more likely than younger patients to have persistent symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness, muscle aches, heart palpitations, headaches, joint pain, and difficulty with memory and concentration — problems linked to long COVID. But it can be hard to distinguish lingering aftereffects of COVID from conditions common in older…
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Infection preventionists and the equipment and cleansers they use gained a spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include both established and innovative materials. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to rapid adjustments and innovations in infection prevention and public health practices over the past 2 years. Health care cleaning and disinfection also gained a spotlight as…
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“To provide quality, affordable, accessible and compassionate health care services that promote the well-being of all members of the community.” The mission statement of Axis Community Health may seem simple enough, but the effort to fulfill that vital vision day in and day out remains anything but. One of the most important nonprofit organizations in…
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