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  • Preventing Second Injury

    March 03, 2022 |

    Eugene Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Gresham, Oregon

    The Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) is deployed by first responders after a traumatic incident, like sudden death. Citizen volunteers are trained in “emotional first aid” and available to provide support 24/7. TIP has 14 affiliates nationwide, one of which responded to 213 calls between June 2019 and February 2020 with 100% reliability.

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  • Tucson crisis center expanding services for faster mental health care

    March 03, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Crisis Response Center provides mental health and crisis care services as an alternative to emergency rooms or jails. The center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and offers a variety of services focused on recovery for children, teens and adults struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse. The Center is set to expand ahead of the new 988 dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Once expansions are done, the Center will have the capacity to serve between 400 and 600 extra visits a month, on top of the 800 to 1,000 adults who visit the center each month.

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  • How a rural hospital broke language barriers to provide COVID vaccines to immigrants

    March 02, 2022 |

    Side Effects Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Seymour, Indiana

    One rural hospital in Indiana vaccinated hundreds of immigrants from Central America by working with trusted community leaders and setting up a Hispanic Health Task Force. Health officials held vaccine clinics alongside trusted community members at locations that were familiar to residents, like a local Catholic church that offers Spanish-language services. The hospital and task force initially established community connections to distribute information about COVID-19, so they were able to utilize the connections to increase vaccination rates once the vaccine rolled out.

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  • Faith based group offers hope to girls suffering vesicovaginal fistula

    February 24, 2022 |

    Sparkling 92.3 FM |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

    Medical Missionaries of Mary is a Christian faith-based organization that works to complement the government's efforts of helping those experiencing vesicovaginal fistula by providing access to surgery for free. The group also addresses stigma around the condition and helps create a sense of community for patients.

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  • When the Doctor is Just a Truck Away

    February 23, 2022 |

    This Day Live |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The MTN Y’ello Doctor initiative is a medical outreach program that targets underserved communities via mobile clinic trucks. The mobile clinic truck increases healthcare access, helps with healthcare costs, and provides services like treatment for malaria, vaccinations, and screening for other conditions. The trucks provide healthcare to anyone who needs it but has a focus on children and expecting mothers. So far, a total of 97,844 patients have been treated for various ailments thanks to the mobile clinics.

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  • Where a Free Meal for Food-Insecure Families Is Just a Text Away

    February 22, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Inglewood, California

    A pilot program in California is connecting people experiencing food insecurity with prepaid groceries and meals. With just a simple text, a family or individuals can find meals in their neighborhood.

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  • One Cow Per Poor Family Initiative Improving Livelihoods In Eastern Rwanda

    February 17, 2022 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Rwimbogo

    The “one cow per poor family” initiative in Rwanda seeks to increase household income and fight malnutrition by giving families a cow to raise. Once the cow gives birth, the calf is given to another family to raise, keeping the process going. Since the program started in 2006, a total of 341,065 cows have been distributed and residents say it has improved their livelihoods.

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  • Rootead gives birth to groundbreaking family care clinic

    February 16, 2022 |

    NowKalamazoo |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Rootead is a mind-and-body-focused nonprofit that opened the Obodo Perinatal Easy Access Clinic which aims to prioritize the safety of the pregnant and parenting, with a goal of decreasing infant and mother mortality rates that are disproportionately higher for Black women and babies.

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  • One doctor, two states: Comparing Texas and North Carolina transparency

    February 15, 2022 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    The North Carolina Medical Board posts reports of doctors’ disciplinary actions, hospital privilege actions, and malpractice settlements on an online database to increase transparency with patients.

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  • How Saanich Peninsula's Shoreline Medical Society has been fighting the doctor shortage

    February 11, 2022 |

    Capital Daily |

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    Response Location: Canada, Saanich Peninsula, British Columbia

    Shoreline Medical is a non-profit primary care network on the Saanich Peninsula that has expanded residents’ access to primary care doctors. The group has successfully attracted family care doctors despite a severe shortage through combining community and hospital-based care. Doctors spend five weeks working in family medicine and one week assisting with low-severity cases in the emergency room. The physician staffing growth has allowed Shoreline to increase their patient case load to over 17,000 residents, 11,000 of whom previously lacked a primary care doctor.

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