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FG's funding initiative is transforming healthcare access in Niger State

Hamzat Abaga

November 01, 2024 |

CrispNG |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

The Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) provided by the federal government is increasing healthcare access for vulnerable populations by renovating dilapidated hospitals and improving access to reliable medical services and resources like medications and potable water.

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Urgent Care or ER? With ‘One-Stop Shop,' Hospitals Offer Both Under Same Roof

Phil Galewitz

August 02, 2024 |

KFF Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

In collaboration with Intuitive Health, UF Health has opened three centers that offer both ER and urgent care 24/7, at the same facility so patients don’t have to decide themselves which care they need. Instead, doctors at the center make that decision and then the system bills the patient accordingly. This helps them avoid taking on expensive ER bills when that level of care may not have been necessary.

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Could better asthma inhalers help patients, and the planet too?

Martha Bebinger

May 06, 2024 |

WBUR |

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Response Location: United States

Healthcare professionals are educating their patients on the environmental impacts of metered-dose inhalers, which release a powerful greenhouse gas into the air with each puff. To reduce that impact, they’re offering an option with powdered medicine that patients manually suck into their lungs for those that are able to make the switch.

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Mediación para derribar las barreras lingüísticas y culturales en salud

María Miret

March 22, 2024 |

Revista Haz |

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Response Location: Spain, Madrid

Hasta la crisis migratoria ‘de los cayucos’ no existían mediadores interculturales en salud en España. En este marco surge el Servicio de Interpretación y Mediación Intercultural sociosanitaria de Salud Entre Culturas, uno de los pocos presenciales, integrado en un hospital. Su objetivo, junto con los teléfonos de interpretación idiomática, es echar abajo las barreras lingüísticas y socioculturales en la sanidad española.

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Trauma to triumph: ASHA helping women overcome depression in India

Sanket Jain

October 09, 2023 |

Devex |

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Response Location: India

To help provide rural access to mental health care in India, ASHAs (appointed female healthcare workers) work in their local communities to identify and support women in need. By providing free listening and support services in addition to their medical care, ASHAs have helped thousands of impoverished women recover from depression.

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Don't call it vegan: What hospitals are learning about nudging people to eat greener

Martha Bebinger

June 28, 2023 |

WBUR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospitals in Boston found success encouraging staff to eat more plant-based meals by emphasizing the climate benefits and not labeling foods as vegan or vegetarian.

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Responding to the call - EMS in rural Minnesota

Amanda Anderson

January 24, 2023 |

Pioneer PBS |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Elbow Lake, Minnesota

Emergency medical services in rural Minnesota are dealing with staffing and funding shortages by creating new systems that allow them to work together to respond to calls and are more flexible with where volunteers need to be located.

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Pediatricians are giving out free gun locks to approach the gun violence epidemic as a public health crisis

Emma Tucker

January 22, 2023 |

CNN |

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Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

In an effort to encourage gun owners to safely store their firearms and keep them away from children, free gun locks are available with no questions asked at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri. The pediatricians are trained to have non-judgemental conversations about safe storage education during a child’s appointment.

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Crisis Mode

Anna Kaminski Winter Wagner

January 12, 2023 |

Eugene Weekly |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

Tucson's Crisis Response Center and Mental Health Support Team are designed to provide immediate help to people in mental health crises rather than routing them through the criminal legal system. The system, which serves nearly 15,000 people annually, is now being used as a model for efforts in other areas, such as Lane County, Oregon.

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An ‘OG COVID Crew' nurse at Tucson's Banner-University, her story illustrates Arizona's urgent health care dilemmas

John Washington

December 29, 2022 |

Arizona Luminaria |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on, and exasperated, existing issues in Arizona’s healthcare industry. Medical staff are still dealing with the repercussions and are speaking up to demand better working conditions.

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