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Rwanda's Model: Progress, With More Work Ahead

Prue Clarke

September 05, 2019 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

Enrolling local agents allows global partners to connect underserved and remote communities to healthcare. A partnership between Rwanda’s Health Ministry and the Boston-based nonprofit, Partners in Health, trains community-based health workers to communicate and connect people on the ground to health services across the country. Rwanda has also implemented reforms and services such as government-subsided healthcare, which has helped improve the life expectancy of its citizens.

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Regaining Innocence in Rural America

Gaby Galvin

September 05, 2019 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Depending on location and socio-economics, treating childhood cancer looks different for many families. In Washington, organizations are cognizant of this gap and are aiming to eliminate barriers for these families by increasing access to resources.

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Colorado emergency rooms are trying something new to stem the opioid crisis: addiction treatment

Jesse Paul

August 28, 2019 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Hospitals in Colorado are changing their approach to opioid crisis by treating patients that come in as emergent cases and rushing them into medication-assisted addiction treatment. The model has proved so successful that doctors are now looking to expand this approach to methamphetamine users as well.

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Colorado to allow medical marijuana for pain instead of opioids

Daliah Singer

August 02, 2019 |

NBC News |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

States are looking for solutions to the nationwide opioid crisis, and marijuana may be one answer to that search. Two states, with a third on the way, are recommending medical marijuana in place of opioids to both reduce addiction and "normalize the conversation around the issue."

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Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

Sarah Dawood

July 23, 2019 |

Design Week |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

Environments designed with soundscapes and visual art help to reduce anxiety and pain. In London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has noted a marked improvement in patient experience, including decreased pain and even a reduction in the time women spent in labor, in the presence of artistic installations. Other hospitals in the UK report similar benefits.

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A Tale of Two PHCs in Niger State: Accessing Equitable Healthcare From Beji to Maito

Bashar Abubakar

July 23, 2019 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Beji village, Bosso Local Government Area, Niger

In Niger State, not all health clinics are treated equally, but one in the Beji village, Bosso Local Government Area (LGA) acts as a model for other healthcare providers to follow. From proactively educating patients about HIV to offering services most rural health clinics fail to offer, the Beji Primary Health Centre (PHC) "provides all the services a PHC is meant to deliver."

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Will New Funding And A Comprehensive Plan Be Enough To Bring Change To State Psychiatric Hospitals?

Caroline Covington

June 28, 2019 |

Texas Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

With hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated to making over Texas’ hospital system, designers are looking beyond simply upgrading the physical infrastructure. Instead, they’re reimagining what the entire system could look like. Considering physical space, the upstream causes of mental health issues, and how to attract and retain the best practitioners are just a few of the elements that are being considered in this redesign.

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Volunteers team up to investigate deaths of moms in Alabama

Anna Claire Vollers

June 11, 2019 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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Response Location: United States, Alabama

To combat pregnancy-related deaths, a coalition of "doctors, nurses, public health leaders and others" have created a Maternal Mortality Review Committee to act as a statewide task force and investigate the reasoning behind such deaths. This type of committee has proven to work in other states, including in California where the review committee was able to identify hemorrhage and pregnancy-induced high blood pressure as two leading causes of maternal mortality.

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Virtual Reality as Therapy for Pain

Jane E. Brody

April 29, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Virtual reality isn't just for gaming anymore. Known as Virtual Reality Therapy, this new use for the technology is bringing relief to those suffering from intense pain by immersing "the patient in an entertaining, relaxing, interactive environment that so occupies the brain, it has no room to process pain sensations at the same time."

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Hospital develops AI to identify patients likely to skip appointments

Hannah Devlin

April 12, 2019 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: England, Greater London

When people don't show up for an appointment, it can cost hospitals a lot of money and also unnecessarily increase wait times for other patients. A hospital in London is trying to reduce both the cost and wait problems by using artificial intelligence to predict which patients are most likely to be no-shows.

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