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  • Innovative 'HUB' model improves infant mortality and saves money: Saving the Smallest

    February 03, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Pathways Community HUB model, born in Mansfield as way to improve pregnancy outcomes, is becoming a national model. Its success is in large part due to its rewarding only caretakers whose patients achieve certain health milestones.

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  • How Uganda Came To Earn High Marks For Quality Of Death

    January 03, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala, Central Region

    Uganda has the best quality of death among low-income countries, according to the Economic Intelligence Unit. Its success stems in part from the strictly regulated but available supply of morphine, which is distributed by pharmacists in labeled bottles.

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  • How Denmark Dumped Medical Malpractice and Improved Patient Safety

    December 31, 2015 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

    Instead of filing expensive lawsuits for malpractice, patients who have experienced undue harm in the course of care go through an internal system both compensates victims and allows doctors to learn from their mistakes. By focusing on reducing patient harm, the system in Denmark places emphasis on problem solving rather than creating an adversarial relationship between the patient and the caregiver.

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  • Prevention better than cure in Cuban healthcare system

    December 13, 2015 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Cuba

    As a person’s disease advances their health care needs become more expensive. The Cuban health care system keeps costs down and patients healthy through compulsory healthy checks and emphasis on prevention.

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  • Medical Program Helps Ease Strain On Hospitals In Developing Countries

    December 04, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: India

    To help with the doctor shortage in India, a non-profit is training patients' family members to check pulses, supervise physical therapy, encourage a healthy diet, and administer medication to reduce readmission rates.

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  • Long-Acting Contraception Makes Teen Pregnancy Rates Plummet. So Why Are Some Women Still Skeptical?

    October 28, 2015 |

    The Nation (New York) |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Historically, decisions to make birth-control methods affordable to low-income women have ignored women's reproductive rights and discriminated against minorities. A counseling model that explicitly focuses on a woman’s preferences could be used to overcome latent bias.

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  • Talking Early About How Life Should End

    October 27, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, La Crosse, Wisconsin

    Few Americans talk about their end-of-life wishes. To encourage these conversations, Medicare has decided to reimburse doctors for the time they spend helping families decide end-of-life wishes. In Wisconsin, a program trained nurses to have these conversations when doctors are too busy.

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  • Why doctors are prescribing legal aid for patients in need

    September 02, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: United States, Omaha, Nebraska

    Many U.S. medical systems are using medical-legal partnerships to help disadvantaged patients who need help navigating problems with landlords and insurers that interfere with their health.

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  • In Los Angeles, a national model for how to police the mentally ill

    June 15, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    How are people with mental illness policed in the U.S.? Unfortunately, often people with mental illness are sent to prison, instead of being treated. There are “10 times as many inmates diagnosed with severe mental illness in the penal system as patients in state mental institutes.” However, in Los Angeles police are paired with mental health clinicians. A move that is saving the city money, and keeping people out of prison.

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  • Wisconsin is learning how to die

    May 28, 2015 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, La Crosse, Wisconsin

    Encouraging conversations with doctors about end-of-life care helps to normalize the process for patients, and ultimately helps to reduce medical costs. The Respecting Choices program developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, provides a model for doctors to follow in discussing end-of-life care with patients. Following the script helps patient’s engage in difficult conversations and allows doctors to make advanced planning a part of a patient’s medical record. Such planning also reduces end of life costs.

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