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28 August 2020
Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, United States
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800-1500 Words
The White Mountain Apache and the Navajo Nation are using contact tracing to not just slow the spread of coronavirus but to "completely contain" it in their communities, and they are already seeing success from their ...
20 August 2020
Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
Although offering at-home care has been a practice for some time, the coronavirus pandemic has helped prompt more health insurance companies to allow health care workers to implement the practice at a larger scale. Tr...
30 June 2020
Rochester, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A change in communication policies and outreach procedures has helped the UR Medicine Home Care program retain employees during the coronavirus pandemic, despite increasingly difficult work conditions. Part of this ef...
5 May 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
A home health care cooperative, based in NY, turned to a worker-owned cut and sew cooperative, based in NC, to produce masks for their employees when they were unable to source them elsewhere. The cost of masks and g...
25 April 2020
Lebanon, Connecticut, United States
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800-1500 Words
In the New England region of the U.S., community nurses are working to fill a void in health care during the coronavirus pandemic for those who may require medical attention but do not need hospital care. As described...
18 December 2019
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A partnership between a nonprofit health organization and a community health service program has helped provide enhanced training and more robust mentorship opportunities for home health aids in the New York City area...
5 December 2019
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A Chicago-based program called Caring Together, Living Better is aiming to increase support to family members acting as caregivers for the elderly in their lives by providing resources directly in their churches. Focu...
9 October 2019
Washington, United States
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Worker cooperatives offer a scalable model through which to ensure and protect the rights of home care workers. The Home Care Workers Purpose Trust, started by the Bronx-based Cooperative Home Care Associates, brings ...
4 October 2019
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Community paramedicine programs have been in existence for years but are just recently gaining popularity as a means of letting paramedics act less like crisis managers and more like health counselors. Initially desig...
18 September 2019
Albany, Minnesota, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A shortage of caregivers throughout the U.S. has forced the industry to rethink how it's attracting workers, especially men. From simplifying applications to better targeted outreach, organizations are implementing ne...
26 June 2019
Helsinki, Finland
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800-1500 Words
Digital platforms allow for remote care when access to health care may be expensive or difficult. In Finland, as social welfare policies experience the economic and budgetary constraints of a shrinking population and ...
8 May 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Senior citizens can often face many barriers when trying to set up end of life care, and this is exacerbated for minorities due to language and cultural barriers. On Lok Senior Health Services, however, is a program n...
1 May 2019
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
House calls are not new to the medicine field, but they are becoming more predominant as doctors look for ways to expand access to those that aren't able to make it into an office. Focusing mostly on "disabled, chroni...
27 April 2019
Vermont, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Vermont is home to many senior patients with serious medical needs, but doesn't have enough nursing homes to accommodate. Now, some people are opening their homes to the elderly and providing necessary services - whil...
4 December 2018
Greeley, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
Combining the skills of medical emergency responders, crisis intervention specialists and social workers has had success in lowering the number of 911 calls for a fire department in Greeley, Colorado. Dubbed Squad 1, ...
Apolitical
Burton Bollag
31 October 2018
Germany
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800-1500 Words
When family members fall ill, many times caregiving is placed on fellow family members, which is both time consuming and unpaid. A healthcare company with international reach, is funding research, toolkits and informa...
Politico
Rochelle Sharpe
12 September 2018
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Massachusetts, nonprofit Commonwealth Care Alliance is piloting a new experiment: using federal dollars from Medicare and Medicaid to provide preventive care and pay for the things that aren't explicitly medical, b...
29 August 2018
Alaska, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
In Alaska, the Community Health Aide Program is helping to connect people in remote, rural parts of the state to medical care. The program, started decades ago in collaboration with the Indian Health Service, local go...
8 June 2018
Archidona, Ecuador
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
There are nine indigenous communities that live within the Ecuadorian Amazon, each with their own practices that have been passed down from generation to generation. To maintain independence from the Ecuadorian govern...
Apolitical
Odette Chalaby
19 January 2018
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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800-1500 Words
Many people, often women, spend large amounts of their lives engaging in unpaid care work, dropping out of the labor market or taking a pay cut to care for their families. Hawaii has launched the Kupuna Caregivers Pr...
9 August 2017
Richland County, Ohio, United States
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Under 800 Words
Apollo Healthcare Services has started an elder caregiver support group in Richland County, OH. The intent of this support group is to give caregivers an outlet to voice their frustrations or experiences that accompan...
Kaiser Health News
Susan Jaffe
31 July 2017
United States
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800-1500 Words
Congressional Republicans' push to reduce Medicaid funds is a threatening proposition to the people who use its services. Medicaid funds services at home which allows people to live at home instead of in a nursing hom...
29 October 2016
Concord, New Hampshire, United States
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800-1500 Words
Emergency room visits cost money and are not the most comfortable places to be. The Massachusetts-based Medicare program called Independence at Home gives doctors incentives to visit frail patients at home and receive...
American University Radio (WAMU)
Martin Austermuhle
14 March 2016
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Over 3000 Words
For individuals with developmental disabilities in Washington, D.C., inclusion’s uphill battle, while still happening, has shown results. After the practice of institutionalization ended decades ago, there was a shift...
25 June 2014
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A coordinated care program is helping provide in-home care to those who are considered pre-hopsice and who are combatting chronic health issues. While the program doesn't always financially help the hospitals it opera...
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