Stateline
8 April 2020
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Seattle, Washington, United States
Across the U.S. many state hospitals and forming partnerships with each other and hospitals in other states to better address the coronavirus pandemic. Washington's hospital system is emerging as a model for collective cooperation, where all 115 hospitals communicated thoroughly with another to unilaterally suspend nonessential procedures and move all children and young adults out of the main hospitals to pediatric facilities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/health/san-francisco-hiv-aids-treatment.html
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
The New York Times
5 October 2015
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The H.I.V. infection rate in San Francisco dropped drastically after the city increased testing and created programs like Rapid, which immediately offer public health insurance, antiretroviral drugs, and personal counselors for people with AIDS.
http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/10/07/swine-flu
Kyle Dickman
TakePart
7 October 2016
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Flu epidemics are predicted to be a major source of human death in the coming years, which, is why attention and funding needs to be paid to research and understanding. Bowman, in this article, discusses how Ohio narrowly missed a flu pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/opinion/fighting-cholera-haiti.html
John Cary
The New York Times
12 September 2017
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The cholera outbreak in Haiti affected and killed thousands of people. Treating patients as quickly as possible became a top priority. Mass Design Group designed Gheskio's Cholera Treatment Center as a building that promotes recovery with water sanitation, ultimately reducing the number of cases of Cholera.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/05/one_rural_alabama_hospital_is.html
Anna Claire Vollers
AL.com (Alabama Media Group)
27 May 2015
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Rural areas are seeing the shut down of medical services such as Labor & Delivery units, making it harder for expectant mothers to receive proper care. Dr. Waits in Bibb County is opening a Labor & delivery unit through critical funding, and using the unit for more than just obstetrics.
http://nmpolitics.net/index/2017/11/officials-explore-options-to-expand-psychiatric-hospital-to-southern-nm
Diana Alba Soular
NMPolitics.net
28 November 2017
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The only psychiatric hospital in New Mexico is in the north, which means frequent trips must be made from the south to bring new patients which is expensive and makes it difficult for southern families to visit. There is a new push to build a psychiatric hospital in the south to decrease the transportation of patients and include families in care, but there are space and financial issues with this new idea.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/26/kansas-hospital-rural-healthcare-218407
Lisa Rab
Politico
26 May 2018
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Instead of letting a rural Kansas hospital perish, one CEO found a way to recruit young physicians, and get grants for the hospital. His methods helped the hospital avoid the common fate many rural hospitals face, which are often forced to shut down. It “now serves about 20,000 patients annually, up from roughly 10,000 patients in 2012, and generated $23.4 million in revenue last year.”
https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2018/09/alabama-birth-coaching
Katherine Webb-Hehn
Scalawag
24 September 2018
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In one of the worst states to have a pregnancy, midwives might be the answer. In Alabama, activists pushed for the re-legalization of professional midwifery. Now, midwifes in the state are providing care for mothers, and are hoping “to prevent many of the conditions that lead to unfavorable outcomes in the first place.” “The families who participate in this model are more satisfied, feel more empowered, feel more prepared for birth, initiate breastfeeding at higher rates and have fewer low-birth weight babies.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-shocking-number-of-us-women-still-die-from-childbirth-california-is-doing-something-about-that/2018/11/02/11042036-d7af-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?noredirect=on
Michael Ollove
The Washington Post
4 November 2018
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While maternal mortality rates climbed in the United States, California decreased its incidence of maternal death in childbirth. A collaborative group formed to study the issue and started the Maternal Data Center to keep track of how and why women died. Other states are trying to replicate their success with a collaborative called Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health.
https://apnews.com/0d2adf9c739a41ceb4a33cbfe69ffce0
Kristen de Groot
Associated Press
2 November 2018
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Some hospitals are finding ways to help their patients vote. Penn Votes Project is an initiative between hospitals and the Penn Law School that helps patients fill out and notarize their absentee ballots. Then there’s Patientvoting.com where patients can find information on medical absentee voting by state. “Every citizen of the United States has the right to vote and we think getting ill shouldn’t impair that process.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/health/opioid-addiction-treatment.html
Abby Goodnough
The New York Times
18 August 2018
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Eight California hospitals use government funds to play for the E.D. Bridge program. They dispense buprenorphine on demand in an effort to address the gap in care between withdrawals and entry into rehabilitation programs. Then the hospital connects patients to larger treatment centers for ongoing care. A Yale-New Haven Hospital study shows that patients given a dose of buprenorphine in the emergency room are twice as likely to be in treatment a month later.
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