Wyoming Public Media
16 April 2020
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Wyoming, United States
The Wind River Family and Community Healthcare in Wyoming has been able to conduct a significant number of COVID-19 tests due to their early preparedness strategy. By early February, the clinic had begun drafting their plan and by April they had ordered enough supplies to conduct mass testing and implemented drive through testing sites, with all tests being sent to a private lab. Although there are limitations to how accurate results are when using a private lab, doctors at the clinic believe the approach has still been largely beneficial.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/the-family-doctor-minus-the-m-d
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
24 October 2012
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Thousands of clinics in America have no doctors. The primary care providers are nurse-practitioners – and their results are as good or better than that of the doctors.
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/in-india-leading-a-hospital-franchise-with-vision
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
16 January 2013
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Twelve million people are blind in India, and are robbed of their livelihoods as a result. A hugely successful chain of cataract hospitals in India helped its business by treating half its patients for free.
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://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/for-many-a-life-saving-drug-out-of-reach
Maia Szalavitz
The New York Times
22 September 2011
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury-related mortality. Naxolone, a drug used to revive overdose victims, is only available by prescription. However, private organizations have distributed Naxolone kits nationally, showing that the drug can save lives when it is more readily accessible.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-18/some-prenatal-care-community-affair
Shuka Kalantari
Public Radio International (PRI)
18 June 2014
Radio / 3-5 Minutes
Latin American women in San Francisco have suffered from post-partum depression, social isolation, and chronic stress at the time of their pregnancies. Run by midwives, the Centering Pregnancy program at the San Francisco General Hospital provides patient-centered care, an environment to speak in Spanish, and a nurturing community for women’s group appointments. The results boast fewer c-sections and pre-term births, and an improvement in emotional support and overall prenatal health.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/maryland-health/bs-hs-super-utilizer-20150916-story.html
Meredith Cohn
The Baltimore Sun
29 September 2015
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Residents who use a disproportionate amount of health care, or super utilizers, are a high cost for the system. A hospital in Baltimore is following the example of other hospitals and focusing on the underlying problems of super utilizers to reduce emergencies and save costs.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/making-medicine-as-easy-to-get-as-a-can-of-coke
Sarika Bansal
The New York Times
3 July 2013
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A project to take advantage of Coca-Cola’s famous global reach designed a kit of basic medicines that fit in between Coke bottles. But it turned out that what it needed to be copying wasn’t Coke’s package delivery, but it’s investment in the people in its supply chain.
http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/in-s-king-county-an-extraordinary-effort-to-bring-better-health/?syndication=rss
Abigail Higgins
The Seattle Times
25 April 2014
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In S. King County, Wash., the organization Global to Local identified Seattle's ironic status as being a global-health center but having an increasingly unhealthy populace. Global to Local pointed local citizens to a variety of services, using a "connect the dots" approach to treatment.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/the-doctor-will-stream-to-you-now
David Bornstein
The New York Times
11 June 2014
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Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases spread to patients around the world through community healthcare agents, as opposed to only specialty centers. This kind of "disruptive innovation" is effectively working to demonopolize health care knowledge and access, and lends to a health system capable of meeting today’s soaring demands for care.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article86470412.html
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The News & Observer
28 June 2016
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Many medical students forgo a career as a primary care physician for a specialist position, creating a shortage of primary care. North Carolina has created a fellowship program called MedServe that inspires medical students to partake in a career in primary care. MedServe places medical students in clinics for low-income communities so that they can provide more personal attention, which has shown to encourage students to embark on the primary care path.
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