A community-based health program at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center targeting both expectant and new mothers has significantly reduced infant mortality rates, according to a new study...
Members of racial minorities have better survival rates than White patients for limited-stage small cell lung cancer (L-SCLC) after adjustment for other social determinants of health, according to a...
There is a considerable human and healthcare cost that could have been avoided at the onset of COVID-19 had more been done to ameliorate eventual racial health disparities, amounting to thousands of...
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker rang in the new year by signing state legislation that he said will improve patient access to care.
An Act Promoting a Resilient Health Care System That Puts...
Racial health disparities have only gotten worse in the past twenty years, new data shows, despite Congressional and research efforts to better understand and mitigate disparities.
The study,...
Healthcare organizations with cultures of inclusivity and that focus on delivering care to traditionally marginalized populations may be well-positioned to circumvent care access or utilization issues...
The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) has published an open letter to the American Medical Association (AMA), lambasting the group for its stance on nurse practitioner practice...
The social determinants of health garnered a lot of attention once it became evident they can impact value-based care success.
As healthcare providers worked to promote overall health and wellness and...
Expanding nurse practitioner scope of practice is the first step to empowering advanced practice providers (APPs) in leading patient care and ultimately addressing gaps in patient access to care,...
“It takes a village” takes on a whole new meaning when you apply it to healthcare. For Desha Dickson, associate vice president of Community Wellness at Reading Hospital, it takes a literal...
Health disparities and health equity are two phrases that have often been used interchangeably to refer to the fact that some populations are able to achieve health and wellness more easily than...
The American Medical Association and the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) are speaking out against proposed state legislation that would expand scope of practice for advanced practice registered...
Improving primary care access and quality for women will require an allover approach to providing sex-specific, sex-aware, and gender-sensitive care that is coordinated across a woman’s lifetime,...
When COVID-19 first came ashore in the United States, it quickly became apparent that the virus would bring to light racial health disparities that have long pervaded the healthcare industry.
It...
As value-based care and outcomes-based reimbursement increasingly become a reality in healthcare, medical professionals have leaned on key strategies to prevent acute healthcare episodes and boost the...
Having an address in a rural area could mean a patient needs more than just better access to care. According to new research out of the Mayo Clinic, it could also mean that patient experiences the...
Women with breast cancer living in rural areas can travel up to 2,000 miles over the course of their treatment, according to research out of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health,...
The medical industry needs a concerted push toward more and better research regarding the relationship between the social determinants of health, health disparities, and patient access to preventive...
Nearly half of lower- and middle-income adults struggle to pay their dental and healthcare bills, underscoring latent issues with health equity in this country, according to a report from the Robert...
The emergency department is an exceptionally important healthcare setting, giving patients a place to go when they are experiencing life-threatening and often frightening healthcare symptoms. But these...
