Discover how charity care plans can benefit your practice while expanding access to healthcare services for individuals in need. Learn the essentials of implementing a charity care plan tailored to your organization.
Health equity means that patients’ social, economic, or cultural demographics do not determine their ability to access quality healthcare. While
Attorney Erin Jackson was recently interviewed by URBO about the distinctions between pets, service dogs, and emotional support animals. As airlines’ pet-related
If the safety and quality of nursing home services decreases, elderly and disabled patients may seek an alternative means of care, such as that offered by in-home health. Home health providers can provide the individualized care that patients and their families seek, and they can often significantly delay an individual’s transition into a full-time care facility.
It’s time to purchase health insurance for 2018. As President Trump’s first year in office winds down, the health insurance market is experiencing astounding turbulence. We answer your top 3 questions to help you cruise through Open Enrollment season without losing your cool.
July 28, 2017 is World Hepatitis Day, as declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2015, the WHO reports that about 325,000,000 lived with chronic hepatitis, and viral hepatitis caused 1.34 million deaths. So, in honor of World Hepatitis Day, we’re sharing a few of our favorite global health organizations. Check them out, and add your own to the list too!
Naloxone rapidly reverses an opioid overdose and can quickly restore normal respiration in someone whose breathing has stopped or slowed from an overdose. The life-saving drug has been deployed throughout the country to help combat the opioid epidemic.
HIPAA already contains such exceptions, so Christie’s suggestions are more political posturing than advocating for change.As needed to treat a patient, providers may disclose protected health information without the patient’s permission.
The lawsuit asserts that “[t]he brunt of the [opioid] epidemic could have been, and should have been, prevented by the defendant companies acting within the U.S. drug distribution industry, which are some of the largest corporations in America. These drug wholesalers and retailers have profited greatly by allowing the Cherokee Nation to become flooded with prescription opioids.”
A food desert is a geographic area which lacks fresh fruit, vegetables, and other whole foods. These arise from an absence of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers, and the United States is full of them (1). This problem is linked to obesity, poor diet choices, and hunger – all things that detrimentally affect the health of our communities and, thus, the conditions that show up in our clients’ clinics each day.
