Telehealth Has Transformed Maternity Care During COVID-19
Some of the biggest disruptions in the health sector during the COVID-19 pandemic have occurred in maternity care — bringing changes that some experts say were long overdue. Learn how maternity care providers are using telehealth to deliver prenatal and mental health services while also offering postpartum oversight via remote monitoring tools.
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Nonprofits Struggle to Survive During the Pandemic
At a time when their vulnerable clients need them most, nonprofit community-based organizations face dire threats to their ability to provide key social services. Drawing from new survey findings, researchers describe the pandemic’s impact on these organizations, from dwindling funds and staffing constraints to challenges in delivering services.
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Who Is Still Getting COVID? Can I Clean My Masks? When Will People Get Together Again?
Who is still getting infected? Would anything kill the virus on my masks so they could be reused safely? When can people start to see each other when they haven’t quarantined together? These and other questions are answered with wit and bad sports analogies in Corona Question Corner. Submit your questions to [email protected].
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Community Health Workers Put Patients in Charge of Their Health
Community health workers, who often live in the same communities and come from similar backgrounds as their clients, can help people take charge of their own health. On The Dose podcast, we talk to Shreya Kangovi, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania’s IMPaCT community health worker program, which is helping some of the poorest and sickest Americans meet their health and social needs.
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Improving Coordination Between Medicare and Medicaid for Patients’ Sake
In the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Arielle Elmaleh-Sachs, M.D., and the Commonwealth Fund’s Eric Schneider, M.D., examine Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans, which aim to integrate Medicare and Medicaid, improve quality, and reduce costs in order to “enable some of the very sickest Americans to receive the highest quality health care at a price the nation can afford.”
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