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How a landmark UCLA dementia program could ease burdens in Rochester communities of color

Sarah Taddeo

December 20, 2019 |

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

The Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care program at UCLA in California is offering a new kind of patient-centered care that has helped bring relief to families in the region. The program, which creates a care plan "that builds in medical needs, solutions for caregiver stress and cultural traditions unique to each person and their family," has resulted in decreased stress and symptoms for patients and increased confidence and support for caregivers.

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Volunteers step in to keep asylum seekers healthy on border

Julie Watson

December 18, 2019 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: Mexico, Tijuana

In Tijuana, many asylum seekers are left without access to health care while they await a decision on their cases so medical professionals are volunteering their time to try to help those that need it. Although they are faced with a myriad of barriers, their pop-up clinics that promote “border-less medicine,” have grown to hundreds of volunteers who have seen more than 9,000 patients.

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Advocates want to recycle CT's wasted prescription drugs. The state says it's already doing that.

Jenna Carlesso

December 16, 2019 |

The Connecticut Mirror |

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Response Location: United States, Bridgeport, Connecticut

Connecticut has a law that requires the state to collect unused prescription drugs to be reimbursed by the vendor companies, but advocates for better health equity want to see the unexpired drugs instead be distributed to those that need them. While one pharmacy in Bridgeport has already started a model to get the drugs into hands of the uninsured or underinsured by importing pharmaceuticals from a Tennessee non-profit, leaders of the Bridgeport operation hope to one day "see a drug reclamation program that steers unused medications from within Connecticut to charity dispensaries" within the state.

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California works to reverse high maternal mortality rates

Kyley Warren

December 16, 2019 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

To reduce the rates of maternal mortality in California, medical researchers joined with hospitals to study the causes of the death in order to better understand how to move forward. After identifying interventions that could have saved lives in the majority of cases, the collaborative created toolkits and has since worked with participating hospitals to implement better protocols for dealing with cardiovascular disease, hemorrhage, preeclampsia, and reducing cesarean births.

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Native women join together to confront high rates of maternal mortality

Kyley Warren

December 16, 2019 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Women in Indian Country and across the nation face higher rates of maternal mortality due to lack of accessible health care, but an initiative that started in New Mexico are now teaching indigenous women on reservations how to become doulas in order to fill the gap. The training and education offerings empower the women to eliminate the barriers they face by taking their health into their own hands.

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Chicago Leads the Fight for Food Justice by Building Innovative Local Food Ecosystems

Alexandria Jacobson

December 15, 2019 |

LA Progressive |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

To fight food insecurity—especially with those experiencing homelessness—Chicago has created a network of programs and organizations across the city to support those who need it in many different ways. One example is the Homeless Outreach Luncheon at Marillac St. Vincent Family Services, offering a meal, sleeping bag, a coat/clothing, a doctor, podiatrist, lawyer, and more. This article takes a look at a few of these responses and details how they work.

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‘They only cut off half my left foot.' What happens when inmate care goes wrong in Georgia?

Max Blau

December 13, 2019 |

The Telegraph |

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Response Location: United States, Georgia

Without federal oversight, prisons are left to their own devices to determine what sort of health care they want to provide. That, combined with limited funding and resources, often leads to low-cost privatized health care that doesn’t necessarily have safeguards or patient-centered interests. While an increasingly complex issue, the response of privatized health care for inmates requires reform, but won’t get there unless the sheriffs that oversee these prisons embrace them.

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For sheriffs, healthcare for inmates can be a burden. For one doctor, it has been the opportunity of a lifetime.

Max Blau

December 12, 2019 |

Atlanta Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Georgia

As prison populations have increased dramatically since the 1980s, prisons have outsourced inmate health care to private companies, like CorrectHealth, to save money. While it is the most incentivizing when it comes to cost, this is only possible because private companies have to have the lowest bid – meaning they skimp on spending for inmates in the long run. The result has shown to be not just a decrease in the health care services offered to inmates, but more litigation for companies providing allegedly inadequate care.

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In Search of the Lost Pulse

Adina Florea

December 07, 2019 |

DoR |

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Response Location: Romania, Sibiu, Transylvania

A private healthcare facility in Romania is helping to bring specialty surgeries to the region's children by arranging for doctors from other parts of the nation and world to convene on a rotating, but regular, basis. The surgeons, many of whom specialize in pediatric corrective surgery for congenital heart defects, perform hundreds of surgeries per year financed by the Polisano Foundation.

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Counseling minus the counselor

Morgan Therrien

December 06, 2019 |

The Beacon Today |

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Response Location: United States, Florida

Online counseling websites that utilize the practice of cognitive behavioral therapy are helping teenagers and young adults access services they may need during challenging times. Psychologists do caution that these aren't replacements for face-to-face therapy, but that they do help when in-person options are not available or feasible.

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