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Mental Health Respite Facilities Are Filling Care Gaps in Over a Dozen States

American Nurse

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing “988,” or the Crisis Text Line by texting “HOME” to 741741. If she hadn’t found the program, she said, “I don’t think I would have come out of 2020.”

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Telehealth: Navigating healthcare delivery in the new normalized space

American Nurse

The sudden and unexpected emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic presented many new challenges for healthcare delivery in 2020. References Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Medicare telemedicine health care provider fact sheet. March 17, 2020. Let’s take it back for a moment. COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act: Legislators Want to Hear from Nurses 

Daily Nurse

NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. Yet, despite the high-quality healthcare NPs provide to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, barriers still exist within the programs that prevent the effective and efficient delivery of care.

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

These children account for one-third of total healthcare spending and 40% of Medicaid’s total spending on kids,” according to a Children’s Hospital Association news release. The programs may also address mental health needs by connecting families with social services. This accounted for a 2.6%

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Researchers Aim to Improve Cancer Outcomes Among People Experiencing Homelessness

Consult QD

As of January 2020, there were 580,466 people across the U.S. There may be underlying physical or mental health issues on top of that, making navigating a complex health system especially trying.” experiencing homelessness , with more than 50 percent of individuals lacking any shelter at all.

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Crusading for Mothers

American Nurse

Primarily a rural state, Missouri has ten rural counties with the highest rates of maternal morbidity (Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, 2021; The Missouri Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review, 2018). The second federal policy is Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension (passed in Missouri 7/2023).

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How to Get Started as a Nurse Advocate Around Key Issues Like Scope of Practice

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Some current examples of issues that nurse advocates are working on through federal legislative change are workplace violence, mandatory overtime, faculty shortages, workforce development, and modernizing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payment systems for nursing care. and Virginia.

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