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Understanding and honoring the needs of Native American elders

American Nurse

More than a quarter of transports took over 5 hours to complete, with some mothers giving birth in ambulances and other patients dying enroute. Some patients avoided emergency care out of fear that they would be stranded for hours away from the reservation or be unable to pay their medical bills from a different facility.

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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), care coordination is “the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient’s care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services.”