Episode 36: Improving Black Maternal Health Outcomes
Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine
APRIL 22, 2024
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As 2024 approaches, we will continue working to improve healthcare quality and patient safety. To better understand the biggest challenges and opportunities facing healthcare systems, we surveyed a small group of symplr customers about their quality priorities for 2024. The results revealed four major themes:
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But for the best pregnancy outcomes, support shouldn’t stop — or start — with care access alone. Being in the know of how these benefits can help improve the health outcomes of your employees is the first step. Fertility benefits make it possible for employees to access treatments like IVF.
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Vincent Guilamo-Ramos Offers Healthy Nudge on Policy: ‘We Can Do Better’
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To Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, the monumental costs of health inequity—declining health outcomes and escalating financial expenditures—are on a collision course to finally break the U.S. health care system, so staying that course simply isn’t an option.
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Understanding Social Determinants of Health
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How Nurses Can Influence Health Equity
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The Relentless School Nurse: A Governor’s Proclamation for School Nurse Day 2023
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Focus on obesity treatment for lasting lifestyle change
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When Facing Language Barriers, Having the Same Home Care Nurse Improves Outcomes
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Health Disparities and Black Communities
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Moreover, the long history of inequitable health outcomes among Black people reflects the abuses faced during slavery, segregation, mass incarceration, and their persistent legacies.’
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