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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Esther Conteh

Minority Nurse

Meet Esther Conteh, BSN, MSN, Associate Vice President, Care Management at VNS Health, overseeing clinical care of VNS Health CHOICE Medicaid Advantage Plus (MAP) , and Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care (MLTC) plans. What is your title, and where do you work? That’s one thing I love about this work.

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

The project included use of the organization’s telemedicine AnyWhere Care (AWC) web application, which patients can download to their smartphones. doi:10.1136/bmj.m865 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The application then feeds data to the patient’s electronic health record (EHR). Backhouse A, Ogunlayi F. BMC Geriatr.

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2023 Healthcare Trends: Are You Ready?

Relias

A McKinsey & Company survey shows that up to $265 billion worth of care services could shift from traditional healthcare facilities to the home by 2025. Department and Human Services found that Medicare visits conducted through telehealth in 2020 increased 63-fold, from about 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 Penalties rise to $1M.