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Back to school: Nurse seeks training to help bridge mental health care gap in rural NC

NC Health News

By Jennifer Fernandez As the mental health crisis for adults and kids worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ivy Bagley decided to go back to school for one more certification. I decided during the pandemic, when we could not get kids seen for mental health, I wanted to be part of the solution, Bagley said. She graduated in December.

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Raising Awareness of aTTP in the African American Community, a Provider’s Perspective

Black Health Matters

Black Health Matters: Could you tell us about your day to day practice and what you treat on a typical day. I also primarily run a health services research program that’s looking at the big picture of how we care for patients with blood clotting disorders, including aTTP. How can we work to eliminate them?

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.

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How Health Systems are Losing Contact with their Clinicians

The Health Care Blog

By JEFF GOLDSMITH Jeff wrote this article for Hospitals & Health Networks in the July 5, 1998 edition. In the space of a single generation, health services have evolved from a cottage industry into a substantial corporate enterprise. He republished it this week on his substack calling it a 27th anniversary edition.

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Martin County seeks operator to bring rural hospital back to life

NC Health News

The hospital was later placed into bankruptcy, a move that operator Quorum Health attributed to financial challenges related to declining population and utilization trends. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC Chapel Hill. But all of those hospitals were still functioning when they made the switch.

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“Health Care” vs. “Healthcare” Signals Change Greater Than Grammar

The Health Care Blog

By MICHAEL MILLENSON The New Yorker House Style Joins The Internet Age announced the magazines daily newsletter under the byline of Andrew Boynton, whose appropriately old-fashioned title was Head of Copy. But what about health care vs. healthcare? Health care is our style, a spokesperson wrote me in an email.

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Older and disabled Medicaid recipients, advocates ‘extraordinarily worried’ about potential Medicaid cuts 

NC Health News

However, most of the Medicaid expansion population works already in low-wage jobs where health insurance is not offered. Meanwhile, the state spent more money on administrative costs to run the program than they did on health care expenses. Medicaid funds the health care of more than 3 million people in North Carolina.