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BMC Makes Major Investment in Fund Targeting Social Determinants
Jul 27, 2017 ||Boston Medical Center’s contribution will help finance new housing, retail, and job creation in neighborhoods where its patients live and work.
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Park Rx: A New Resource for Population Health
Dec 9, 2016 ||Essential hospitals can turn to a new resource for prescribing physical activity and time outdoors: Park Rx, or Park Prescriptions.
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Food Insecurity, Health Equity, and Essential Hospitals
Jun 29, 2016 ||This brief summarizes the challenges that food-insecure patients face and the measures hospitals can take at the patient, system, and community levels to help improve food security.
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Study: Essential Hospitals Remain Essential after Reform
Jun 23, 2016 ||The new BMC study underscores “the importance of continued support for safety-net and minority-serving hospitals as national reform unfolds."
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Hospital Helps Low-Income Families Receive Tax Credits
May 6, 2016 ||This tax season, employees and volunteers at Boston Medical Center turned financial advisers, helping return more than $400,000 to low-income families.
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Essential Hospitals Combat Opioid Abuse
Feb 23, 2016 ||Over the past several years, opioid abuse has become a widespread and urgent public health concern in the United States, and essential hospitals are taking steps to prevent misuse and promote better prescription drug management.
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BMC Explores Virtual World for Diabetes Education
Dec 11, 2015 ||The hospital has received a $3.5 million grant to research the effectiveness of virtual technology for diabetes self-management among vulnerable women.
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Top chefs put healthful spin on fast food as essential hospitals work to reduce food deserts in their communities
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The Social Determinants of Health: Food Insecurity
Sep 29, 2014 ||Food insecurity may be the most significant social determinant of health for essential hospital patients. Read how BMC is prioritizing this issue.
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The third in a series of waiver-related briefs, this research brief summarizes perspectives from hospital leaders in Massachusetts, California, and Texas.
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Recent journal articles explore interventions to reduce readmissions, uncover barriers to recovery for vulnerable adults, decrease emergency department utilization, and more.
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CMS Announces Innovation Award Recipients
Jul 14, 2014 ||CMS announced a second batch of prospective recipients for Health Care Innovation Awards (round 2). The 27 new recipients include four members of America’s Essential Hospitals. Awards will be used to reduce costs and improve care delivery models for Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP patients.
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The Gage Awards Program honors and shares the outstanding work of members of America’s Essential Hospitals. Winners are recognized for successful and creative programs that boost patient care and meet community needs.
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BMC Releases Update to Project RED
Jun 6, 2014 ||Boston Medical Center has released an update to Project RED, their toolkit focused on discharge safety and reducing hospital readmissions. Included is a new chapter that provides guidance to hospitals on how to best integrate family caregivers into the discharge plan.
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Boston Medical Center physicians can now prescribe subsidized annual memberships to Hubway, Boston's bike-sharing program. Through the program, enrollees pay $5 for an annual membership compared to the normal cost of $85 and are allowed unlimited rides that last 60 minutes or less.
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Apr 21, 2014 ||As one of the hospitals on the front lines of last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, Boston Medical Center this year has taken several steps to honor victims of the tragedy.
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Boston Medical Center has teamed up with the City of Boston to subsidize annual memberships to Hubway, the city's bike-sharing service. The normally $85 membership is available to eligible low-income Bostonians for $5.
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Waivers Catalyze Integration and Clinical Improvement
Apr 14, 2014 ||Learn how delivery system transformation initiatives helped BMC improve quality
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Integrating Care Delivery in Four Essential Hospitals
Mar 20, 2014 ||
In a recent study, two geriatrics clinicians at Boston Medical Center explored the experiences of other geriatrics health care providers caring for an older family member. They found that geriatrics clinicians experience complex and unique stressors, including emotional and professional benefits and challenges.
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How to Combat Alarm Fatigue
Feb 25, 2014 ||A Boston Medical Center pilot program successfully reduced audible alarms and improved patient safety across six weeks, leading the hospital to implement the strategy on all inpatient medical/surgical units.
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Members Hospitals Lead Community Violence Prevention
Sep 10, 2013 ||AHA resource developed as part of the Community Connections Initiative
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Local hospitals organized their staffs and emergency departments into high-capacity treatment centers
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America’s Essential Hospitals Elects New Member Leaders
Jul 2, 2013 ||Notes "valuable contributions" member volunteers make to success of association's work
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Through research, education and clinical services, Boston Medical Center’s (BMC’s) Program for Integrative Medicine and Health Care Disparities is achieving a range of positive outcomes, including increasing access to integrative therapies – such as acupuncture, massage therapy, and yoga – and creating safer national and international policies for the development of alternative therapies.
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BMC aims to equip victims of violence with the skills they need to avoid future high-risk situations
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Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts Essential Hospitals
Apr 16, 2009 ||Insight from Boston Medical Center and Cambridge Health Alliance
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