Hennepin County Medical Center
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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Narrative Medicine Helps To Heal at HCMC
Apr 1, 2016 ||Syl Jones is planting the seed of narrative medicine—an approach that emphasizes the importance of patient stories in health care—into the minds of students and physicians at Hennepin County Medical Center.
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Labor Pains Are a Laughing Matter at HCMC
Mar 11, 2016 ||Hennepin County Medical Center, responding to patient requests and new availability of equipment in the United States, begins offering nitrous oxide as an option to manage pain during labor.
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Proposed regulations would dramatically narrow access to 340B, harming vulnerable patients and putting entire communities at risk of losing vital services.
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Essential Hospital Alum Joins NASA Expedition
Jul 17, 2015 ||A Hennepin County Medical Center former chief resident departs on a new mission to the International Space Station July 22.
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Association Announces Changes to Governing Boards
Jul 13, 2015 ||New chairs among leadership changes for association and Essential Hospitals Institute boards
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Hennepin County Medical Center found that better communication, workflow, and targeted quality improvement projects improved physician burnout, dissatisfaction, and retention.
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The second installment in this series, essential hospitals share strategies for overcoming cost, culture, and communication issues.
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Reinvesting ACO Savings to Address Social Determinants of Health
Nov 12, 2014 ||A recent Health Affairs article explores how Hennepin Health uses ACO savings from decreased ED visits, better primary care to help the homeless, mentally ill.
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How to Integrate Behavioral Health with Primary Care
Nov 4, 2014 ||Essential hospitals share strategies for overcoming siloes between behavioral health and physical health care.
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The Social Determinants of Health: Homelessness and Unemployment
Oct 24, 2014 ||These two prominent social factors directly affect health outcomes. Essential hospitals are supporting patients in these areas with PCMHs, medical respite programs, and employment and housing programs.
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Aquí Para Ti: Health Equity for Latino Teens
Aug 19, 2014 ||Hennepin County Medical Center's Aquí Para Ti/Here for You outpatient clinic provides aims to reduce health disparities for Latino teens using an integrated, bilingual, culturally competent approach to comprehensive youth development and primary health care
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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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Caring for the Underserved: Providers Do Whatever It Takes
Jan 30, 2014 ||Research Associate Janelle Schrag recounts interviews with four essential hospitals about their chronic disease programs.
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CMS Releases Bulletin on Super-utilizers
Jul 30, 2013 ||Document explores care delivery and payment models that help states care for challenging patients
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Winners recognized for successful, creative programs that boost patient care and meet community needs
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