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Many Safety Net, Rural Hospitals Do Not Properly Address Social Needs
Safety net hospitals, critical care hospitals, and rural hospitals often do less than needed to address the social determinants of health of their vulnerable populations, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows.
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How Case Managers Can Improve SDOH Assessments
Case managers can use several different tactics to improve their assessments of social determinants of health. These may require extra time, but they can yield big rewards in terms of patients’ health and preventing readmissions.
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Case Management Leaders Advocate for Improved SDOH Assessments
Improving social determinants of health assessments will help the healthcare industry evolve and improve medical care and efficiency. Case management leaders should collect data to show hospital leaders how their work with social determinants can help a health system meet its goals.
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To Understand a Patient’s Housing Status, Ask the Right Questions
Staff at every point of contact should be alert to relevant patient needs, including housing status, food insecurity, and ability to pay. All these go into making medicine human.
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Effectively Intervening with Patients Facing Housing Instability
There is a moral and humanitarian case for healthcare organizations to engage on the housing issue, but there also is a business case.
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Federal Council Aims to Cut U.S. Homeless Rate by 25% by 2025
This is part of a long-term plan to end homelessness.
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NIH Funds Research Network on Harm Reduction
Grants will support scientists studying novel tactics to prevent opioid overdose deaths.
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SAMHSA Seeks Opioid Treatment Program Expansion
Under a proposed rule change, the agency wants to tear down more barriers to addiction treatment.
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Data Indicate Hospital Stays Are Longer, Causing Discharge Delays
As patients wait longer to take the next step along their journey through the healthcare continuum, costs mount for providers.
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Clinicians Are Ethically Obligated to Consider Financial Side of Care
Clinicians should include the cost of care in discussions, help patients access charity care or financial counseling, and screen patients for social determinants of health.