pediatrics
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Clinical Care
Redesigning Care Management for Medically Complex Children
Children with complex medical needs represent more than half of all hospitalized children and 82% of hospital days. A new...
Strategy
Medicaid 'Unwinding' Makes Other Public Assistance Harder to Get
Low-income families that need safety-net services, such as food and cash assistance, have become collateral damage.
Clinical Care
Northwell Investing $500M in Pediatric Behavioral Health Initiative
The health system is building a 200,000-square-foot facility that will integrate behavioral health and physical health for pediatric patients.
Innovation
Precision Medicine Tech Helps Doctors Zero In On Diseases And Treatments
At Valley Children?s Hospital, Jeremy Woods is digging into a patient?s genes and developing databases that uncover how diseases are...
Supply Chain
No Easy Fix for U.S. Drug Shortages
Pharmaceutical shortages are jeopardizing care quality, patient safety.
Nursing
A Third of Schools Don't Have a Nurse. Here's Why That's a Problem.
Meanwhile, the nation is facing high rates of chronic illnesses among K-12 students, such as diabetes and asthma.
Nursing
Training Nurses in Suicide Prevention
Hackensack Meridian Health is training nurses systemwide to effectively evaluate young suicidal patients.
Clinical Care
How to Address the Relationship Between Health Equity and Patient Safety
'You basically cannot have patient safety without health equity,' says Yale New Haven Health executive.
Innovation
Dartmouth Health Uses Telemedicine, Virtual Learning to Help With Difficult Births
The New Hampshire health system is using a virtual health program to train rural providers to handle difficult births, while...
Innovation
West Virginia Targets Crowded ERs With New Pediatric Behavioral Health Program
Coordinated by Community Care of West Virginia and Aetna Better Health for West Virginia, the program will provide on-demand emergency...
Innovation
Video: HealthLeaders Weekly Wrap
The Weekly Wrap, HealthLeaders' video series, brings you a quick look at what we're covering around the healthcare industry.
Innovation
The Exec: Stanford's Tanja Gruber Says Innovation is Taking Pediatric Cancer Care to New Heights
The chief of pediatric hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplantation at Stanford Medicine Children's Health says new ideas in immunotherapy,...