Healing within the healthcare community starts with empathy

Healing within the healthcare community starts with empathy

Editor’s note: Adrienne Boissy is chief medical officer for Qualtrics and a practicing neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic. Violence against caregivers is widespread and an increasing concern for us in the healthcare community. The deadly shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is just the latest attack to make national headlines. Earlier that same day, June 1, a security officer was fatally shot […]

To report or not to report? CMS COVID quality plan prompts questions

To report or not to report? CMS COVID quality plan prompts questions

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic battered Sanford Health, the health system rededicated itself to quality efforts, racing to address concerns and change processes in real time and to report patient safety data. “We believe that quality needs to be maintained, regardless of conditions and the situation,” said Dr. Jeremy Cauwels, the Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based health system’s chief physician. “It’s […]

We Hold These Truths

We Hold These Truths

BY KIM BELLARD It’s July 4th – Independence Day for those of you who remember your U.S. history.  There’s already too much talk about loss of rights, political tyranny, militias, even succession, and I don’t want to wade any further into those troubled waters.  But I thought I could at least try to reimagine what a Declaration of Independence might […]

Crowdsourced Data on Overdoses Pinpoints Where to Help

Crowdsourced Data on Overdoses Pinpoints Where to Help

Renuka Rayasam EL PASO, Texas — Men lined up outside the Corner of Hope, a homeless resource center, eyeing free supplies on plastic shelves inside a white van. Some wanted bags with toiletries or condoms, but others took kits that help them safely use drugs or naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medicine. Gilbert Shepherd, an outreach worker for Punto de […]

Why Kansas will be a bellwether in abortion fight

Why Kansas will be a bellwether in abortion fight

In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, President Biden pointed to the November elections, saying, “This fall, Roe is on the ballot.”  But in Kansas, abortion rights are on the ballot even sooner.   Kansans will vote on a state constitutional amendment on abortion on Aug. 2, setting the state up as a key bellwether for how […]

How the fall of Roe v. Wade could impact abortion access around the world

How the fall of Roe v. Wade could impact abortion access around the world

Abortion rights activists say the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade will reverberate around the world, possibly restricting access to the procedure in other countries and weakening the global movement for reproductive rights.  As part of the so-called ‘Green Wave’ movement that started in Argentina, majority-Catholic countries across Latin America — including Colombia and Mexico — have […]

COVID-19 news and stats

Some COVID-19 news updates. 66.5% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. 12.09 billion doses have been administered globally, 5.74 million COVID-19 vaccines are administered each day. Only 17.6% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose. There have been approximately 550 million cases of COVID-19 globally and 88 million in […]