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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. By the end of 2021, some 21 months later, the physician burnout rate rose to an unprecedented high. WHY IT MATTERS.

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#LoveThyNeighbor – A Faith-Based Call for Vaccination

Health Populi

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) is urging Americans to “love thy neighbor” by getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Sister Mary Haddad wrote in an editorial published in Modern Healthcare, published on September 3, 2011. who have been anti-vaccine in the COVID era. Sister Mary is CEO and President of CHA.

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Burnout – A Threat to Our Health Care System?

AIHC

Written by: AIHC Blogger The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated a substantial increase in the workload of health care professionals leading to physical and mental distress among professionals resulting in an increase in burnout. spiked dramatically during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage

Kaiser Health News

25 ruling, which came in response to a 2011 class-action lawsuit eventually joined by 14 beneficiaries against the Department of Health and Human Services, will guarantee patients the right to appeal to Medicare for nursing home coverage if they were admitted to a hospital as an inpatient but were switched to observation care, an outpatient service.

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Supporting Youth Mental Health and the Critical Role of an Upstream Approach

HIT Consultant

According to the CDC , 42% of high school students felt so sad or hopeless that they could not engage in their regular activities for at least two weeks in 2021, an increase of 50% from 2011. That means an average classroom of 30 has three students attempting to end their lives each year.

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How Clinical Decision Support Can Help Alleviate Provider Burnout

HIT Consultant

New research from Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that 63% of physicians report at least one symptom of burnout, a drastic increase from 46% in 2011. In other cases, hospitals turn to travel nurses to alleviate understaffing, improve workflows, and reduce time spent on inefficient tasks.

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). More White Americans ranks COVID-19 as the top concern (29%) compared with financial (26%).