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When a Virus Is the Cure

Nicola Twilley

December 14, 2020 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: United States, Carlsbad, California

A new sort of medical therapy, known as bacteriophage therapy, uses viruses that attack bacteria to treat and potentially cure drug-resistant infections. Although this type of treatment is "a long way from being a standard treatment," it has been shown to work in a handful of cases.

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The German hospital tackling delirium in patients with dementia

Priti Salian

November 23, 2020 |

British Medical Journal |

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Response Location: Germany, Berlin

To better serve patients struggling with dementia, a hospital in Berlin established a department of geriatrics and began screening "patients for cognitive impairments upon admission, providing them with trained volunteers for personal support and non-pharmacological interventions to prevent delirium." This course of action has helped the hospital to diagnose cases earlier and offer dementia-specific care for patients, which consequently has reduced the prescribing of drugs for these patients.

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Rural Hospitals Are Dying. This One Saved Itself—And Its Community

Max Blau

November 09, 2020 |

Time Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Clinch County, Georgia

Rural hospitals across the country often struggle to stay open in states where Medicaid has not been expanded, but a method known as "swing beds" has helped two critical-access hospitals in Georgia to avoid this fate. This method, which allows hospitals to swing beds from "only patients in need of acute care to those who no longer require the emergency department but still needed more treatment before a nursing home," allowed for the hospitals to pay off debt and expand services.

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King County hospitals are making sure patients can vote

Hannah Weinberger

October 30, 2020 |

Crosscut |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Hospitals in King County launched programs to help inpatients register to vote and cast their ballot. Some adopted VotER, a program that sets up voter registration kiosks and QR codes that can be scanned for voting information. If inpatients don't have someone who can bring them their ballots, hospital staff can print them online. Since the state has universal mail-in voting with ballot boxes that anyone can drop ballots in, hospital staff also helped deliver ballots. With health care policy often on the ballot, helping patients vote is another way healthcare professionals care for their patients.

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Lessons learned in real time at rural hospitals during pandemic

Lyle Muller

October 16, 2020 |

IowaWatch |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Osceola, Iowa

Small hospitals in rural regions in America have quickly had to learn how to cope with the influx of COVID-19 cases during the pandemic. While many lessons have been learned, in Iowa, hospital personnel have seen success from joining forces with municipal, school district, business, and other civic leaders, as well as allocating stimulus funding toward safety steps.

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COVID-19 delays, but doesn't stop Albert Lea, Minnesota, from replacing lost hospital services

Lyle Muller

October 16, 2020 |

IowaWatch |

Podcast |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Albert Lea, Minnesota

During the coronavirus pandemic, leaders and administrators of small hospitals have learned through their failures about the limitations of their facilities. While some of these hospitals have relied on streamlining and efficiency to maximize the quality of care, it has impacted their ability to react to less predictable events.

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Doctor Offices In Wisconsin Step In To Help Register Voters

Maayan Silver

October 14, 2020 |

NPR |

Podcast |

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Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

VotERdoctors partners with doctors, clinics, community centers, and hospitals to register voters. Staff can wear badges with a QR code that patients can scan with their cellphone, which takes them to a webpage that offers information about how to register to vote, including a live help line if the patient gets stuck. Some facilities, such as Progressive Community Health Centers in Milwaukee, send monthly text messages to their patients to remind them to register. VotER is being used by more than 300 U.S. hospitals and about 40,000 patients have gotten help registering or requesting ballots.

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Community Insurance Bridges Health Care Gap

Nakisanze Segawa

September 13, 2020 |

Global Press Journal |

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Response Location: Uganda

Uganda has introduced community health insurance plans that helps serve those who do not find the free health insurance suffienct but find private insurance too expensive. Although it doesn't appease everyone and some drop out after joining, it has still served more than 10,000 people since implementation.

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Health workers who deliver: LUTH's resolve to help COVID-19 positive mothers give birth safely

Chibuike Alagboso Adaobi Ezeokoli

September 02, 2020 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

When the reality of the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Nigeria, health officials at Lagos University Teaching Hospital prioritized preparatory training and created a COVID-19 volunteer team of responders. These efforts proved especially crucial when the need arose to provide care to women who were pregnant and positive for COVID-19. Although it was difficult to assemble a team who would handle the at-risk deliveries, the first attempt proved successful and the team has been able to expand their services since then.

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In Safe Hands: First complex heart surgery at Reddington Hospital a huge success despite COVID-19

Chibuike Alagboso Adaobi Ezeokoli

August 26, 2020 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Victoria Island, Lagos State

A partnership between a Nigerian hospital and a cardiac interventionist group is helping to "bridge the gap in availability of quality cardiac and critical care services" for patients who are in need of care. Although the system was first tested unexpectedly during the coronavirus pandemic, it has shown early success in building and training local specialists to complete cardiac surgeries.

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