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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room. We’re already doing it in places like community health centers in New Mexico, rural clinics in North Carolina, and urban hospital systems in Chicago. You don’t have to build it from scratch.

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Improving Scholarship in a Community Hospital Residency Program with a Curriculum featuring a Structured Roadmap, Indi [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

This study aims to evaluate the impact of implementing a structured roadmap to enhance resident scholarly activity within a specific family medicine residency program. Results Between July 2016 and 2021, thirty-one Family-Medicine residents graduated from the program.

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Implementation of a novel linkage of primary care electronic medical record data with hospital data in South Eastern Ontario [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Currently, primary care data, community data, and hospital data are not linked in Ontario, resulting in a disconnect in continuity of care. We demonstrated the capacity to implement data-drive QI approaches to support patient care across health care sectors using the novel merged datasets.

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Rural Hospital Futures in Colorado - Rapid Review and Environmental Scan for Policy Opportunities [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Since 2005, over 180 rural hospitals have closed across the United States and 800 rural hospitals remain at high risk of closure. Nearly four million rural Americans lost a hospital in their county between 2005 and 2021. Rural hospitals with particular attention to Colorado. Study Design. Outcome Measures. Conclusions.

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Staff perspectives of a novel integrated community care hub in an urban underserved population (UK) [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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"We feel alone and not listened to": Somali, Hmong and Latin American Parents Perspectives on Pediatric Serious Illness [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Listening to families from these communities about their experiences could identify modifiable barriers to quality pediatric serious illness care and facilitate the development of potential improvements. Setting: Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area. Intervention: NA. Outcome Measures: NA.

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Caring for the underserved: The National Health Service Corps

The Health Policy Exchange

Envisioned by Seattle pediatrician Abraham Bergman, MD as a way to recruit idealistic young physicians to "doctor deficient" communities throughout the U.S., Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.