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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortage s of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals. By filling vacancies in critical positions, temporary medical staff help maintain essential service and ensure continuity of patient care. Many healthcare facilities in the U.S.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there. Similarly, if a behavioral health patient looked like they had pneumonia, the warm handoff would go in the opposite direction.

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Good workplace support, leadership training can improve mental health, reduce burnout in health care professionals

Medical Xpress

Among health care professionals, the feeling of being supported in the workplace can protect them against adverse mental health and burnout, according to a new study published in CMAJ Open by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and medical staff at various hospitals across the UK.

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Health care policies are needed to support health care professionals' mental health, says study

Medical Xpress

Improvements in the lifestyle of health care professionals can help protect their mental health.