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Making Giant Strides in Maternity Health Through Baby Steps
To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are kicking off a special month-long podcast series with our strategic alliance partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our first episode, which is all about the Baby Steps Maternity Program and its mission to support women throughout every step of their pregnancy journey.
To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are kicking off a special month-long podcast series with our strategic alliance partner, UPMC Health Plan.
Welcome to our first episode, which is all about the Baby Steps Maternity Program and its mission to support women throughout every step of their pregnancy journey: before, during, and after childbirth. Today we are speaking with Diana P. Byas, MSN, ACRN, CCM, manager, Maternity Care Management with the Insurance Services Division at UPMC Health Plan, to learn more about this wonderful offering from UPMC Health Plan; it’s top-notch caring team of maternity care managers, all registered nurses, licensed social workers, and outreach specialists; the importance of promoting equitable maternity care among minority populations; and why community collaboration is vital to improving maternal health outcomes.
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Public Hospitals More Likely to Extend Unprofitable Services After 340B Participation, Study Finds
May 10th 2024Public hospitals were significantly more likely to sustain access to unprofitable services following 340B Drug Pricing Program participation, while nonprofit hospitals were mostly unaffected, according to a recent study.
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Frameworks for Advancing Health Equity: Urban Health Outreach
May 9th 2024In the series debut episode of "Frameworks for Advancing Health Equity," Mary Sligh, CRNP, and Chelsea Chappars, of Allegheny Health Network, explain how the Urban Health Outreach program aims to improve health equity for individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Health Equity, Accessibility Essential to Supporting Women Affected by Hemophilia
May 10th 2024Due to often being overlooked as only carriers of hemophilia, the review authors sought to highlight the needs of female caretakers for patients with the disorder and the possibility of women themselves being affected by it.
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