Health literacy is the ability to obtain, read, understand, and use healthcare information to make appropriate health decisions and follow...
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Patients, Staff, Administrators: What Each of Us Can Do to Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs)
We hear so often how "we all have a role to play in reducing healthcare associated infections." From washing our hands to advocating for policy...
This week we continue our series on our New Year's resolution: Becoming a more empowered patient! This step provides some guidelines to help make...
At no other time in history has the patient had access to the amount of information about illness, had the legal and societal (and financial) rights...
The weeks between mid-September and mid-October has been National Hispanic Heritage Month since the late 1980s. During this month, the nation takes...
To recognize MRSA Awareness Month through October, here are 5 critical facts about MRSA that everyone needs to know.
How do you put an economic value on a human life? Why would you ever want to? As difficult as this quantification may be, it is a necessary practice...
In today's healthcare marketplace, it is growing commonplace to consider patients as customers - and the shoe fits, so to speak. Patients do have...
Today we pulled together a few of our previous posts about patient safety in honor of Patient Safety Awareness Week. We believe that all our posts...
With World Cancer Day this Saturday, we dedicate this post to those patients facing a cancer diagnosis. As with any serious disease, the many types...
Medical researchers have recently placed more emphasis on the non-medical conditions that impact patient health and outcomes. Collectively known as...
One of the most universally-recognized impacts from the colonization of North and South America is the horrific de-population of indigenous peoples...