Catherine Cummings MD

Emergency Medicine Physician & Past President RI Medical Society @RIACEPnews @RIMedSoc @BrownEMres

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

How bad is it in your hospital? In your state?
Read interview with RI ACEP Prez, Dr. Dina Himelfarb in Boston Globe by Brian Amaral.

The storm is hitting now.

@RIMedSoc @AmerMedicalAssn @MarilynHeineMD

[Marilyn Heine @MarilynHeineMD]

Kudos, @texmed!

Gold carding is among prior auth reform principles of AMA + 16 other orgs AND agreed-to by health plans. 

But, insurers have largely not adhered to a statement they signed in 2018.

Stories of patient harm d/t prior auth delays were most compelling to lawmakers.

[Dr. Vin Gupta @VinGuptaMD]

I’ve practiced at the ICU bedside in WA, AZ and OH since Mar 2020, going with teams of skilled providers to areas of need.

Each time, we see the same story play out: lungs on the R ⬇️that could be saved by 2-doses of a vaccine.

[Kara Stavros, MD, FAAN, DipABLM @StavrosKara]

Great lineup of speakers and topics! 🧠 #neurotwitter #MedEd #neurology

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

@MerckLisa Thank you. 30years. that’s a lotta books for a lotta years.. I’m pretty sure you read them all also, which is mind blowing.

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

Busy is an understatement! Check the report to see what affects you in Rhode Island.

Advocacy matters.

Thanks to the Legislative Team and many, many RIMS members! @RIMedSoc

Get involved, be a member!

[Rhode Island Medical Society @RIMedSoc]

2021 Legislative Report for the membership
https://t.co/XPCSPvBww5

[katherine gregg @kathyprojo]

Unless I am reading this wrong, @GovDanMcKee today quietly, by executive order, re-upped the Covid "state of emergency" through September 1 that @GinaRaimondo 1st signed in March 9, 2020. And quarantine/isolation rules from March
https://t.co/GjRE7qgrmz
https://t.co/tsiIL7CNAL

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

@LizGoldbergMD If this is a RI doc, please ask if they will talk with me.

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

@MarilynHeineMD Look at RI legislation this year -finally after 3 + years. @AlynAdrain was the champion and saw it through.

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

Congratulations Dina!

Promoted
and
New President of RI American College of Emergency Physicians

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

@Alisonation Thank you. I am truly honored.

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

@NatalijaFarrell @Alisonation Thank you

[Liz Goldberg MD ScM @LizGoldbergMD]

Prescribed cefixime (gonorrhea treatment) to a patient on MassHealth (Medicaid).

Called back by pharmacist patient needs prior auth.

Alternative: patient must go to ER to get IM ceftriaxone!

Now wondering how many other Medicaid pts. not getting STI treated.

@CDCgov ⬇️

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

Is a massive gun range really needed on cape cod? Is this the best use of incredible land that there is? I don’t think so. @meganranney @GAGnoguns @capecodtimes

[Cape Cod Times @capecodtimes]

Sponsored by 350 Cape Cod and allied organizations, the rally will take place at the Forestdale Elementary School, located at 151 Route 130. https://t.co/3j28WhvkX6

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

@bradcollins53 @sargsyanz And just try to admit a patient without them.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The best way to get honest feedback is to reward people for giving it.

If you make it hard to tell you the truth, people take the easy way out.

When people have the courage to be candid, you can reinforce it with gratitude and curiosity.

https://t.co/GLDvTsDGOm @MellodyHobson

[Catherine Cummings MD @CCummingsRI]

@LizGoldbergMD No joke. There’s no way a person can recover with the sleep interruptions. And it doesn’t have to be that way. Why do hospitals weigh patients at 6am? Or much of anything before 7. Labs/med/X-rays all need a good review for sleep priority.

[Brian Amaral @bamaral44]

"It seems ridiculous that a patient could bleed to death because of a lack of blood,” a RI Hospital trauma surgeon says.

Yet that's the situation doctors worry about with a shortage that @RIBloodCenter calls a "blood emergency" https://t.co/IGRyZjgmx5

[Kara Stavros, MD, FAAN, DipABLM @StavrosKara]

Prior authorization can cause unnecessary, potentially life-threatening delays for patients with neurologic conditions. I join @AANmember in urging Congress to pass #HR3173, the Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act. #FixPriorAuth #AANadvocacy #neurotwitter