Community health impact leader. Philanthropy, research, baking. Geeking out re: care access, QI, reproductive rights, brains. Let’s make things better.
ALS has taken my strength and my voice but I can still fly down a mountain. I was supposed to die 8 years ago. But I’m still here. And having an awesome time.
#NotTodayALS
#Maternalhealth was already precarious in rural communities, and now with cuts to #Medicaid the situation will only get worse.
Medicaid cuts threaten rural hospitals — and access to maternity care https://t.co/2oD4KwJxdz by @yabutaleb7 via @washingtonpost CC: @katybkoz
1/ New in @NEJM, we discuss the implications of the recent @CMS place-of-service code (outreach site/street) for delivering care to patients experiencing unsheltered homelessness across the US and necessary steps to help sustain and scale street medicine.
https://t.co/ltcN0eAYkq
1/ Health plans and systems are increasingly addressing patients’ social needs (like food 🍎, housing 🏡, and transportation 🚌). However, they often face regulatory hurdles when implementing social care programs. We break these barriers down in our latest @NEJM piece 🧵⬇️
News: Congress looking at narrow health package for March 8 deadline
wld NOT include
--PBM reforms
--Site neutral/hospital savings
--Price transparency
wld have community health centers, partial doctor pay relief
w/ @victoriaregisk
https://t.co/IJejXOehMv
“I really wish we’d spent the last two years revamping indoor ventilation. That way, our restaurants (and shops, schools, hospitals, and workplaces) would be much safer even during a massive wave.”
Thank you to everybody saying this out loud. And me, too.
https://t.co/Q0xsLnIcLU
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.”
-MLK Jr., March 25, 1966, annual meeting of Medical Committee for Human Rights.
57 years later, we are in the midst of overall worsening of health outcomes, especially for Black people.
Very excited to announce that I am recruiting participants for my first community-based, NIH-awarded study!
Looking for Hispanic/Latino/a/x and Black/African adults AND their family members experiencing anxiety, OCD, or depression to share their stories @bcm_ocd #psychtwitter
We’ve been eclipsed!
In 1923, Bryce Canyon experienced a partial eclipse during a total solar eclipse that passed along the Pacific coast. For our centennial year we’ve now come “full circle” with today’s “Ring of Fire” eclipse.
NPS Photo/Peter Densmore
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