In Loving Memory of Gracie: My Emotional Support Dog
BY KELVA EDMUNDS-WALLER, DNP, RN, CCM
As an adult, I have had three pets – Winnie, Roxie, and Gracie. My daughter was 5 years old when we got Winnie, a beautiful Labrador-golden retriever mix.
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Social and Political Activism Is One Solution to Prevent Avoidable Deaths of Black and Brown Babies in the United States
BY KELVA EDMUNDS-WALLER, DNP, RN, CCM, WITH NICOLE M. MEREDITH, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM
The United States of America, one of the world’s wealthiest and most technologically advanced countries, has a Black and Brown maternal and infant health crisis.
Baby Steps: Improving Clinical Documentation in Pediatrics
BY TINA R. MCDANIEL CHENG, MSN, RN, CCDS, AND LAUREN PFEIFER, PhD, RN, CCDS
Pediatric patients are not little adults. Due to their unique physiological and developmental needs, children often are diagnosed with medical conditions that differ substantially from their adult counterparts.
Pediatric Physician Advisors – A Critical Part of the Strategy for Healthy Hospital Operations
BY JULIET B. UGARTE HOPKINS, MD
Just as the role of physician advisors has come to the forefront of the healthcare world over the last decade and a half, so too has the subset of pediatric physician advisors in recent years.
“It Takes a Village”: Perinatal Care Managers and Community Doulas Work Together to Build Maternal Support
BY ALEXA HUGHES AND LAUREN BUCHWALD, BSN, RN, MSC
One does not have to search far to find that the United States is experiencing a maternal health crisis; a crisis that has continued to rise both during and in the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Resources to Assist in the Reduction of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
BY REBECCA PEREZ, MSN, RN, CCM, FCM
The health of mothers and children are interrelated and impacted by many factors.
Maternal Mortality in the United States
BY COLLEEN MORLEY, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN, FCM
The headline read “Olympic Gold Medalist, 32, dies in labor.”
Tori Bowie was an American track and field athlete who primarily competed in the long jump, 100 meters and 200 meters.
The CMSA Foundation: What’s In It For You?
The CMSA Foundation is a charitable, non-profit organization that aims to be the leading philanthropic organization dedicated to enhancing the practice of case management. The Foundation works relentlessly to raise money to fund case management research, practice improvement and public policy advocacy efforts. But how does that help you?
The Problematic Nature of Telehealth Treatment
BY JENNIFER CORREA-ELKINS, LCSW-C
The COVID-19 pandemic required technological modernization that changed the direction of mental healthcare.
A Community Partnership to Develop a Recuperative Care Facility
BY CHRISTOPHER WELLINS, MD, MS, FACP, RENEE FAY-LEBLANC, MD, FACP, AND COURTNEY PLADSEN, DNP
Maine Medical Center (MMC) is a 700-bed tertiary care facility located in Portland, Maine, and is the anchor hospital of the nine-hospital MaineHealth System. In 2012 we developed the Long Stay Intervention Workgroup (LSIW) as a way of getting all the right stakeholders together who were empowered to make decisions regarding achieving discharges for our most challenging patients.