As the continuous Medicaid coverage policy unwinds, hospitals and health systems could encounter millions of newly uninsured patients. Becker s spoke with leaders at Memorial Healthcare System, Sanford Health and more to learn how they are preparing.
The chief of Memorial Primary Care for the Hollywood-based Memorial Healthcare System writes that her organization has begun noting social factors such as housing and food insecurity in patients' medical information, which is changing how doctors in the system treat their patients.
Forty years ago, as a nurse entering the profession, Maggie Hansen had to strive for the few opportunities available in a field with an excess of candidates. Today, as the chief nursing executive at Memorial Healthcare, she describes the scholarships, pay raises, training programs and other benefits the system has instituted to get nurses among a pandemic-wrought crisis-level shortage.