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ATLANTA – Rose L. Horton came to the Atlanta for what was supposed to be a three-month interim job. Instead, she’s stayed five years and found her life’s work.
As executive director of Women and Infant Services at Emory Decatur Hospital, Horton, RN, has made it her mission to combat maternal mortality and morbidity. Her use of a simple hashtag, #notonmywatch, has helped draw attention to a health crisis underscored by a deep racial divide. In the United States, statistics show, Black women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.
Her work has received national attention, and Horton has been tapped by the Biden administration to participate in the Black Maternal Health Stakeholder Group, which will help guide the administration’s work in this area. The stakeholder group is part of a public-private partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the March of Dimes. Their focus: hospital-based qual
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During the height of the pandemic, many health care providers were forced to temporarily halt elective procedures in an attempt to slow down virus transmission and relieve hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients.
But before the pandemic, a new report shows U.S. hospitals may have unnecessarily performed too many elective procedures and tests, particularly among older adults.
The Lown Institute, a health care think tank, found more than a million tests and procedures performed in hospitals on Medicare patients from 2016-2018 met established criteria for overuse.
“These results are if anything the low end of the estimate,” said Dr. Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute. “It speaks to the power of habit, weak penetration of actual science and certainly a lot of prominent financial incentives for hospitals and doctors without any counter-balancing information that patients could use to push back.”
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