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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Honeywell, Atrium Health, Tepper Sports & Entertainment and the Charlotte Motor Speedway have announced a unique public-private partnership with the State of North Carolina, and backed by Gov. Roy Cooper, to support the goal of 1 million COVID-19 vaccinations by July 4, 2021. In collaboration with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, these organizations aim to unleash their combined strength to vaccinate as many frontline workers, members of the general public and of underserved communities as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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Intervention led by nurses resulted in increase in ACP discussions
Advance care planning interventions for vulnerable older adults can be encouraged through the use of nurse navigators and the introduction of a health care professional-facing EHR discussion and documentation interface. According to results from a randomized clinical trial, such an intervention resulted in higher rates of advanced care planning compared to usual care and contributed to the delivery of patient-centric care.
The study, by Jennifer Gabbard, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and colleagues, was published in
While studies have shown that advanced care planning (ACP) can reduce hospitalizations, in-hospital deaths, and health care costs, Gabbard and colleagues pointed out that a number of patient and health care professional barriers have resulted in the underutilization of ACP.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Jan. 11, 2021 - Most doctors would agree that advanced care planning (ACP) for patients, especially older adults, is important in providing the best and most appropriate health care over the course of a patient s life.
Unfortunately, the subject seldom comes up during regular clinic visits.
In a study conducted by doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Health, only 3.7% of primary care physicians had this conversation with their patients as part of their normal care. Yet in the same study, the researchers found that a new approach involving specially trained nurses substantially increased the frequency of doctors initiating ACP discussions with their patients.
Vaccines will begin arriving in North Carolina’s state prisons this month.
Some staff members are already beginning to receive doses, while incarcerated people in the same age demographic wait.
As the number of new novel coronavirus cases shattered records last week, topping over 10,000 new cases on each of several days, North Carolina is beginning to enter Phase 1b of its vaccination plan.
Frontline health care workers and people who live and work in long-term care settings, such as nursing homes, have been given the opportunity to get vaccinated. This includes health care staff who work in prisons and jails. State prison health care workers began receiving the vaccine on Jan. 4, according to an internal Department of Public Safety document obtained by North Carolina Health News.