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How Can Caregivers Support Patients Without Suffering Themselves? An Interview with Judy Long

A hospital chaplain discusses how to both protect and open our hearts to loved ones

Today, SevenPonds speaks with Judy Long, an educator and chaplain at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco. In her role as a chaplain, she communicates with patients, families, caregivers, physicians and nurses to find the best possible care plan. Judy … Continue reading

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A New Law Requires Hospitals to Notify Patients of Outpatient Status

The Notice Act closes a Medicare loophole that left many families in debt

An 85-year-old woman named Elizabeth Cannon spent six and a half days in a hospital after being injured in a fall. Later, she transferred to a nursing home for five months to receive rehabilitation treatment. Cannon assumed that her hospital stay and nursing … Continue reading

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Suicidal Doctors: What Happens When Caretakers Need Help Themselves

In the wake of doctors committing suicide, hospitals focus on healing the healers

It’s easy to forget that doctors and nurses are people too. Like their ill patients, they get tired; they get hungry; they get frustrated; and they get discouraged. Working so closely with illness and death is a draining experience for … Continue reading

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What is Collaborative Patient-Centered Care? An Interview with Dr. M. Grace Laurencin

A primary care physician discusses the details of patient-centered care

Today, SevenPonds spoke with Mercedes Grace Laurencin, M.D. M.P.H. about the interpersonal, social and psychological aspects of providing primary care as a physician. Her retainer medical practice, based in Santa Cruz, California, places special emphasis on accessibility issues for elderly and … Continue reading

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Hospitals on the Verge of Paying Massive Fines from Medicare for Their Mistakes

Medicare is moving in the right direction with a plan to give big fines to hospitals with the highest rates of potentially fatal infections and avoidable injuries

Although the amount of potentially fatal infections and avoidable injuries that happen in hospitals is slowly decreasing, Medicare will soon be charging massive fines to around 750 hospitals with the highest rates of both. The estimated total for these fines … Continue reading

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What is a Chaplain? An Interview with David Franzblau

David Franzblau talks about Chaplains and how they help those who are terminally ill.

Today, SevenPonds speaks with David Franzblau, a Chaplain currently working at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California. He will answer a few of our questions about being a chaplain and will offer some tips that anyone can do. Gabriella: … Continue reading

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