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What Role Can Medical Centers Play in the Equitable Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines?
BMC model may serve as a blueprint for other medical centers committed to increasing access to vaccines through community-based interventions.
What is Spiritual Distress? Once Identified, Chaplaincy Could Be a Bridge to Mental Health Treatment
Integrating spiritual care into primary care addresses spiritual distress in immigrant and refugee patients, study finds.
BMC Pilots Training Program to Improve Post-Acute Care for Patients with Substance Use Disorder
Training program extends education to skilled nursing facilities to reduce discrimination and increase acceptance rates of patients with SUD.
Tinted Sunscreen Options Shown to Be Incompatible With Darker Skin Tones
Even for sunscreen products with multiple shades, researchers find lack of shade diversity.
Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Are Routinely Rejected from Post-Acute Care Facilities in the Northeast, Study Finds
New Research from the Grayken Center for Addiction Suggests Ongoing Discrimination Against Patients with OUD, Despite State and Federal Guidelines.
Community Insights Survey Debunks Three Misconceptions About Immigrant and Refugee Health Care Engagement
The Immigrant & Refugee Health Center, the Immigrant Task Force, and NRC Health team up to survey BMC patients who were born outside the U.S.
Building Capacity for Patients, Hospitals, and Communities to Address Obstetric Racism
A new partnership between BMC and Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC aims to build understanding of racism in Black birthing patients’ care and experience.
Telehealth: Bridging Gaps in Care or Perpetuating Health Inequities?
New research shows Telehealth has become a "double-edged sword" when it comes to health equity and access to technology.
Provider and Patient Satisfaction with Conscious Anesthesia During Ocular Surgery Found to Differ
Research indicates that providers and patients often disagree on what defines adequate sedation and comfort during eye surgery.
Access and Timely Care Improve for Racially Diverse Children When Federally Qualified Health Centers Integrate Behavioral Health
Three community-based health centers used the TEAM UP model, leading to more behavioral health screenings than the statewide average.
BMC Launches First Maternal Health Addiction Fellowship
As overdoses become leading cause of pregnancy-related mortality, new fellowship training brings specialists to Obstetric-Addiction Medicine.
Reducing Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Donation
How BMC is addressing the gap of living donor kidney transplantation amongst Black Americans.
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Cops and partners — a kidney donation made them something else: bonded for life
Two local cops who once worked together became a team again when Peter Petrides donated his kidney to Mark Kalinowski. They share their incredible story of organ donation with The Boston Globe.
Pregnancy-related deaths were already rising in the US. Then COVID arrived and made things worse.
Pregnancy-related deaths jumped during the pandemic, with Black women suffering the highest mortality rates. BMC obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Tejumola Adegoke, joins The Boston Globe to weigh in on racial inequities in maternal mortality.
Expanded Child Tax Credit ‘has to be in’ final version of Build Back Better Act, Sen. Ed Markey says
Dr. Lucy Marcil, founder of StreetCred and pediatrician at BMC joins Senator Markey, Allison Bovell-Ammon of Children's HealthWatch, and Julio Shum, a patient navigator in pediatrics at BMC as they advocate for the extension of the Child Tax Credit at a press conference hosted at Boston Medical Center.
Your unvaccinated child is going back to school. What type of mask should they wear?
BMC's associate hospital epidemiologist, Dr. Cassandra Pierre shares insight into the best masks that children can wear to stay protected from COVID-19, especially while they remain ineligible to receive a vaccine, as they head back to school this year.
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