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2025 Commonwealth Fund Health Scorecard: What It Means for Nurses

Registered Nursing

Lowest-ranking states : Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and West Virginia These rankings consider both overall health outcomes and how equitably care is delivered. This progress is credited to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion and enhanced marketplace subsidies. led the nation with just 3.4%

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What Care Coordination Is and How To Implement It

Relias

There are different models for how integrated care is delivered, but care coordination makes all the difference. What is care coordination? Care coordination is the alignment of the various specialists responsible for a client’s care. Why is better care coordination so important?

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Making Sense of the Maze of Online Patient Portals

Minority Nurse

According to Ross, the 21st Century Cures Act , enacted by Congress in 2016, impacts many aspects of American healthcare, including mandating that patients access electronic health information (EHI). They may struggle to access their EHI, coordinate care, and communicate with providers. ”

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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers.

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Title V and Maternal Mortality: Federal Funding to Save Lives

Relias

Many of these causes are worsened by social determinants of health such as poverty, lack of access to quality health care, racism, and discrimination. Title V funding can play a vital role for states and territories in addressing maternal mortality and improving maternal health outcomes.