🔔 CMS Guidance on Firearm Safety Counseling for Families: A Step Forward in Youth Health and Safety 🔔 The Biden administration has taken a significant step by allowing Medicaid providers to counsel families on firearm safety, aiming to reduce preventable gun-related injuries and deaths among children. This new CMS guidance permits discussions on safe storage practices, helping healthcare providers make firearm safety conversations as routine as those around car seats, water safety, or substance use. Research shows that safe firearm storage—unloaded, locked, and stored separately from ammunition—can dramatically reduce accidental injuries, suicides, and other tragedies in youth. At Northwell Health in New York, patients are already asked about firearm access, and gun locks are provided to families in need. With Medicaid now supporting these safety conversations, more providers have the resources to start these critical discussions with parents and caregivers. For healthcare leaders and public health advocates, this new measure is a step toward addressing gun violence as a public health issue, bringing safety and prevention to the forefront of youth healthcare. Although this guidance currently applies only to Medicaid, it opens the door to considering more comprehensive firearm safety measures across healthcare, potentially making discussions on safe storage a routine part of care. As states begin to explore this Medicaid option, we anticipate innovative approaches and best practices emerging. #HealthcareLeadership #PublicHealth #FirearmSafety #Medicaid #SaferCleveland #SafeStorage
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Healthcare is at a generational transformation. Getting there will require new policies to address high costs and new regulations to provide access to dynamic new technologies. Since launching Ascent Strategy Group, we’ve invested time connecting with policymakers on the way forward. Even in an election year and a hotly-divided political climate, the discussion around healthcare reveals rare common ground opportunities. This excellent post by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn presents key data and insights on what could be on the horizon. #healthcaretransformation #Medicare #prescriptiondrugs #digitalhealth
@YouGov finds the purple in where Democrats and Republicans agree on health care policies. You may be surprised to find alignment among majorities of bipartisans for over a dozen important healthcare policies.... As well as three gun safety policies. And as I wrote this post yesterday to publish this morning, the #publichealth epidemic of children's deaths due to gun shots was once again repeated. So in today's Health Populi blog's Hot Points, I provide you the link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on firearm injury deaths occurring for people in the U.S. ages 1 to 18, and the inspiring leadership of Michael Dowling and the Northwell Health Center for Gun Violence Prevention. #childrenshealth #healthcare #healthpolitics #healthpolicy #ACA #Medicare #prescriptiondrugs #prescriptiondrugcosts #medicines #healthcosts #endoflife #womenshealth #reproductivehealth #gunsafety #publichealth #bipartisanship #lovethyneighbor #healthcitizens #healthcitizenship Bipartisan Policy Center American Academy of Pediatrics American Academy of Family Physicians American Nurses Association Shawna Butler, RN MBA cc John Digles here's to you.... https://lnkd.in/eF67mAmA
Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Health Care Policies - From Medicare and Prescription Drugs to Gun Safety - HealthPopuli.com
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FIPI Director of Mentorship & Education, Joe Simonetti, MD, MPH, FIPI Research & Evaluation Coordinator, Megan McCarthy, MPH, and colleagues have partnered with local public health departments to develop the SafeHomesCO program. SafeHomesCO includes a novel training designed to equip county employees with the knowledge and skills to discuss firearm injury and opioid overdose risk with parents, guardians, and caretakers. The program also includes the provision of safety kits to households which contain: firearm storage devices, such as firearm lockboxes and cable locks, and educational material for households that encourage secure storage of firearms and medications, as well as information on Narcan use (a medication that treats an opioid overdose). Read about the pilot of SafeHomesCO in Arapahoe County 👉 https://lnkd.in/gcY7e6VF Interested in bringing SafeHomesCO to your county? Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gCdAEkSA
Novel Partnership Helps Arapahoe County Offer Firearm Storage Solutions to Child Protection Services Clients
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I came across this interesting article on Beckers regarding gun violence across the nation and the impacts on the healthcare system. A byproduct of the violence is having a direct impact on safety (patients, staff, and providers) - contributing to the complexity of improving outcomes. https://lnkd.in/g7Unig-s
The Surgeon General is right: Gun violence is a public health crisis, health systems can lead the change
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Workplace trauma is getting worse for healthcare professionals. There have been years of the insidious, targeted degradation of the physician-patient bond by third parties, middlepeople, Systems, etc. #healthcareadvocacy #Healthcare #Medicine #Patients #HealthcareHeroes #HealthcareProfessionals #Nurses #Doctors #NursesOnLinkedin #Nursing #MoralTrauma #Moralinjustice #MoralAssault #Moralinjury #BurnOut #EnoughIsEnough #WhatWillItTake #SeatattheTable #StrongerTogether #BetterTogether "Patient fires gun at Detroit hospital employee, shoots self: Police" https://lnkd.in/gUQ6AJmn
Patient fires gun at Detroit hospital employee, shoots self: Police
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Gun violence in the U.S. has reached alarming highs in recent years. On this National #GunViolence Awareness Day, we’re sharing this recent panel discussion featuring clinicians, practitioners, and community leaders — representing national and local perspectives from Chicago, Connecticut, and Philadelphia. The discussion focuses on how the integration of gun violence prevention efforts and #Medicaid can create better outcomes for patients, savings for payers and systems, and safer communities. https://bit.ly/3LDfqrM
Gun Violence Prevention and Medicaid: State of the Field - Center for Health Care Strategies
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Brilliant well done
𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗞𝗜𝗧𝗦 ❤️🩹 | We’ve now successfully sent out 420 new bleed control kits, paid for and commissioned by Simon Foster PCC Birmingham’s allocation of 185 have now all been collected, adding to the 46 in #Coventry, 46 in #Sandwell, 42 in #Wolverhampton, 38 in #Walsall and #Dudley, and 25 in #Solihull. The medical supply packs are designed to be easy to use and to keep an injured person alive, until they can receive treatment from a paramedic or doctor 👩⚕️ 🚑 On average it takes an ambulance eight minutes to reach a patient – but bleeding from serious injuries can prove fatal in as little as three minutes. A bleed control kit can save lives, so treatment can begin before paramedics arrive 🙌 West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster said: “These kits are a simple but clever idea that provide users with the equipment and instructions needed to save a life.” Pictured: Ladywood Fire Station Watch Commander Russ Edwards, The Daniel Baird Foundation's Lynne Baird & Rae-Ann Preece, and West Midlands Police PCSO Zoe Bishop 🤝
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Yesterday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a historic advisory on gun violence - declaring it a pressing public health issue in this country. This is the first publication ever released by the Office of the Surgeon General to focus on the issue of gun violence, and its an urgent call for the nation. I am so proud that the report cites my organization, The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention, for our critical work supporting hospital-based violence intervention programs throughout the country. Calling gun violence a public health crisis is not merely rhetoric. It changes how our country thinks. And it allows us to think about new solutions. Doctors, nurses, and frontline violence prevention professionals are too often overlooked in the fight against gun violence, and this advisory puts health interventions front and center. It’s time to rethink gun violence. It’s time to rethink our solutions. And healthcare is the place to start. https://lnkd.in/ed8vdU2A
U.S. Surgeon General Issues Advisory on the Public Health Crisis of Firearm Violence in the United States
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This post is for #legalnurseconsultants #expertwitnesses #attorneys #plaintiff #defense ... Whether you work for plaintiffs, defendants, or both what are the most common allegations you see in practice? I want to hear from the #medicallegal community and professionals- What are common claims, regardless of merit do you see from your #clients. I'll go first... I see a lot of pressure injury cases on both sides of the aisle. I'm not going to lie these are not my favorite. Pressure injury cases are tedious, complicated, and tend to include high volume of multiple admissions and facilities. The complexity of co-morbidities, current illness, hospital course, care rendered, complications, and response to treatment all need to be carefully considered. It often requires a #nurse to opine on care rendered and a #physician to discuss #causation. Although #pressureinjury cases are my least favorite, I've become rather experienced on how to approach them with a thorough and thoughtful process. Do you have a type of case that you gravitate toward or prefer not to take on? What are the most frequent claims and allegations you see? #malpractice #malpracticeattorney #personalinjuryattorney #defenseattorney #LNC #registerednurse #woundcare
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