Including the family in the patient’s treatment plan, also known as family-centered care, can help shorten a patient’s hospital stay and can even reduce hospital costs. However, caregivers carry heavy emotional burdens while supporting loved ones at the hospital. There are ways to help ease this emotional burden, and most of them come down to consistent and open communication between the patient, their caregivers and the medical team.
READ MOREAt a private event, Trump reportedly joked about welcoming immigrants from “nice” countries like Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway, again demonstrating his racial bias in immigration policy.
READ MOREOne of the central aims of the proposals is to address the disproportionate debt burden borne by communities of color, mainly Black and Latino borrowers.
READ MORESome opine that it’s hurtful that an African American mayor in a District once heralded as “Chocolate City,” would launch such initiatives.
READ MORE“Wealth doesn’t have a color. No matter what you look like or who you are, we deserve to build wealth.”
READ MORECritics argue that TSU’s purported financial mismanagement is a manufactured crisis rooted in decades of underinvestment by the state government. They’ve noted that it continues a trend by conservatives and the racist MAGA movement to eliminate opportunities for Blacks in education, corporate America, and the public sector.
READ MORELawmakers in several states are trying to enact state-level protections to plug gaps opened by courts in the landmark federal Voting Rights Act. Minnesota, Michigan, Maryland, New Jersey and Florida are building on state voting rights laws passed in New York and Connecticut Court rulings have weakened a key part of the national law as Republicans in Congress and red states impose new restrictions
READ MOREA racially biased test delayed 14,000 Black patients from getting a kidney transplant. Now the U.S. transplant system has ordered hospitals to quit using the test and give credit for lost time to patients who did not get on transplant lists because of the flawed test
READ MOREThe goal is to more accurately count residents, including those who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage. This evolving process often reflects changes in social attitudes and immigration. Under the revisions, questions about race and ethnicity that previously were asked separately will be combined into a single question.
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