Phil Rodgers
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Physician, advocate, committed to progress.
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Jeff Irwin
5 months ago
Michigan Medicine is opening the new Ypsilanti Health Center in downtown Ypsilanti on June 2nd, and the hall is packed with people excited for today's ribbon cutting. This project enhances health care access, improves services for mental health care, and brings more jobs and activity to downtown.
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Stephanie Chang
5 months ago
Medicaid covers 168,000 seniors in Michigan. Michigan nursing homes receive >$3 billion in Medicaid funding. Cuts to Medicaid? Wrong for Michigan seniors.
#nomedicaidcuts
#momsky
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Reuters
6 months ago
US FDA approves first at-home test for cervical cancer screening
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US FDA approves first at-home test for cervical cancer screening
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first at-home test for cervical cancer screening, its maker Teal Health said on Friday, offering an alternative to Pap smears that need to be undertaken at a doctor's office.
https://reut.rs/3GZu50G
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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science We should all mourn the loss of our best source of health data for more than half of Americans. Question: the WHI budget is under $10M/year. Opportunity for philanthropy to step in, even in the short run? Donors out there?
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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-cancels-its-first-and-largest-study-centered-women
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Annals of Family Medicine
7 months ago
www.annfammed.org/content/23/2...
#PrimaryCare
patients prefer their PCP for routine & chronic care, willing to wait weeks—except for urgent issues (only 7.2% would wait) As health systems prioritize speed over continuity, this study suggests patient preferences favor trust over convenience
#FMsky
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Kara Gavin
9 months ago
In Michigan - NIH FUNDING: $991 M JOBS SUPPORTED: 11,965 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $2.42B
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
add a skeleton here at some point
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Lauren Oshman
9 months ago
📢 Our latest Michigan Collaborative for Type 2 Diabetes Annual Report is here! 🎉 Kudos to our incredible design team who crafted our data into a compelling, visually engaging story. 🙌 Full report here:
mct2d-annual-report-2024.shorthandstories.com/2024-mct2d-a...
#medsky
#T2D
#CQI
#quality
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2024 MCT2D Annual Report
The Michigan Collaborative for Type 2 Diabetes2024 YEAR IN REVIEW
https://mct2d-annual-report-2024.shorthandstories.com/2024-mct2d-annual-report/
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Daniel Sunderland, DO
11 months ago
Study after study shows we're behind in growing
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. It's honestly really simple: pay people specifically to become PCPs and then pay practicing PCPs better. "US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 - Journal of General Internal Medicine
Background Despite efforts to mitigate a projected primary care physician (PCP) shortage required to meet an aging, growing, and increasingly insured population, shortages remain, compounded by the CO...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-09121-x
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Annals of Family Medicine
11 months ago
This original research study highlights patients who saw their own family physician for after-hours care were 10% less likely to visit the ER within a week, suggesting that continuity of care may improve outcomes, reduce ER visits & lower health care costs.
www.annfammed.org/content/22/6...
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Day 1 on Bluesky for me! Hoping to find some of my family medicine and palliative care friends and colleagues here. We have so much more great work to do, together.
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