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How Empathy, Education, Communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

Not having a focused Sickle Cell program coordinator led to a high hospital readmission rate, increased length of stay, fragmentation of medical and social services, suboptimal pain management, noncompliance by patients, emergency department misuse, inadequate follow-up with primary care and poor transition from pediatric to adult care.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Campbell County Health is a health system with 1,244 employees across its 90-bed acute care hospital, 160-bed skilled nursing facility, inpatient behavioral health unit, ASC, and 14 outpatient primary care and specialty clinics. Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). Pinehurst (N.C.)