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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

Atlantic Health System, which employs over 16,000 team members across northern New Jersey, was included in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For from 2010-17. Intermountain Healthcare has around 1,400 employed primary care and secondary care physicians at its 22 hospitals, 180-plus clinics and health plan.