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A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 3: Being An Advocate

Society for Participatory Medicine

The nurse last night was worried about metric X and had proactively given her medication Y before she has to {do PT, insert a line, etc.}. On occasion, it’s possible to request a meeting with the care team. However, if you speak with doctors and nurses privately they will share a different perspective. Speaking Up.

Nursing 45
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Keith Algozzine, Founder and CEO of UCM Health

Digital Health Today

During this year’s annual HLTH conference in Boston, I got to speak with Keith Algozzine, the founder and CEO of UCM Health. The ER is the worst place in the world from a consumer standpoint: you have to drive there, it’s around the four walls of a hospital, it’s a huge wait, and it’s often really expensive.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123-bed independent, nonprofit community hospital based in Massachusetts.