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Adjusting Sails in Stormy Seas for Better Mental Health

June 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Tim Corkran 40s–60s, adjust sail, behavioral health service, charity child 's peace, deliberate view, effective way, emotional wellness, good chance, good idea, holistic approach, integration, integration of medication, interdisciplinary way, interplay of structure, isolation, kid, knowledge of the biology of mental illness, Kosair, Kosair charity child, Kosair charity child 's peace center, Louisville Stephen Taylor, medical director, medication, mental illness, Multi-Disciplinary, multi-disciplinary perspective, musician 's sensibility, nation 's large private provider, nation 's large private provider of youth inpatient, need of post-pandemic youth, pandemic, peace center, peace center serve child, peace hospital, peace hospital 's kosair, peace hospital 's population, post-pandemic, post-pandemic era, post-pandemic youth, private music teacher, psychoanalytic train, psychoanalytic work, responsive combination, responsive combination of tool, Stephen Taylor, Taylor, Taylor 's attentiveness, Taylor 's patient range, therapy, therapy serve adolescent, understand of the complexity of lived experience, UofL, UofL health, young patient, young people, youth inpatient

LOUISVILLE Stephen Taylor, MD, medical director at UofL Health – Peace Hospital, has a holistic approach to mental and emotional

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Complementary Care

Organ Donation: Anyone Can Be a Lifesaver

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Menisa Marshall 2-to, 4 hour window, acuity facility, Bergin, Bergin 's heart, Bergin 's passion, BSN, C., cardiac standstill, care option, CEO, CEO of Kentucky organ donor affiliate, cornea, cornea donation, country 's fast grow registry, COVID, COVID complication, COVID patient, COVID-positive, COVID-positive patient, director of quality service, discontinue ventilation, donation, donor, donor referral, donor registry, effective control measure, employee share, FACHE, first-ever in-house organ donation, heart standstill, hepatitis, high acuity facility, ICU nurse, image001 Julie Bergin, intestine transplant, Julie Bergin, Kentucky, Kentucky 's organ wait list, Kentucky 's small rural hospital, Kentucky circuit clerk, Kentucky circuit clerk 's trust, Kentucky lion eye bank, Kentucky organ donor affiliate, Kentucky resident, kidney, KODA, KODA 's 100+ employee share, KODA 's mission, little advance warn, liver, Louisville, lung, lung account, need of a transplant, nurse, onsite death, organ, organ donation, organ donor, organ recovery coordinator, pancreas, pandemic, patient 's desire, population die, potential donation, recipient, recovery, registry-, situation family, small area of Indiana, small percentage of transplant, standstill, thousand of donor referral, tissue, tissue donation, transplant, transplant recipient, two year decline

LOUISVILLE As president and CEO of Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, Julie Bergin, BSN, FACHE wants you to remember two things:

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Special Section

BiFocal: The Dual Preoccupations of the COVID Era Pulmonologist

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Tim Corkran acute respiratory issue, advocate of early screen, bifocal attention, biopsy, bronchoscopy, cancer, Care medicine, career-long focus, cat scan, chi, chi saint, clot, colon, COVID, COVID-19, critical Care medicine, detection, develop clarity, develop clarity of the dynamics of long COVID-19, distant region, distant region of the lung, dual preoccupation of the COVID era, early screen, eastern half of the commonwealth, Eliseo, Eliseo colon, emphysema, endo-bronchial, evolve field of long COVID, FDA, gas trap, high risk, high-risk patient, hyperinflation, illness, image001 endo-bronchial valve, joined chi saint, Joseph, Joseph medical group, lesion, long COVID, long COVID-19, lung, lung cancer, native of Puerto Rico, new set of preoccupation, nodule, pandemic, patient population, point of concern, practice leader, pre-pandemic, pre-pandemic practice, pulmonologist, pulmonologists, scan, screen, severe emphysema, severe respiratory illness, sufferer of severe respiratory illness, suite of symptom, symptom, time of COVID-19, valve

LEXINGTON As a pulmonologist in the time of COVID-19, Eliseo Colon, MD, has had a busy two years. The practice

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Infectious Enthusiasm

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Jim Kelsey about, about 5 years old grow, advanced classroom work, animal coronaviruses, area of medicine deal, burn call, Burns, Burns 's eye, Burns credit, community speaker, comorbidity, coronaviruses, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, dangerous infection, disease specialist, diverse patient, division of infectious disease, Dr. Mark Burns, duPont manual high school, established patient, FACP, field of infectious disease, former infectious disease specialist, former nurse 's aide, great impact, high risk, HIV, HIV clinic, image001 photo, image002 photo, immune system, importance of infectious disease, infection, infection clinic, infectious disease, infectious disease specialist, infectious enthusiasm, joint infection clinic, Julio Ramirez, junior varsity basketball, large group of diverse patient, little boy, little boy of about 5 years old grow, local laundromat, long white coat, Louisville, Louisville Mark Burns, Louisville school, Mark Burns, Mark Mahan, medicine, medicine deal, mom, open wound, pandemic, photo, physician, potential career, pulmonary critical care, solid organ, specialist, stem cell transplant patient, type of medical field, university of Louisville school of medicine, UofL, UofL health, vaccine, virus, wide patient population

LOUISVILLE Mark Burns, MD, FACP, has a passion for infectious disease that could be called, well, contagious. It’s one that

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Infectious Disease Prevention Is So Much More than COVID-19

April 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Bethany Hodge, MD, MPH -related infectious disease, 12 % increase, AIDS institute, Amanda Wilburn, C estimate, C., chronic infection impact quality, citizen of the commonwealth, common STDs, control program, COVID-19, COVID-19 response, disease branch, disease transmission model show, disease trend, division of epidemiology, dog tick, drug-user, drug-user network, emerge disease trend, epidemiologist, epidemiology, foodborne, Frankfort, goal of the Kentucky STD prevention, group of public health worker, guidance, harm reduction service, HCV, HCV rate, health leader, hepatitis, hepatitis program manager, high burden of new HCV infection, HIV cluster, incoming morbidity, infection impact quality, infectious disease branch, infectious disease prevention, infectious rate, infectious syphilis case, insect vector illness, instance of HIV cluster, item, Kentucky, Kentucky 's public health infrastructure, Kentucky department, Kentucky public health leader, Kentucky STD, Kentucky STD prevention, KY STD prevention, meat, national trend of increase rate of STDs, new HCV infection, ongoing health threat, pandemic, pathogen, prevalence of HCV, prevention, public health, public health staff, rate of substance use disorder, real-time intervention, reported syphilis, safety of the commonwealth, salmonella, STD prevention, STDs, stress of the pandemic, SUD, surveillance, syphilis, syphilis case, syphilis surveillance effort, TB, tick, tick species, tick-borne, tick-borne disease, transmitted disease, tuberculosis, unprecedented new challenge, utensil, vector, viral hepatitis, viral hepatitis program manager, warm weather, winnable battle

FRANKFORT The Infectious Disease Branch in the Division of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics at the Kentucky Department for Public Health

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Central Kentucky Heart Ball Returns

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Jeff Koonce American heart month, ball, Ball supporter, board of the central Kentucky, board trustee, central bank center, central Kentucky heart, central Kentucky heart walk, chair couple, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, CVD, end tobacco, executive leadership team, gala fund research, heart disease, heart month, image001 Jeff Koonce, Kentucky, Kentucky heart, Kentucky heart walk, Lexington cardiovascular disease, McKinsey global survey, pandemic, provide resource, reported low emotional wellness, reported low physical wellness, skip exercise, vaping, vaping use, wellness, work empower individual

LEXINGTON Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has long been the leading cause of death, not just here in Kentucky, but around the

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Special Section

The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Professionals: Occupational Hazard, Unique Opportunity

December 1, 2021February 15, 2022 Miriam Silman, MSW $2, A., affective disorder, anxiety, burnout, C., check-in, compassion, compassion fatigue, confidential mental health coverage, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, crisis response, critical driver, current pandemic leave healthcare provider, D., E., EAP resource, elevated self-reports, elevated self-reports of depression, emotional exhaustion, evidence-informed, evidence-informed way, exception, exposure, fabric of healthcare system, fatigue, Frankfort, G., health concern increase vulnerability, health impact, healthcare, healthcare professional, healthcare provider, healthcare system, healthcare work, healthcare worker, huddle, I, image002 Miriam Silman, international journal, J., journal, journal of affective disorder, K., L., leadership, leave healthcare provider, level of healthcare, level of transformative change, M., mental health, mental health concern increase vulnerability, mental health impact, mental health impact of COVID-19, mental health of healthcare professional, mental health of healthcare worker, meta-analysis, moral distress, MSW, multi-tiered system, multi-tiered system of support, N., negative psychosocial response, occupational hazard, P., pains.1, pains.1 emerge data, pandemic, past pandemic, physician, plethora of negative psychosocial response, positivity, pre-pandemic, provider, psychosocial impact, public awareness, R., resilience-building, resilience-building practice, resilient workforce, robust body of literature, S., screener, secondary trauma, secondary traumatic stress, self-care, somatic ache, staff meet, staff well-being, stress, supervision, sustainable healthcare system, symptom of traumatic stress, system responsibility, toll, toll of healthcare work, transformative change, trauma, traumatic stress, unpredictability of the current pandemic leave healthcare provider, well-being

FRANKFORT The ferocity, duration, and unpredictability of the current pandemic leave healthcare providers particularly vulnerable to negative psychosocial impacts: COVID-19

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Critical Delays: The Importance of Meeting the Standard of Care for Cancer Diagnosis

December 1, 2021February 15, 2022 Andrew Desimone, Esq additional pain, breach, breach of the standard of care, cancer, cancer screen program, causation, causation defense, causation standard, chance, common lawsuit, competent physician, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 patient, critical delay, damage exposure, defend delay, defendant physician, delay, delayed diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis case, diagnosis of cancer, diagnosis of cancer case, diminished chance, diminished chance of survival, expert testimony, general negligence claim, healthcare, healthcare professional, hospital redirect resource, injury, jury, Kentucky, legal causation standard, levels.1, lost chance, lost chance of survival, malpractice, malpractice case, malpractice defense, medical malpractice case, medical malpractice defense, medical probability, multiple hospitalization, necessary expert proof, negligence, NIH find show, oncology, oncology service, oppose expert, outcome, pandemic, patient-physician, patient-physician relationship, physician, physician breach, physician breach of the standard of care, pre-pandemic, pre-pandemic levels.1, probability, provider, reasonable degree, reasonable degree of medical probability, reasonable degree of probability, reduction of the odds of recovery, requirement of an expert witness, routine cancer screen, significant damage exposure, site surgery, standard of care, subset of a general negligence claim, summary dismissal of the lawsuit, surgery, survivability, survival, testimony, wrong site surgery

One of the most common lawsuits in medical malpractice defense is a delay in diagnosis of cancer. According to the

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Outsourcing: The New Normal in Healthcare Accounting?

August 1, 2021October 18, 2021 Justin Hubbard account team, capability in-house, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Dean Dorton, facet of healthcare, healthcare, healthcare account, healthcare industry, industry 's top priority, long-term initiative, new normal, new normal call, new normal look, next pandemic, outsourcing, Outsourcing partner, Outsourcing partner offer, pandemic, partner, professional accountant, remote work, repeat of recent event, right outsourcing partner, routine account obligation, specialized financial insight, sudden remote work requirement, time-intensive effort, unprecedented difficulty, unpredictable staff shortage

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged every assumption in healthcare. Systems that were supposed to be redundant and resilient were pushed to

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What the Pandemic Taught Us About the Importance of Diversity in Health Care

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Geraldine Q. Young, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CDE, FAANP Black people, Black respondent, Caren Blantin, CDC, contribute factor, COVID, COVID death, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, current medical negligence, death toll rate, DEI, delivery, disparity, diversity, diversity impact conference, Earth-Shameenah, Earth-Shameenah barber, equity, exist disparity, FNU, frontier, frontier nurse university, Geraldine young, health care provider, health disparity, healthcare, healthcare delivery system, healthcare disparity, healthcare workforce, image001 photo, image002 photo, importance of diversity, inclusion, inequitable outcome, inequitable outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic, inequity, Maria Cruz, Mary Alogidi-Egbuson, MD-UPDATE, minority, minority population, national impact, nurse, outcome, pandemic, soc, socioeconomic hardship, structural racism, treatment of Black people, undeniable reality check, underrepresented, vaccine, Versailles change, virtual event, white population of healthcare professional, workforce

Editor’s Introduction: Diversity, equity and inclusion are growing initiatives within healthcare. MD-Update asked Geraldine Young, DNP, APRN, to share her

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