All Articles on Safety

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  MacColl Center helps launch Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net

  New collaborative with John Snow Inc. and Center for Care Innovations aims to spur innovation in value-based payment and care.
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  CCHE joins project to build local clinic capacity faster and better

  A pilot program supported by Kaiser Permanente will boost clinical, operational, and financial performance of safety net clinics, with CCHE evaluating.
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  As Obamacare expands access, clinics use team care to adapt

  When more people are covered, clinics have more patients. Maggie Jones writes that safety net clinics are adjusting, supported by private foundations.
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  Finding safer ways to treat behavioral disorders in kids and teens

  With $10 million from NIMH, KPWHRI is leading a multi-site study to ensure safe prescribing of antipsychotic drugs for youth with behavioral disorders.
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  Prince’s apparent opioid-linked death shows need for new plan for pain

  For over a decade, Dr. Michael Von Korff and others have been working on a strategy to stop the opioid epidemic. Here’s an outline.
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  Sometimes ‘less care’ feels like ‘better care’

  Mother and Group Health Research Institute project manager Casey Luce sees first-hand how research improved her daughter’s health care.
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  Starting sleeping pills? Risk of car crash may double

  A UW-Group Health study linked sleeping pills to nearly twice as many car crashes in Group Health patients. Clinicians should take precautions or try nondrug approaches to insomnia.