Caring as Communities

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Jenn Demmin shares her journey coming from AA and how she balances working in the field as a role model, mentor, and support for individuals with substance use with self-care in a career where she faces potential triggers on a daily basis. 

Listen as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos interviews the Camden Coalition and advocates who are spearheading INSPIRE, a national strategy to advance community partnerships in healthcare. INSPIRE’s goal is to create tools, resources and learning/coaching models that will meet the varied needs of healthcare stakeholders and people with lived experience to advance meaningful partnership in their communities to deliver better quality healthcare.

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Rose Wheeler shares highlights from her career and the impact that lived experience can have on patient rapport. 

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Heather Koontz shares highlights from her career and the need for empathy in healthcare. 

Burnout is a critical challenge among healthcare providers, with 77% of workers citing some form of burnout. Join us as Laura Buckley, LSW and Founder/Managing Director at Buckley Collaborative, and Emet Bergman, LCSW and Psychotherapist at Transformative Psychotherapy, share their insights with Dr. Enrique Enguidanos about identifying, preventing, and addressing burnout in the clinical workplace. 

Community outreach is an effective approach to addressing the issues of complex medical and social care, but setting up such programs can pose unique challenges as well. Listen as Natasha Dravid, MBA and Senior Director of Care Management and Redesign Initiatives at the Camden Coalition, shares best practices for creating consistency and long-term financial viability in implementing and maintaining community outreach programs for individuals with complex care needs.

The holidays present unique challenges when it comes to supporting complex care populations. Join in as Jeneen Skinner, Senior Clinical Manager at the Camden Coalition, returns to discuss ways to improve care for complex patients—and the clinicians who care for them!

Patients with high resource utilization are “touching” multiple resources within any given community, but in most places across the country, any care received is happening within silos. Dr. Enrique Enguidanos welcomes Ray Michaelson, Program Manager for the Mat-Su Health Foundation, to talk about the need and best practices for setting up multidisciplinary care teams to break down these silos.

Dr. Joanne Roberts shares with Dr. Enguidanos what we need to understand about death and palliative care—both as healthcare providers and as a larger community—when supporting individuals who have a terminal disease. Join us as Dr. Roberts shares about navigating her own terminal diagnosis as a palliative care physician and how we can better support individuals with terminal diseases to live their life vitally and fully and ensure they're not alone. 

In Part 1 of this two-part series on vulnerable populations, guest speaker Kara James—Nurse Practitioner with Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles—talks about the increase in maternal morbidity the U.S. is seeing, its impact specifically on BIPOC communities, and what we can all be doing to better support all mothers and their babies for healthier beginnings for all.  

*Correction: It should be 50K women experience life-threatening postpartum complications, not 500K.*