News Journal features Project Engage and ‘medical home’
Project Engage and Christiana Care’s efforts around the concept of a patient-centered “medical home” were featured today in the Delaware News Journal.
Value symposium speakers: ‘Start with the patient’
The medical profession must refocus attention on the patient to deliver quality care at greater value, according to speakers at the Christiana Care Value Institute’s inaugural symposium “Value: Medicine’s New Frontier” held Monday, April 30.
More than 200 health care experts from top institutions in the nation discussed how returning to the basics of medicine – listening to the patient, better use of resources and a greater emphasis on quality and safety – can transform patient care and deliver far greater value.
Christiana Care established the Value Institute this year to study and… read more »
Students develop a healthy interest in learning at Mini Medical School
Sevriano Seda and Nelson Mweberi both plan to become doctors someday.
But the 17-year-olds are still in high school, in the nursing tech program at Hodgson Vocational Technical High School in Newark, Del.
The teens are getting a head start on their aspirations at Mini Medical School, a free, six-week lecture series offered to young people and adults of all ages. The faculty is made up of Christiana Care doctors, who offer in-depth lectures on important health issues and advances in medicine and research.
“My teacher suggested I… read more »
Bullying and teen suicide: Q&A with crisis interventionalist Gregory Cooper, BSN, RN
Bullying, once dismissed as a normal part of growing up, is now recognized as far more dangerous and consequential than once believed. High-profile incidents, including school shootings and suicides, have sparked a national conversation about bullying, placing it front and center in the minds of parents, educators and health care professionals.
For Christiana Care’s Gregory D. Cooper, BSN, RN, a crisis interventionalist at Wilmington Hospital, preventing adolescent suicide is his life’s work. He is the lead author of “Examining Childhood Bullying and Adolescent Suicide: Implications for School Nurses,” published in the March issue of the Journal of School Nursing, with colleagues from Drexel University. Their earlier paper, “A Review and Application of Suicide Prevention… read more »
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