It’s hard to quit smoking. According to the American Cancer Society, smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths every year in this country—or about one in every five deaths. More than 16 million Americans live with a smoking-related disease. And yet, despite these severe impacts on life and health, 34 million Americans still smoke cigarettes. Why? Tobacco […]
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What are the most prevalent SDOHs in Montana? In 2015, Mountain-Pacific Quality Health partnered with three Montana communities to work on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) project to address complex care patients who frequently use the emergency department (ED) and experience hospital readmissions. The communities expected to see transportation and affordable housing as […]
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We get it. Your practice has limited time, limited staff and too many best practices to implement. in our last blog, we made the case for WHY it is important to assess SDOH (insert link). This blog will focus on HOW to begin. Determine why assessing SDOH is important to your practice. This should align with […]
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