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Feb 06, 2018
When asked where she grew up, Gloria McNeal responds with a mere ZIP code. But don’t expect to hear 90210, or any other such posh digits. “One-nine-one-two-three,” she says, “and that is a ZIP code you didn’t want to come from.” It may not have been her (or more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: California National Pennsylvania
Jul 10, 2017
This is the fifth in a series of profiles of leaders who are part of the Campaign talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. At the University of California, San Francisco, Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: California National
Oct 19, 2016
It may be the wave of the future: A nurse-managed clinic in Los Angeles that uses telehealth to increase consumers’ access to care is expanding its services to connect people who don’t live nearby with nurse practitioners who can provide the care they need. Thanks to a more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Location: California
Oct 11, 2016
Monica R. McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, assistant professor at the Family Health Care Nursing Department at the University of California, San Francisco, will speak—fast—in a lightning talk at the White House Frontiers Conference Thursday, October 13, in Pittsburgh. As a 2015 more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: California Pennsylvania
Sep 22, 2016
After 18 years, U.S. Rep. Lois Capps of California uses the recent renewal by Congress of legislation that improves people’s access to high-quality care by nurses as a springboard to say goodbye. (Capps announced her plan to retire early last year.) In a column on The more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: California National
Sep 16, 2016
One cites the team atmosphere; the other, the value of hard work and staying calm under pressure. Both are football players-turned-nurses who see common elements in their old and new professions. Patrick Hill and Brandon Rice, two star college players who grew up in Los more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: California
Aug 15, 2016
The Pre-Term Birth initiative in California (PTBi-California) gives new meaning to community partnership in its effort to address a problem that disproportionately affects women of color and those who are poor. Working hand in hand with these women to both get and give help is more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: California
Hosted on April 30, 2014: With the Affordable Care Act expanding coverage for millions of Americans over the next several years, increasing the supply of primary care available is essential. It is difficult, however, to rapidly increase the number of primary care more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: California National