Health, Equity, and Resilience Unknown

Growing evidence suggests that increasing the diversity of the healthcare workforce is essential to improving access to and the quality of care in communities historically underrepresented in medical professions. BIPOC doctors are more likely to offer treatments in communities of color and treat Medicaid-eligible, uninsured, and patients with complex medical conditions due to unmet health-related social needs. Additionally, patients with the same racial or cultural background as their doctors...

Angie and Mary talk about Integrated Care, specifically the integration of Behavioral Health into primary care. During this conversation, you will hear about Mary’s journey as a patient in a non-integrated care model, and how she is now sharing her passion to help others to make healthcare work in an integrated care setting.

Listen to our HealthTeamWorks' Practice Facilitators Diane Cardwell, Angie Schindler-Berg and Katie Ebinger discuss their thoughts about the importance of addressing mental health conditions to impact patients’ overall health. During this conversation, the team touches on how mental health conditions can impact the emergency department and hospital utilization, also, how important it is to have the tools and skills to promptly intervene when mental health conditions are detected. Yo...

During this two-part podcast episode, you will listen to a conversation about Health Equity. This time, we had the honor to have Indra Lusero as our guest. Indra is the founder and director of Elephant Circle, an organization that brings an intersectional, feminist, reproductive justice, and design thinking approach to birth justice.Listen to how Cecilia and Indra dive into topics like the circles of protection, trauma during birth, health equity policy, the difference between equ...

During this two-part podcast episode, you will listen to a conversation about Health Equity. This time, we had the honor to have Indra Lusero as our guest. Indra is the founder and director of Elephant Circle, an organization that brings an intersectional, feminist, reproductive justice, and design thinking approach to birth justice.Listen to how Cecilia and Indra dive into topics like the circles of protection, trauma during birth, health equity policy, the difference between equ...

In this episode, we are fortunate to have a conversation with Holly Roberts, Ph.D., who is an Associate Professor and faculty trainer in the Department of Psychology at the Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and a licensed psychologist in Nebraska. Hear directly from Dr. Roberts about her passion and experience in integrated care, how her team has worked towards integrating behavioral health providers into primary care, and how they measure ...