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'We had to:' UMass Memorial Health President and CEO says changes to healthcare were a 'must' to fight off COVID pandemic

COVID-19 brought on a lot of new challenges for people both in and out of healthcare. Things like mask wearing and social distancing became the norm. But surprising enough, the virus resulted in some positive changes. Changes to healthcare some never even imagined.

Now we use video interpreters all the time. But we also now became much more comfortable delivering care through video. So now, we can have a paramedic go into the home through our mobile integrated health program, do labs, do a physical exam on the patient, put an iv in, deliver fluid, deliver medication.

Dr. Eric Dickson | President and CEO, UMass Memorial Health
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| Medscape | Human Interest, In the Media, Patient Care

Managing Mental Illness in Pregnancy and Postpartum: What to Know

For women with, or at a risk for, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or other psychiatric conditions, managing mental health during pregnancy and postpartum presents unique challenges.

We have very clear data that tells us that if a pregnant or postpartum individual doesn’t get the treatment that they need, if they’re experiencing a mood or anxiety disorder, that can have a negative impact on themselves and on their babies.

Nancy Byatt, DO | Perinatal psychiatrist with the Women’s Mental Health at UMass Memorial Medical Center
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| People Magazine | Human Interest, In the Community, Patient Care

Mother Delivers Daughter Early in Ambulance with Help from EMT Who Trained Baby's Firefighter Father

Kayla Alvarez was on the way to the hospital when her daughter Mariah decided to make an early arrival. Kayla Alvarez delivered her second daughter Mariah in an unlikely place thanks to the help of an unlikely friend. The 25-year-old Mass.

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| MassLive | Human Interest, Patient Care

Physician assistants say they could help the primary care crisis. Will Mass. lawmakers agree?

The Massachusetts Association of PAs wants state legislators to make permanent COVID-era accommodations that eliminate the legal requirement for physician assistants to register a specific supervising physician with the state.

There’s more camaraderie between physicians and PAs, and less of that historical hierarchy. More and more, physicians are recognizing our value as partners in care and that has been incredibly validating.

Thea Nolan, Physician Assistant, Interventional Radiology
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| Spectrum News 1 | COVID, Human Interest, In the Media

UMass Memorial Health President and CEO Eric Dickson reflects on 5 years since the start of the COVID pandemic

Local hospitals were filled quite literally to the brim with sick patients for months on end. Field hospitals even needed to be opened. Creating challenges some healthcare leaders never fathomed.

As I think about COVID, I think about how every health care system, how every governmental agency came together and worked together to solve, really, the biggest healthcare crisis of our time.

Dr. Eric Dickson, President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health
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| Spectrum News 1 | Human Interest, In the Community, In the Media

"I was shell-shocked:" Southbridge man battling colorectal cancer highlights importance of getting tested

A Central Massachusetts man is sharing his story of battling cancer, saying a screening at a local hospital no doubt saved his life. It comes during colorectal cancer awareness month. A disease, experts say, has seen a scary rise in recent years.

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