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Trust is a major barrier for many when it comes to interactions with healthcare providers and our current system, and community based nurses may help. Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, has created a program called …

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Neighborhood Nursing, a community outreach that places both a nurse and a community health worker in communities, meets people where they are and helps overcome their fears and inherent barriers in our current fragmented system. That’s according to Sarah Szanton, …

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Imagine a nurse whose job it is to hang out in your neighborhood, answering questions, helping manage healthcare issues, and doing basic assessments. That’s the goal of Neighborhood Nursing, an initiative created by Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins …

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Primary healthcare delivered right where you are. Sounds like a fantasy, doesn’t it? Not if health insurers can see the benefits and choose to work together to fund this program, called Neighborhood Nursing, the brainchild of Sarah Szanton, dean of …

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Neighborhood Nursing is a new initiative begun by Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and colleagues, to place a nurse and a community health worker in neighborhoods to deliver primary care and other health services. Szanton …

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Nitazines are the new kid on the block when it comes to synthetic opioids being found in street drugs, and they can be about 40 times as powerful as fentanyl. Eric Strain, a substance use disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, …

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Opioid overdoses continue to be a huge public health problem, with new synthetic opioids continuing to be developed. Eric Strain, a substance use disorder expert at Johns Hopkins, says one bright spot is access to treatment is improving. Strain: I …

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