Even when the vaccine travels to them, many Mainers won t take it
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manager who became extremely ill from COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic declined initial chances to get the vaccine because he worried about the side effects. He also doubted that he would get infected again. A program director at a health center whose son got COVID-19 initially said no to the vaccine because she needed time to decide whether she felt it was safe. “Where did this come from? What’s going in my body? Will it hurt me later?” she wondered.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Collaborates with Ariadne Labs and UMass Memorial Health to Launch TeamBirth, an Initiative to Improve Maternal Care
Initiative will work to improve well-being of mothers across New England through stronger communication and shared decision-making
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WELLESLEY, Mass. and WORCESTER, Mass., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care today announced a new collaboration aimed at improving maternal health and well-being across New England. Through a collaboration with Ariadne Labs and UMass Memorial Health, TeamBirth, a clinically proven care process innovation pioneered by Ariadne Labs will initially launch at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster and UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester this May. Lessons from this collaboration will be used to establish TeamBirth as a standard of care that benefits people giving birth across New England.
Helping medical providers discuss COVID-19 vaccines with hesitant patients
A new toolkit created by a team at Ariadne Labs aims to help increase public confidence in COVID-19vaccines.
The toolkit includes best practices for medical providers looking to start conversations about the vaccines with hesitant patients. It addresses several areas that patients may be reluctant about concerns about getting sick from the vaccine, doubts about whether it actually offers protection, and distrust in the drug companies and government officials that were involved in developing and approving the vaccines.
“The purpose of creating the toolkit was to make sure that actual conversations based on facts, based on listening to concerns, answering with accurate information…were happening, rather than people making decisions based on anecdotes or their Facebook feeds,” said Evan Benjamin, chief medical officer at Ariadne Labs and an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Manag
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