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Covid-19 pandemic: Negative health effects on group home workers

Group homes are therapeutic environments that are critical to the care of patients with severe mental illness (SMI) and/or intellectual or developmental disabilities. Massachusetts experienced a sudden and dramatic emergence of Covid in the spring of 2020, as of August 2022, there had been nearly 7,000 deaths and nearly 43,000 cases of Covid-19 reported among residents of congregate care settings. ....

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A community health worker intervention reduces hospital readmissions


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BOSTON - The Community CAre Transitions (C-CAT) clinical trial, which paired community health workers (CHWs) with patients admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has found that fewer intervention group participants were readmitted within 30 days than control group participants. The effect was significant for those discharged to short-term rehabilitation but not for those discharged home. The study has been published in
These results indicate that CHW interventions may help reduce hospital readmissions and improve preventive care among some clinically complex patients within an accountable care organization, says lead author and C-CAT trial principal investigator Jocelyn Carter, MD, MPH, a physician-scientist in the MGH Division of General Internal Medicine. ....

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