Caring as Communities

Join us for a candid conversation with three healthcare leaders from the Camden Coalition, Providence, and CBCS as they explore the realities facing women across the healthcare workforce—from persistent double standards and leadership disparities to the invisible weight of caregiving. With nearly 78% of healthcare roles held by women, this episode dives into the systemic challenges and personal tr...

In this month’s episode, we dive into the increasingly important topic of Medical Respite —a critical service that provides short-term medical care for people experiencing homelessness who are too ill or frail to recover on the streets, but not sick enough to stay in a hospital. Dr. Enguidanos is joined by Jillian Olmsted and Dr. Jeff McNally from The INN Between , Utah’s first and only medical re...

Join us this month as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos chats with John Whigham about his experience as a community health worker—and how his history of homelessness, food insecurity, and addiction have allowed him to find both empathy and empowerment in his street medicine work today. JOHN WHIGHAM: John Whigham is a dedicated Community Health Worker (CHW) specializing in street medicine at AHN's Center...

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Director of Operations at CBCS, Asia Brown, shares her journey and curiosity about people and how it set her on a path to non-fiction writing and then drove her into social work, and eventually to the helping side of getting t...

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Crystal Salazar shares her journey starting as a young, single mother and arriving full circle as a navigator working in New Mexico as a role model, mentor, and support for new parents. 

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Jessica Placencia shares the catalyst for her career change from EMS services to care navigation and the role of small misses in creating barriers to big change. 

One year following the launch of the innovative INSPIRE program, Dr. Enrique Enguidanos interviews those involved in its work on lessons learned in this journey to advance community partnerships in healthcare throughout the country.  INSPIRE’s goal is to create tools, resources and learning/coaching models that will meet the varied needs of healthcare stakeholders and people with lived experience...

Join us for this special episode of Caring as Communities! Dr. Enrique Enguidanos joins  with Asia Brown, CBCS, and Chris Douglas, FindHelp.org, to discuss key challenges facing individuals in accessing critical resources and identify patient-centric solutions that improve access and maintain individual dignity. BONUS CONTENT: This episode includes key testimonials from patients with complex healt...

Nutrition has vast effects on individual and population health—impacting obesity rates, chronic conditions, and quality of life. Yet despite its proven, wide-reaching effects, nutrition remains largely overlooked as a social determinant of health. Dr. Livia Santiago-Rosado, MD, Commissioner of the Dutchess County (NY) Department of Behavioral and Community Health, joins Dr. Enrique Enguidanos to d...

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, community health worker in Virginia, Gerron, shares his journey coming from a background of crime and finding purpose in helping others escape similar life patterns by addressing the environments in which they live through lov...

Listen as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos interviews the Camden Coalition and advocates who are spearheading INSPIRE , a national strategy to advance community partnerships in healthcare. INSPIRE’s goal is to create tools, resources and learning/coaching models that will meet the varied needs of healthcare stakeholders and people with lived experience to advance meaningful partnership in their communities...

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Rose Wheeler shares highlights from her career and the impact that lived experience can have on patient rapport. 

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Heather Koontz shares highlights from her career and the need for empathy in healthcare. 

Burnout is a critical challenge among healthcare providers, with 77% of workers citing some form of burnout. Join us as Laura Buckley, LSW and Founder/Managing Director at Buckley Collaborative, and Emet Bergman, LCSW and Psychotherapist at Transformative Psychotherapy, share their insights with Dr. Enrique Enguidanos about identifying, preventing, and addressing burnout in the clinical workplace....

Community outreach is an effective approach to addressing the issues of complex medical and social care, but setting up such programs can pose unique challenges as well. Listen as Natasha Dravid, MBA and Senior Director of Care Management and Redesign Initiatives at the Camden Coalition, shares best practices for creating consistency and long-term financial viability in implementing and maintainin...

The holidays present unique challenges when it comes to supporting complex care populations. Join in as Jeneen Skinner, Senior Clinical Manager at the Camden Coalition, returns to discuss ways to improve care for complex patients—and the clinicians who care for them!

Patients with high resource utilization are “touching” multiple resources within any given community, but in most places across the country, any care received is happening within silos. Dr. Enrique Enguidanos welcomes Ray Michaelson, Program Manager for the Mat-Su Health Foundation, to talk about the need and best practices for setting up multidisciplinary care teams to break down these silos.

Dr. Joanne Roberts shares with Dr. Enguidanos what we need to understand about death and palliative care—both as healthcare providers and as a larger community—when supporting individuals who have a terminal disease. Join us as Dr. Roberts shares about navigating her own terminal diagnosis as a palliative care physician and how we can better support individuals with terminal diseases to live their...

In Part 1 of this two-part series on vulnerable populations, guest speaker Kara James—Nurse Practitioner with Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles—talks about the increase in maternal morbidity the U.S. is seeing, its impact specifically on BIPOC communities, and what we can all be doing to better support all mothers and their babies for healthier beginnings for all.   *Correction: It should be 50K w...

Data has correlated Adverse Childhood Experiences  (ACEs) with increases in adult Rx use, drug dependency, and more. Listen as we discuss with Elizabeth Guroff, MA, LCMFT, and Consultant, Practice Improvement and Consulting, for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing the role ACEs play in population health, why trauma informed care is critical, and the opportunities we have as communities to be...

According to the Critical Care Nurses Association, 80% of nurses report being verbally abused at least once in the past year, and 47% report being physically abused.  Tune in as Kristen Choi and Anna Dermenchyan discuss the increasing importance of addressing violence against healthcare workers, inside and out of clinic walls.

In this episode of Caring as Communities, Paula Blackwell, MBA and Allison Robinson, MPH discuss with Dr. Enrique Enguidanos the increasing importance of community health workers in supporting individuals with social determinants of health—as well as the value of having advocates with "lived experience" to help build trust between healthcare providers and communities. Guests  Paula Black...

Learn the mental health challenges faced by nurses and physicians across the country—including burnout compassion fatigue, and moral injury—following the COVID-19 pandemic with the country's leaders in provider health research and advocacy.    Special Guests:   Bernard Chang, MD, PhD, FACEP and Vice Chair of Research and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Irving...

HealthTech is paving the way for addressing social determinants of health through a myriad of platforms, softwares, and more. Join us as we talk with health IT industry leader, Benjamin Zaniello—Chief Medical Officer at Point Click Care—in this tech series and get insights for reducing gaps in care.  A practicing Infectious Disease physician, Ben is also a technologist at heart, focused on healthc...

Stigmas promote feelings of isolation, unworthiness, and unwelcomeness, leading to discomfort and distrust. Yet they are a common  reality in healthcare—especially for patients with social determinants of health, chronic conditions, or addictions. Drs. Stephen Anderson, FACEP , and Donald Stader, FACEP , join Jeneen Skinner of the Camden Coalition to discuss how we can reduce these stigmas in our...