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BY KELVA EDMUNDS-WALLER, DNP, RN, CCM, WITH NICOLE M. MEREDITH, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM The United States of America, one of the world’s wealthiest and most technologically advanced countries, has a Black and Brown maternal and infant health crisis. Healthcare costs in the U.S. are twice the expenditures of other wealthy countries. Despite its wealth […]

BY TINA R. MCDANIEL CHENG, MSN, RN, CCDS, AND LAUREN PFEIFER, PhD, RN, CCDS Pediatric patients are not little adults. Due to their unique physiological and developmental needs, children often are diagnosed with medical conditions that differ substantially from their adult counterparts. One difference is that due to their immature immune systems, children are more

BY JULIET B. UGARTE HOPKINS, MD Just as the role of physician advisors has come to the forefront of the healthcare world over the last decade and a half, so too has the subset of pediatric physician advisors in recent years. While, previously, their scope and unique focus was side-stepped by the greater community due

BY ALEXA HUGHES AND LAUREN BUCHWALD, BSN, RN, MSC Maternal Mortality and Morbidity One does not have to search far to find that the United States is experiencing a maternal health crisis; a crisis that has continued to rise both during and in the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the maternal health crisis