Caring as Communities
A monthly podcast aimed at addressing gaps in healthcare for our nation’s most vulnerable patients. Caring as Communities interviews healthcare leaders across the country to discuss what care teams, communities, and government agencies are doing to better support individuals with unique care needs—including mental and behavioral health, substance use disorder, social determinants of health, and other complexities of care.
Episodes
35 episodes since 2020
Tales from the Frontlines - Community Navigator Series with Jessica Placencia
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 servic...
August 26, 2024
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38:17
One Year Later - Inspire 2.0
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. INSPI...
July 18, 2024
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44:14
Improving Care Navigation with FindHelp
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 pati...
April 24, 2024
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46:02
Understanding Nutrition as a Social Determinant of Health with Dr. Livia Santiago-Rosado
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 heal...
February 19, 2024
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48:01
Tales from the Frontlines - Navigator Voices Series Pt. 4, Gerron
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...
December 07, 2023
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47:12
Tales from the Frontlines - Community Health Worker Series Pt. 3 with Jenn Demmin
Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Jenn Demmin shares her journey coming from AA and how she balances working ...
October 05, 2023
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36:29
Camden Coalition and the Inspire Project
Listen as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos interviews the Camden Coalition and advocates who are spearheading INSPIRE, a national ...
September 07, 2023
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44:05
Tales from the Frontlines - Navigator Voices Series Pt. 2 with Rose Wheeler
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 ex...
July 18, 2023
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40:21
Tales from the Frontlines - Navigator Voices Series Pt. 1 with Heather Koontz
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 i...
June 20, 2023
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34:13
Identifying and preventing burnout
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 Tra...
May 01, 2023
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55:10
Community outreach and complex care
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 R...
January 23, 2023
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42:56
Complex care during the holidays
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 clinic...
December 19, 2022
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46:14
Supporting communities through multidisciplinary care
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 Ma...
July 28, 2022
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52:53
Improving Palliative Care
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 shar...
July 05, 2022
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40:33
Addressing Maternal Morbidity in Vulnerable Populations
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 ...
May 24, 2022
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34:55
Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
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 Nation...
February 27, 2022
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31:49
Addressing Violence Against Healthcare Workers
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 ...
January 20, 2022
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46:03
The Role of Community Health Workers in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
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 ...
November 23, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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45:29
Caring and Advocating for Provider Mental health, Pt 2.
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.&nbs...
October 13, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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43:45
Addressing Social Determinants with Technology Series: Part two, Point Click Care and Collective Medical
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...
September 29, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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43:39
Addressing Stigmas in Healthcare
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 add...
July 20, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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57:08
Engaging Patients with Complex Care Needs
It's the Caring as Communities one-year anniversary, and Dr. Enrique Enguidanos steps away from role of host and instead shares his own insights after over a decade of dedicated work in the complex care space. Tune in as he shares key strategie...
June 23, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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47:33
Addressing Social Determinants with Technology Series: Part one, Aunt Bertha
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, Erine Gray—CEO and founder of Aunt Bertha—in this tech series and g...
May 31, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:32
Optimizing Opioid Bridge Programs
Opioids remain a leading cause of death, but success at lowering these numbers is being found through the use of opioid bridge programs that connect individuals reporting to the ED for relief from an opioid addiction with next-day addiction rec...
April 24, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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51:54
Creating Coalitions of Care
It's said that "it takes a village," and caring for vulnerable and complex patient populations is no exception.Listen as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos discusses with Victor Murray, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and Cesar ...
March 18, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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45:55