Health Without Gaps continues to support our vulnerable population.

PLYMOUTH HEALTH BRIEFS

Support groups at BID-Plymouth The Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, 275 Sandwich St. in Plymouth (formerly the Jordan Hospital), offers numerous support groups on a regular basis. Visit www.bidplymouth.org/calendar or call 508-746-2000 for details. Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may […]

HEALTHCARE DIVERSITY

Quality care is providing the right care at the right time in the right place. In order to provide quality care, one needs to understand that quality care comes when each person is treated the same, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability.  Far too often, patient care fails to meet the standard […]

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS FACE UNCERTAINTY OVER OBAMACARE REPEAL

A little-discussed side effect of the ObamaCare repeal effort could be losing gains that community health centers — a lifeline for the nation’s most vulnerable — have made. Republicans’ vow to gut President Obama’s signature domestic achievement has thrust all facets of the health system into uncertainty — and community health centers are no different. […]

10 GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2018

When we set out to compile our annual list of global health issues to watch this year, it seemed like all bad news. And true, that’s often what we deal with in global health—the problems that need tackling, the suffering we can help alleviate. But then stories and columns like this one cheer us up. They remind […]