We’re back for part two of our series with Dr. John H. Vassall, physician executive for Quality, Safety and Equity.
Comagine Health is surveying Oregon Medicaid recipients about their health care on behalf of the Oregon Health Authority (OHA). The purpose of the survey is to find out how people who have received mental health services through the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) feel about those services.
By now we’ve all heard the staggering rates of overdoses — over 100,000 dead in one year. There is another side to this story. The side of redemption, hope, recovery.
It is estimated that over 20 million people are in recovery from addiction.
Advance care planning (ACP) offers benefits by ensuring goals and preferences of long-term care residents are being met, emotional stress for surrogates is reduced and a basis for informed conversations and treatment decisions is available for providers.
To combat low uptake of the bivalent COVID booster among nursing home residents, Comagine Health has created a communications kit that contains messaging and collateral aimed at family members of people in long-term care facilities and those who may be entering centers following hospital discharg
According to International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.” Pain can range from tolerable to debilitating and can be described as sh
One of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that people may be faced with a serious illness or a medical emergency that require vital decisions about their medical care, and sometimes those decisions can't be made by the patient themselves.
On May 11, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officially concluded the Publ
As part of our CMS QIN-QIO work, Comagine Health has developed interactive community reports to help visualize issues facing people with Medicare.
Nursing homes are people’s homes. Unfortunately, many of our nation’s nursing homes are not built to provide the privacy, safety and environmental choice a home requires.
