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- 24 Jan 2022
- News
Rising COVID Cases in Us Nursing Homes Prompt Hospital Warnings
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
directly from a presentation on the Boston Basics made at YALP in 2016 by Kennedy School faculty member Ron Ferguson. That year, Chattanooga YALPers made bringing the initiative home the focus of their whiteboard project. Just a few... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
brief pitch to the judges and audience, with the more than 400 audience members then invited to vote for a Crowd Favorite winner. Grand Prize winner M7 Health is “making nursing jobs work for nurses.” Cofounders Ilana Springer Borkenstein... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
have driven the company’s expansion into women’s health and a host of programs for the elderly population, from nursing and rehab programs to palliative home care—each pioneering new approaches to age-old... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
patients after they leave the hospital, during what is called their “post-acute care.” Many seniors don’t simply return to life as normal. They first need to go to a nursing home or rehab center or schedule... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
more quickly from in-person services to virtual. Call center workers, for example, had access to the Kyruus scheduling function online so that, Gardner says, “Overnight, they switched from working with 400 others in a large building to working from View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
behalf of the funeral home were a revelation. A retired nursing professional, she had never really been involved in any of its operations and admitted she didn’t know much about what was needed to sustain it... View Details
- 13 Mar 2020
- News
Expanding Cancer Care
I spent pretty much every weekend going to nursing homes and making house calls with my dad and spending a lot of time around pretty sick patients. So for most of my life—my adult life—I decided I actually... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can provide more... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
can win this time. It was really meaningful to us to take home one of the prizes this year, especially in the alumni competition, which is even more competitive.” Shah says competing in the NVC has yielded invaluable feedback and powerful... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and management consultant seemed... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network (BTN), which grew out of a Sontag Foundation support group for brain cancer patients and caregivers in Northern Florida that Rick and Susan relied on as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects. To date, the BTN’s View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
to make informed decisions about treatment. To date, the Brain Tumor Network’s nurse navigators and social workers have helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. Sontag’s people-first ethos also guides the selection of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
years and turned into the global leader in the home medical product industry. Spotting a shiny red three-wheel motorized scooter, he sits down to demonstrate its mobility. "Our products aren't just about illness," he says. "They're about... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
my parents have progressed to the nursing home of their retirement community, I cherish our memories of happy times together when they were more mobile. I realize that as a small business owner, working less... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
were the earliest domesticated animals, and they really do become part of the family. They have total devotion, ask for nothing, and give so much. Being around a dog is an absolutely wonderful experience. You can see the emotion in people's eyes when you take a dog... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
in a wheelchair, badly bruised from injuries sustained the day before that had been caused by falling in her home as a result of poor eyesight. “She said she couldn’t take it anymore and felt it just wasn’t worth going on like this,”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
1983, Middlebrooks had envisioned that after having children she would "take six months off and then get a nurse or live-in maid." The reality, she reports, was even better. "My sister-in-law was staying at View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
teenage sons.” By example: “My parents didn’t teach me their values around work and family—I absorbed them through their example and expectations. My mother was a nurse who was always helping others, and my dad chose to work as a doctor... View Details