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How Empathy, Education, Communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. It has truly been an honor taking care of this fine population. Did you enjoy this post?

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Keith Algozzine, Founder and CEO of UCM Health

Digital Health Today

The ER is the worst place in the world from a consumer standpoint: you have to drive there, it’s around the four walls of a hospital, it’s a huge wait, and it’s often really expensive. Yet people continue to flock to it, and it is because of the care that they receive there. That’s really the solution.