By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent (updated 8/17/19) | In some ways, it’s easier to define how health care is changing by how it isn’t: It isn’t going to become more physician-centric. “Right now,…
With the changing health care landscape and state population, South Carolina must create a system to support, educate and train family caregivers. Community-based providers such as direct-care workers, family caregivers…
Creating a behavioral health system in South Carolina that fully meets the needs of residents and the behavioral health workforce is critical to improving the state’s overall health. The South…
A new report developed with the support of Tidelands Health aims to improve health outcomes in South Carolina by encouraging a more holistic and coordinated approach to meet the population’s…
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Read more The IMPH Workforce for Health report outlines recommendations to decrease disparities in accessibility to mental health services for minority groups.
South Carolina should set in motion fundamental changes to its health care workforce and depend more on professionals with lower levels of education, a new public health report says. Read…
Wilkerson: Investing in S.C.’s health care workforce The needs of South Carolina’s health care industry are ever-changing. Our state must work towards eliminating health disparities currently experienced by rural and minority…
IMPH Workforce for Health Taskforce member and Chief Clinical Officer of Prisma Health, Dr. Angelo Sinopoli, authored an Op-Ed about the recently released Taskforce report and the questions stakeholders from across…
Community-based providers such as direct-care workers, family caregivers and behavioral health workers (among others) have customarily taken a backseat to other health care providers in terms of funding, support, visibility…