Margaret Comeau: Legislative Briefing on California Children with Special Health Care Needs – Video

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Children with Special Health Care Needs in Medi-Cal and the California Exchange - Margaret Comeau, The Catalyst Center.

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Advocate Health Care Boosting Stroke Awareness Through Social Media and Brand Journalism

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OAK BROOK, IL--(Marketwired - May 09, 2013) - Oak Brook-based Advocate Health Care is pulling out all of the stops to help raise awareness about stroke and stroke prevention during National Stroke Awareness Month. Using an integrated strategy, Advocate is not only relying on marketing but is tapping into social media and building a strong brand journalism platform to engage patients and the communities it serves.

"We want to make our footprint when it comes to building healthy communities across Chicagoland and beyond," said Advocate's director of public affairs, Stephanie Johnson. "This is about meeting patients where they're having discussions and getting information and that happens to be online."

On May 16 at 11:30 a.m., Advocate will host a live chat with Interventional Neuroradiologist, Thomas Grobelny, MD, about stroke and brain aneurysm. The program will stream live on Advocate's web and Facebook pages and give viewers a chance to ask any questions they want in real-time.

Last month's edition of AdvocateLive garnered nearly 74,000 views and nearly 100 questions for guest nutritionist, Jaclyn Sprague.

Stroke is also the theme this month on Advocate's new health website, health enews, which launched in March and already has nearly 35,000 subscribers to its daily newsfeed.

Health enews keeps readers plugged into daily breaking health news and also has plenty of useful health tips and features. Reporters can also use the site to get story ideas and make connections with Advocate's experts.

Already, national news outlets including CNN and Chicago Tribune have covered stories based on articles featured on the website.

Stroke is the topic of conversation among Advocate's nearly 18,000 Facebook fans and 1,200 Twitter followers as well this month. Advocate hopes this full-throttle approach will continue to engage patients and the communities it serves and make a huge impact on helping people adopt healthier lifestyle habits.

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Ghost Issue? Health Care and the Aged (in Opinion)

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A rapidly aging population is just one of many health system challenges facing BC's next government.

We have been surprised, to say the least, at the lack of public discourse around health care during this election period. As a top-of-mind issue for British Columbians, you'd think it would be as central as the always large and looming economy. So what are the burning issues in health care, and how do the party platforms stack up? Here's our take, with a particular focus on seniors.

The challenge:

When we talk about "health care" we're talking about a large and complex system that includes three major areas: primary care (family doctors and health centres), acute care (hospitals and emergency services), and home and community based care (services for seniors and others who require support in their homes, communities or residential facilities). There are also issues related to technology, drugs, education and training, funding models, integration across different parts of the system, patient rights, privatization... and more.

Health care is by far the largest expenditure in the provincial budget. Dire warnings in recent years about the financial "sustainability" of Medicare have prompted fears that aging baby boomers will soon overwhelm the system, leaving few resources for the needs of younger generations. The CCPA has published extensively on this issue, pointing out that it is the costs associated with new health technologies, such as new surgical techniques, diagnostics, prescription drugs, and end-of-life interventions that are key cost drivers, not the growing number of seniors. And our research has shown how we can improve access to surgical care and prescription drugs while also helping to contain costs.

But when it comes to seniors and the aging population, the home and community care system is particularly vital. Ask any community seniors group in B.C. how this system is doing and you're likely to hear a similar story: it's more of a fragmented patchwork of services than a system, it is extremely confusing to navigate, and seniors and their families are ending up in impossible situations as a result. It is a story well-documented by B.C.'s Ombudsperson in her recent landmark systemic investigation into the crisis in seniors care.

Problems of underfunding and lack of coordination date back to the 1990s, but worsened significantly over the last decade due to reduced access to services and poorly planned restructuring. Between 2001/02 and 2009/10, for example, access to residential care dropped by 21 per cent, and access to home support dropped by 30 per cent. As the July 2012 CCPA study, Caring for BC Aging Population: Improving Health Care for All finds:

The impact of these changes can be seen in the 35 per cent increase since 2005/06 in hospital beds occupied by patients who couldn't be discharged because the appropriate residential or home health services were not available.

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Keynote Speaker: Jack Uldrich • Presented by SpeakInc • Unlearning Futurist

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TEDxGR 2013: We need to 'rethink the entire concept of school,' says classroom futurist

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI With your help, the classroom of the future could be right around the corner.

Thats the belief of classroom futurist Luis de la Fuente, who spoke Thursday, May 9 at the TEDxGrand Rapids event at the Civic Theatre in downtown Grand Rapids.

We will soon be able to rethink the entire concept of school, he said. Instead of groups of student moving through a curriculum in unison, each student will be able benefit from an experience that is unique, interactive and personal, and tailored to learning practices and needs.

De la Fuente leads The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundations efforts to transform todays classrooms into personalized learning environments that enable teaching with technology.

During his TED talk, de la Fuente said students today have shuffled in droves from class to class for decades, and if they absorb enough material, they are moved on en masse like widgets in an assembly line

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That education model is a relic in today's world, where kids are computer whizzes by the time they are 5, he said.

How we learn needs to keep pace with how we live, he said.

Todays teachers need to be counselors, disciplinarians, teachers all in one and we dont pay them enough for working inside a one-size-fits-all school model.

de la Fuente said personalized learning is the future of education, marked by differentiated instruction, freedom of pace, place, and engagement.

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World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2013 [Live Windows Project – ECV Atlantique, Nantes] – Video

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Freedom Scat – Jean du Voyage feat. Drea D’nur and Quadir Lateef [TRAILER] – Video

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