Research, Education, Advocacy. Justice.
This summer, for the first time, seven law students, two pharmacy students, and one medical student took on the daunting task of learning patient advocacy from entirely remote settings. Through the summer Clinical, interdisciplinary students work with clients who have approached the Center with a variety of health care challenges related to serious illness. In …
In a new course designed by CPP co-director Sarah Davis and CPP health systems instructor Mary Michaud, students in MPH and health professional programs learn how to “think in systems.” Medical Care and Public Health Systems 785, a core course in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Master’s of Public Health program, helps …
Imagine you barely have enough money to pay rent and buy food and you receive a parking ticket because you forgot to move your car to the alternative side of the street. Do you pay that ticket or feed your children? The unpaid parking ticket then racks up late fees and can lead to a …
When Wisconsin HealthCorps Volunteer Hannah Fleischman was placed as a coordinator with CPP’s Community Resource Navigator Program, she didn’t know what to expect. Now, after a year with the program, Fleischman says the lessons will follow her into medical school and throughout her career as a provider. The Community Resource Navigator Program, a partnership between …
Through her career-long focus on listening to, documenting, and understanding patients’ experiences in health care, Rachel Grob, leads research on gaps that others in health care often miss. Grob leads one team of researchers contributing to the Health Experiences Research Network (HERN), a consortium of research groups who employ a specific, rigorous set of qualitative …
HERN Develops Innovative Methodology for Studying/Disseminating Patients’ Experiences As use of web-based health information increases, the influence of patients’ experience has also grown rapidly. It can often be difficult, however, for users to identify authentic experiences and rigorous research on the web. In response to this concern, researchers at four American universities and the Veterans …
CPP Co-director and Clinical Professor of Law Sarah Davis joined experts and recognized leaders from the private and public sector committed to engaging patients as active partners to improve quality and patient safety within health systems. The National Quality Forum is a nonprofit membership organization advocating for innovation in health care quality improvement. Through a …
Millions of Americans struggle to pay medical bills, with over 20% of Wisconsinites reporting having a past due medical bill. Frustrating the situation are “surprise medical bills,” or charges billed when a person with insurance receives care from an out-of-network provider. This happens either by mistake, because the provider is practicing in an in-network facility, …
Whenever we can, we take what we learn from our individual cases and work to change policies or practices to prevent these problems from happening to others. In her letter, Meg wrote about a family stuck with a bill after being told a procedure was covered and did not need “prior-authorization.” It wasn’t the first …
Many patients and families enter the health care system already burdened with stressful situations. Legal issues can pose significant challenges when people try to secure a job, find stable housing, build credit, and access services. With funding from the Ira and Ineva Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grant, UW law and pre-law students work with patients …