Maternity care has been on my mind lately. Mainly because my family is expecting our second child this summer and because of how new state policies intersect with our perinatal bundle. During this last legislative session, I watched with enthusiasm as Senate Bill 5068, that extended Medicaid coverage up to 12 months after a person...

Much of our conversation in the opioid prescribing for older adults workgroup has focused on how one’s body is psychologically different with each passing decade – metabolism, risk of side effects, pros and cons of different treatments. Our bodies tend to change in predictable ways. In addition to this body-focused process, the socio-political-cultural world in...

Vaccines are a revelation – countless lives saved and countless more improved due to not contracting a disease. The rapid development, production, and dissemination of our newest vaccine, to SARS-COV-2, is an even more remarkable addition to this legacy. Even more, our collective ability to pivot gives us leverage to push back when anyone in...

Our Bree Collaborative website is now more fully part of the Foundation for Health Care Quality – see our new address here: www.qualityhealth.org/bree/. All the content you know (and love) will be easier to access – you can see our past topics here and current topics including all meeting materials here: Cervical Cancer Screening Opioid...

At last week’s Bree Collaborative meeting we adopted an primary care recommendations as well as voted to adopt adding pediatric care to last year’s perinatal bundle. Read our Perinatal Bundle | Read our Primary Care Recommendations We have leaned into bundled payments to solve some of the quality issues for specific clinical services for a...

Nearly all of us have moved in some way or another into operating within the virtual space. My family spent a virtual holiday followed by a virtual new year’s celebration with family and friends. As a community, we have shifted to virtual clinical care, wondering all the while whether we are achieving the same outcomes...