In this month’s episode, we dive into the increasingly important topic of Medical Respite —a critical service that provides short-term medical care for people experiencing homelessness who are too ill or frail to recover on the streets, but not sick enough to stay in a hospital. Dr. Enguidanos is joined by Jillian Olmsted and Dr. Jeff McNally from The INN Between , Utah’s first and only medical respite and end-of-life care facility for individuals experiencing homelessness. Speakers share the fi...
Apr 23, 2025•45 min
Join us this month as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos chats with John Whigham about his experience as a community health worker—and how his history of homelessness, food insecurity, and addiction have allowed him to find both empathy and empowerment in his street medicine work today. JOHN WHIGHAM: John Whigham is a dedicated Community Health Worker (CHW) specializing in street medicine at AHN's Center for Inclusion Health. John has faced many of the same challenges as the populations he serves, including...
Dec 24, 2024•37 min
Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Director of Operations at CBCS, Asia Brown, shares her journey and curiosity about people and how it set her on a path to non-fiction writing and then drove her into social work, and eventually to the helping side of getting to know people. Asia Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a background in case management and q...
Nov 12, 2024•43 min
Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Crystal Salazar shares her journey starting as a young, single mother and arriving full circle as a navigator working in New Mexico as a role model, mentor, and support for new parents.
Sep 19, 2024•37 min
Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Jessica Placencia shares the catalyst for her career change from EMS services to care navigation and the role of small misses in creating barriers to big change.
Aug 26, 2024•38 min
One year following the launch of the innovative INSPIRE program, Dr. Enrique Enguidanos interviews those involved in its work on lessons learned in this journey to advance community partnerships in healthcare throughout the country. INSPIRE’s goal is to create tools, resources and learning/coaching models that will meet the varied needs of healthcare stakeholders and people with lived experience to advance meaningful partnership in their communities to deliver better quality healthcare....
Jul 18, 2024•44 min
Join us for this special episode of Caring as Communities! Dr. Enrique Enguidanos joins with Asia Brown, CBCS, and Chris Douglas, FindHelp.org, to discuss key challenges facing individuals in accessing critical resources and identify patient-centric solutions that improve access and maintain individual dignity. BONUS CONTENT: This episode includes key testimonials from patients with complex health needs about resource navigation and successful solutions!
Apr 24, 2024•46 min
Nutrition has vast effects on individual and population health—impacting obesity rates, chronic conditions, and quality of life. Yet despite its proven, wide-reaching effects, nutrition remains largely overlooked as a social determinant of health. Dr. Livia Santiago-Rosado, MD, Commissioner of the Dutchess County (NY) Department of Behavioral and Community Health, joins Dr. Enrique Enguidanos to discuss this important topic and how communities can work together to make small tweaks and big impac...
Feb 19, 2024•48 min
Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, community health worker in Virginia, Gerron, shares his journey coming from a background of crime and finding purpose in helping others escape similar life patterns by addressing the environments in which they live through love and compassion.
Dec 07, 2023•47 min
Listen as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos interviews the Camden Coalition and advocates who are spearheading INSPIRE , a national strategy to advance community partnerships in healthcare. INSPIRE’s goal is to create tools, resources and learning/coaching models that will meet the varied needs of healthcare stakeholders and people with lived experience to advance meaningful partnership in their communities to deliver better quality healthcare....
Sep 07, 2023•44 min
Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Rose Wheeler shares highlights from her career and the impact that lived experience can have on patient rapport.
Jul 18, 2023•40 min
Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Heather Koontz shares highlights from her career and the need for empathy in healthcare.
Jun 20, 2023•34 min
Burnout is a critical challenge among healthcare providers, with 77% of workers citing some form of burnout. Join us as Laura Buckley, LSW and Founder/Managing Director at Buckley Collaborative, and Emet Bergman, LCSW and Psychotherapist at Transformative Psychotherapy, share their insights with Dr. Enrique Enguidanos about identifying, preventing, and addressing burnout in the clinical workplace.
May 01, 2023•55 min
Community outreach is an effective approach to addressing the issues of complex medical and social care, but setting up such programs can pose unique challenges as well. Listen as Natasha Dravid, MBA and Senior Director of Care Management and Redesign Initiatives at the Camden Coalition, shares best practices for creating consistency and long-term financial viability in implementing and maintaining community outreach programs for individuals with complex care needs.
Jan 24, 2023•43 min
The holidays present unique challenges when it comes to supporting complex care populations. Join in as Jeneen Skinner, Senior Clinical Manager at the Camden Coalition, returns to discuss ways to improve care for complex patients—and the clinicians who care for them!
Dec 19, 2022•46 min
Patients with high resource utilization are “touching” multiple resources within any given community, but in most places across the country, any care received is happening within silos. Dr. Enrique Enguidanos welcomes Ray Michaelson, Program Manager for the Mat-Su Health Foundation, to talk about the need and best practices for setting up multidisciplinary care teams to break down these silos.
Jul 28, 2022•53 min
Dr. Joanne Roberts shares with Dr. Enguidanos what we need to understand about death and palliative care—both as healthcare providers and as a larger community—when supporting individuals who have a terminal disease. Join us as Dr. Roberts shares about navigating her own terminal diagnosis as a palliative care physician and how we can better support individuals with terminal diseases to live their life vitally and fully and ensure they're not alone.
Jul 05, 2022•41 min
In Part 1 of this two-part series on vulnerable populations, guest speaker Kara James—Nurse Practitioner with Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles—talks about the increase in maternal morbidity the U.S. is seeing, its impact specifically on BIPOC communities, and what we can all be doing to better support all mothers and their babies for healthier beginnings for all. *Correction: It should be 50K women experience life-threatening postpartum complications, not 500K.*
May 24, 2022•35 min
Data has correlated Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with increases in adult Rx use, drug dependency, and more. Listen as we discuss with Elizabeth Guroff, MA, LCMFT, and Consultant, Practice Improvement and Consulting, for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing the role ACEs play in population health, why trauma informed care is critical, and the opportunities we have as communities to better understand the role both positive and adverse childhood experiences have on health outcomes and ...
Feb 28, 2022•32 min
According to the Critical Care Nurses Association, 80% of nurses report being verbally abused at least once in the past year, and 47% report being physically abused. Tune in as Kristen Choi and Anna Dermenchyan discuss the increasing importance of addressing violence against healthcare workers, inside and out of clinic walls.
Jan 20, 2022•46 min
In this episode of Caring as Communities, Paula Blackwell, MBA and Allison Robinson, MPH discuss with Dr. Enrique Enguidanos the increasing importance of community health workers in supporting individuals with social determinants of health—as well as the value of having advocates with "lived experience" to help build trust between healthcare providers and communities. Guests Paula Blackwell, MBA, Executive Director, Central Area on Health Education (AHEC) Allison Robinson, MPH, Associate Program...
Nov 23, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Learn the mental health challenges faced by nurses and physicians across the country—including burnout compassion fatigue, and moral injury—following the COVID-19 pandemic with the country's leaders in provider health research and advocacy. Special Guests: Bernard Chang, MD, PhD, FACEP and Vice Chair of Research and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center Lisa Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN , and Director, Emergency Nursing Research at the Emergency Nurse...
Oct 13, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 9
HealthTech is paving the way for addressing social determinants of health through a myriad of platforms, softwares, and more. Join us as we talk with health IT industry leader, Benjamin Zaniello—Chief Medical Officer at Point Click Care—in this tech series and get insights for reducing gaps in care. A practicing Infectious Disease physician, Ben is also a technologist at heart, focused on healthcare innovation for Population Health and the transition to value-based care for all patients. His pas...
Sep 30, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Stigmas promote feelings of isolation, unworthiness, and unwelcomeness, leading to discomfort and distrust. Yet they are a common reality in healthcare—especially for patients with social determinants of health, chronic conditions, or addictions. Drs. Stephen Anderson, FACEP , and Donald Stader, FACEP , join Jeneen Skinner of the Camden Coalition to discuss how we can reduce these stigmas in our workplaces.
Jul 21, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 7
It's the Caring as Communities one-year anniversary, and Dr. Enrique Enguidanos steps away from role of host and instead shares his own insights after over a decade of dedicated work in the complex care space. Tune in as he shares key strategies for engaging patients with complex care needs by working in tandem with community resources.
Jun 24, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
HealthTech is paving the way for addressing social determinants of health through a myriad of platforms, softwares, and more. Join us as we talk with health IT industry leader, Erine Gray—CEO and founder of Aunt Bertha—in this tech series and get insights for reducing gaps in care. Erine Gray has been working on business and technology consulting projects for more than 15 years and is the Founder and CEO of Aunt Bertha. Aunt Bertha’s mission is to make human service program information more acce...
Jun 01, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Opioids remain a leading cause of death, but success at lowering these numbers is being found through the use of opioid bridge programs that connect individuals reporting to the ED for relief from an opioid addiction with next-day addiction recovery programs. Arianna Campbell and Dr. Loni Jay, two experts in the California Bridge Program share what successful bridge programs need in this month's episode of Caring As Communities.
Apr 25, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 4
It's said that "it takes a village," and caring for vulnerable and complex patient populations is no exception. Listen as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos discusses with Victor Murray, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and Cesar Armendariz, Inland Empire Health Plan, what makes an effective coalition, strategies for getting started, and how communities are pulling together the skilled and financial resources to make these coalitions a reality....
Mar 18, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 3
M edical respite care tries to bridge the gap for homeless men and women who are too sick to be on the street or be in the shelter, but not sick enough to need to be in the hospital. Dr. David Munson, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, and Andy McMahon, Vice President, Health and Human Services Policy UnitedHealthcare Community & State, discuss how to implement successful respite programs in this episode of Caring As Communities.
Feb 14, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Homelessness remains a key issue for half a million people in the US each year, with the prolonged pandemic and subsequent unemployment and evictions suggesting that number could climb. Rob McCann, CEO of Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington and Damián Mazzotta, Founder and Chairman of The Shower of Hope and Principle of The Long Term Partners share innovative programs Spokane and greater LA are using to address homelessness—and better care for our communities in need. Panelists: Rob McCann,...
Jan 11, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 1
