Earlier this month, 14 Pittsburgh health care professionals and patients gathered for the first meeting of the RCA Pittsburgh chapter!
The RCA Steering Committee met for a leadership summit last week, their first in-person meeting since the inauguration.
Shantrice Appleby is only a second-year medical student, but her medical education really began in elementary school. Appleby often accompanied her chronically ill grandmother to the doctor, and would feel frustrated when the treatments they gave her didn’t help. She took … Read more
We’re getting the word out about Right Care. Do you have a unique viewpoint on drug prices, overmedication, access to care, or another right care topic? Are you interested in writing something for local media but don’t know where to start? … Read more
Becka DeSmidt (pictured on the left) is Community Manager of the Open School team at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). In this role, she coaches health care professionals, students, and trainees who are working to improve the quality and safety … Read more
On Saturday, 23 members of Right Care Boston gathered for a long-awaited strategy retreat, where they would use a year’s worth of knowledge from listening tours to create actionable campaigns. After hours of brainstorming and discussion and three rounds of … Read more
How do electronic medical records (EMRs) affect the way we practice and experience medicine, and what we can do about it? Read our write-up of the recent WBUR town hall event to find out!
The RCA Nursing Council is full of knowledgeable, passionate, and hardworking members. Meet three of them by reading our member profiles!
A single word or phrase in a radiology report can make the difference between right care and wrong care.
When my physician society didn’t speak up about the election of Donald Trump or the appointment of Tom Price, I could convince myself this was reasonable. But then the AHCA came out, and I could not stay silent.