Partnership between Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, Hampton & Peninsula Health Districts providing health literacy class to ...

LMH Health, 325 Maine St., is pictured in May 2021. During my residency in Denver, my pager buzzed with a message from the emergency department. I frowned with worry when I saw Mrs. K’s name listed ...

The Hampton & Peninsula Health Districts' partnership with Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail offers a novel program boosting ...

Health literacy is a concept that addresses an individual’s ability to “find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.” ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Mercy Health is sponsoring a Fall Into Health Literacy event from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Kent Branch Library at 3101 Collingwood Blvd. The community event aims to educate ...

Dr. Darien Sutton, ABC News Medical Correspondent & Emergency Medicine Physician, talks medical misinformation and health literacy.

HPHD says the partnership began in June 2025 when they held its first Health Literacy class in the jail’s “We Are All In This ...

Mr C, a 72-year-old patient with type 2 diabetes, is brought to the emergency department comatose with a blood sugar of 29 mg/dL. When seen in his primary care provider’s office the previous day, his ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The complexity of the U.S. health care system makes it ...

Include Family Members. As Jones, Treiber, and Jones state, “it takes a village” to assist a patient who has low health literacy. 13 Not only do the various members of the healthcare team serve in ...