110: Health for all FOLX
55 min
Addressing Healthcare Disparities in LGBTQIA+ Communities
In the latest episode of our podcast, we delve into the critical issues surrounding **healthcare access** for historically marginalized groups, with a focus on the **LGBTQIA+ community**. Despite advances in healthcare, significant barriers remain, particularly in obtaining gender-affirming care and navigating systems that often fail to support, and sometimes exclude, LGBTQIA+ individuals.
FOLX HEALTH: Pioneering Inclusive Telehealth Solutions
Join us as mission-driven nurses Teddy Tinnell MSN, RN (he/him) and Kate Steinle MSN, NP (she/hers) discuss their work with **FOLX HEALTH**, the largest LGBTQIA+-centric health and wellness platform. They share insights into how technology can be harnessed to dismantle barriers to care, ensuring that telehealth services are respectful, expertly delivered, scalable, and tailored to meet the specific needs and disparities faced by the LGBTQIA+ community.
Innovating Telehealth for Comprehensive and Inclusive Care
This episode explores the transformative strategies implemented by FOLX HEALTH to redesign and rebuild a telehealth delivery platform centered on the unique requirements of LGBTQIA+ individuals. By focusing on inclusivity and accessibility, FOLX HEALTH is not only enhancing the quality of care but also expanding access to exceptional healthcare services for all.
About See You Now Podcast
SEE YOU NOW is a podcast that shines a light on the real people changing the status quo in health: from nurses working in labor and delivery, with infectious diseases, and in hospice; to nurse allies in politics, business and tech. Created in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson and the American Nurses Association.
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Resources
- FOLX HEALTH
- Nursing Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Populations | ANA Enterprise
- Pride Month has started but what does that mean? A look at what it is, how it's celebrated
- 5 Things You Might Not Know About FOLX
- Folx Health is putting identity-affirming healthcare in-network
- Fostering health equity for LGBTQIA+ employees | Accolade
- How FOLX is Reimagining Health Care for LGBTQIA+ Communities
- Care designed for a marginalized community
- Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures in 2024 | American Civil Liberties Union
- Healthcare Equality Index 2024 - Human Rights Campaign
- Health for Humanity Report
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- U.S. LGBT Identification Steady at 7.2%
- Tech-Enabled Solutions as a Tool to Address Health-Related Social Needs in Medicaid: Opportunities and Policy Considerations
- The Tech-Enabled Model Reshaping Healthcare
- NIH-funded study highlights the financial toll of health disparities in the United States
- The Economic Burden of Racial, Ethnic, and Educational Health Inequities in the US
- Guidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People | UCSF
- The Fenway Institute Education & Training
- Innovative Ways Johnson & Johnson Proudly Supports the LGBTQIA+ Community
