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Provider urges Mount Pleasant to create community health liaison to connect hospitals, nursing homes and veterans
Summary
Shalita Bratton, an independent primary care provider, told the council Mount Pleasant lacks a community health liaison and described how such a position could reduce ER visits, improve transitions of care, and connect veterans and homebound patients to services. Council members asked about budget timing and partnerships.
Shalita Bratton told the Mount Pleasant City Council the city does not have a community health liaison and outlined how such a position would connect hospitals, nursing homes, home-health agencies and city services to reduce unnecessary emergency-room use and improve care coordination for veterans and older residents.
Bratton, who said she practices at 2001 West Ferguson Road and conducts mobile medicine, described existing…
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