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 ...

Deupree, who serves as the co-director of the school’s Leadership and Health Policy Initiative and director of Health Policy Partnerships, is one of only two nurses to be selected in this year’s class ...

The Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a one-day workshop to explore the implications of health literacy for palliative care. An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a public workshop to explore ...

Taking care of our own health and that of our family is an ongoing part of everyday life, not just when we visit a doctor or hospital. Increasing our health literacy can help us protect our health, ...

The ACA will directly impact individuals and their interactions with the health care system in many ways. In the context of the commissioned paper (described in Chapter 2 and available in Appendix C), ...

Male patient tells the doctor about his health complaints. Over the years, I have talked to thousands of patients and community members who make it painfully clear that our health communication ...

Low or limited health literacy is a predictor of poorer health outcomes and health disparities. Patient populations in the United States who are at higher risk of low/limited health literacy are ...

Testing patients for levels of health literacy holds potential for improving physician-patient communication, according to a study published in Surgery. The study authors administered a two-minute ...

A recent review noted the impact of low medication adherence and health literacy on patients with difficult-to-control asthma, which supports the need for interventions that could improve both aspects ...

Several evidence-based health literacy resources may be beneficial in health plan settings to improve organizational health literacy, personal health literacy, and health equity. Objectives: Numerous ...

The ACRL Board of Directors approved a new Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Nursing (PDF) at its January 29, 2026, virtual meeting. The ACRL Heal ...