Limited health literacy is a costly issue for the healthcare system, leading to unnecessary morbidity and mortality. Enhancing health literacy could prevent nearly 1 million hospital visits annually ...

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 ...

In the rush to digitize care through AI, telehealth and predictive analytics, many organizations have overlooked a fundamental variable that determines whether any of these innovations succeed: health ...

A 29-year-old African-American woman with three days of abdominal pain and fever was brought to a Baltimore emergency department by her family. After a brief evaluation she was told that she would ...

Adult literacy advocate Toni Cordell recounts the story of feeling comforted when her doctor told her that her medical concern could be solved with an easy surgery. She agreed to proceed without ...

Our teams at Lee Health take great pride in being trusted sources of health information and serving as advocates and partners for our patients and their families. For nearly 110 years, we have been ...