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By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Aug 21, 2024

HealthWell Foundation Achieves One Million Patients Assisted Milestone

The HealthWell Foundation has achieved a significant milestone by providing financial assistance to one million underinsured patients to help them afford critical, often lifesaving, treatments. Since awarding its first grant in 2004, HealthWell has provided medication copayment and insurance premium assistance across more than 90 disease areas, including over 30…more.

Categories: Access to Care, Barriers to Care
By Krista Zodet, President/CEO, HealthWell Foundation | Dec 13, 2023

Breaking Down Barriers to Care: A Look Back at 2023

In the midst of this season of gratitude and giving, I am grateful for many things: My good health, my family and friends, my rewarding career and dedicated staff, and the support of individual and corporate donors whose giving allows HealthWell to assist so many people in need. Your generous…more.

Categories: Access to Care, Barriers to Care
By Krista Zodet, President/CEO, HealthWell Foundation | Nov 27, 2023

Give the Gift of Help, Healing and Hope on Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday inspires millions around the world to unleash the power of their generosity to help others. The concept behind the movement is one that Real World Health Care and the HealthWell Foundation hold close to our collective hearts as part of our shared commitment to supporting patient communities. This…more.

Categories: Access to Care, Barriers to Care
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Oct 25, 2023

HealthWell Foundation to Support Cancer Moonshot

The HealthWell Foundation was honored to recently have been recognized by the Cancer Moonshot Initiative for its past efforts and future commitments to assist oncology patients. The Cancer Moonshot Initiative, coordinated through The White House, is mobilizing efforts nationally to prevent more than four million cancer deaths by 2047 and…more.

Categories: Barriers to Care
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Oct 18, 2023

Oral Oncolytics Offer Advantages & Pose Challenges for Cancer Patients

Oral oncolytics – targeted cancer medications self-administered in pill form at home instead of intravenously in a cancer clinic or the hospital – have freed patients from the burdens associated with commutes to and from, and hours spent in infusion centers. However, while these oral medications are equally as efficacious…more.

Categories: Barriers to Care
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Jul 12, 2023

Oncology Pharmacists Help Cancer Patients Navigate Treatment

If you are a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy, do you know everyone on your care team? You probably know your medical oncologist well, and the nurse(s) in the infusion center. Perhaps you’re on a first name basis with the reception desk personnel and the technician who draws your blood. You…more.

Categories: Access to Care, Barriers to Care
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Jun 14, 2023

No One Left Alone Addresses Cancer Health Disparities at the Local Level

As the president of the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) in 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kashyap Patel, MD, was troubled by the significant health care disparities faced by racial and ethnic minorities. He started to investigate how where someone lives – down to their individual zip code…more.

Categories: Barriers to Care, Food and Transportation Disparities, Health Disparities, Racial and Ethnic Disparities
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | May 3, 2023

Don’t Let a Tank of Gas Stand in the Way of Needed Medical Treatment

The diagnosis can be frightening enough. Hearing you or your child has cancer, a rare disease or other chronic health condition can send the heart sinking and the mind spinning. Is the condition treatable? What do treatments entail? How will your quality of life be impacted? Then comes the financial…more.

Categories: Barriers to Care, Food and Transportation Disparities, Health Disparities
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Apr 19, 2023

CancerCare: Barriers to Proper Nutrition are Both Financial and Physical

As part of our series on Food and Transportation Disparities, Real World Health Care reached out to Leeann Medina-Martinez, LCSW, CancerCare’s Disparities Program coordinator. CancerCare is the leading national organization providing free, professional support services and information to help people manage the emotional, practical and financial challenges of cancer. We…more.

Categories: Barriers to Care, Food and Transportation Disparities
By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff | Mar 22, 2023

Food Insecurity in America

Most of us are taught from an early age that to be healthy, we must eat healthy foods. Poor diets – those in which people consume excess fat, sugar and calories – are linked to a range of health problems including obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and hypertension. For some…more.

Categories: Barriers to Care, Food and Transportation Disparities, Health Disparities, Uncategorized