The ZIP Code Lottery: 15 Years of Evidence, One Solvable Crisis #ActAgainstAmputation

In 2009, California hospitals collectively documented 7,973 lower-extremity amputations in diabetic adults. Dr. Carl Stevens at Harbor-UCLA decided to ask a question most people in medicine had quietly avoided: where do these patients live? The answer, published five years later in Health Affairs, was the kind of finding that is simultaneously obvious in retrospect and... Continue Reading →

Health Services Forms New Limb-Preservation Workgroup @WeAreLAHealth @HarborUCLA_VS @RanchoRehab @LACUSCMedCenter @KeckSchool_USC @USC #ActAgainstAmputation @ALPSLimb

 This article from the LA County Department of Health Services via Evan Raff Diabetes-related amputations represent a major preventable health risk for patients living with diabetes and lower extremity limb loss in particular is one of the most devastating events in a patient’s life, with five-year mortality approaching 70% and even higher in the population... Continue Reading →

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