Mehrnaz Ghorashi, DNP, is a family nurse practitioner (FNP) with Mass General Brigham Urgent Care. With over a decade of experience in urgent care settings, she joined our Boston Common location in 2021. In this Q&A, she shares what inspired her to pursue nursing, memorable patient moments, and debunks common misconceptions about urgent care.
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Mass General Brigham is an integrated academic health care system, uniting great minds to solve the hardest problems in medicine for our communities and the world. Mass General Brigham connects a full continuum of care across a system of academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, a health insurance plan, physician networks, community health centers, home care, and long-term care services. Mass General Brigham is a nonprofit organization that is committed to patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. In addition, Mass General Brigham is one of the nation’s leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
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https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/
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- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Somerville, Massachusetts
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- Nonprofit
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- Healthcare, Digital Health, Strategy, Innovation, Machine Learning, Finance, Human Resources, Community, and Workforce Development
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399 Revolution Dr
Somerville, Massachusetts 02145, US
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800 Boylston St
Boston, Massachusetts 02199, US
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Connecting with the communities we serve is essential to our mission of providing accessible and comprehensive healthcare to all. In this spirit, our Community Care Van recently joined a powwow organized by the Wampanoag tribe in Mashpee, Mass., and participated in Boston Puerto Rican Day. The team provided powwow participants critical healthcare services including blood pressure and diabetes care, health education materials and Narcan distribution. At Boston Puerto Rican Day at Franklin Park, the team offered health screenings and distributed free sunscreen, first aid kits and more. Working in partnership with our Outreach Program with Native American Communities and local community organizations, the Community Care Van team is helping to bridge gaps and restore wellness where it’s needed most. See where the Care Van will be next: http://spklr.io/6049sOSP.
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Have you ever wondered about your risk of developing stroke, dementia, depression or other brain diseases? Mass General Brigham researchers have actually developed a new quiz you can take that can help predict your risk of all of those conditions, called the McCance Brain Care Score™. The quiz evaluates 12 modifiable physical, lifestyle and social factors that can help patients protect their brain health, and they have now shown that it can predict risk of late-age depression as well. Take the quiz and read more about the McCance Brain Care Score™: http://spklr.io/6045sM9x Mass General Brigham authors include Jonathan Rosand, MD, MSc, Sanjula Dhillon Singh, MD, PhD, MSc, and colleagues at the McCance Center for Brain Health at MGH, along with Christopher D. Anderson, MD, MMSc, FAAN, and colleagues from Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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"We need to pass this extension now. It's a win-win for everyone," says Heather O'Sullivan MS, APRN, Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home president. In a recent Becker's Healthcare op-ed, she urges Congress to pass a 5-year extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver before it expires at the end of this year. Learn how this could impact our patients. http://spklr.io/6046sO6j
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Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are currently the most efficient option for intracranial gene therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Miguel C. Santoscoy, PhD, a research fellow in the Department of Neurology and Molecular Neurogenetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Casey A. Maguire, PhD, a gene delivery expert and 2023 Spark Awardee, and colleagues are working to increase AAV diffusion throughout the brain and increase transgene expression in cholinergic neurons, which regulate the activity of the most abundant striatal neurons and fine-tune a variety of brain functions. The team reports two improvements to AAV-based intracranial gene therapy in Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development. Read more: http://spklr.io/6047sJXX
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Celebrate 15 years of innovation with the Mass General Brigham Biobank! Discover how researchers are developing Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) using Biobank samples and data to identify genetic predispositions to heart disease and more. This groundbreaking work offers the chance to identify high-risk individuals early in life and lower risk through healthy behaviors and sometimes medicines. http://spklr.io/6040sHcC
Developing Polygenic Risk Scores Using Biobank Data | Mass General Brigham
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Care for people with substance use disorders is continuing to develop. Treating addiction like a health condition is a key change that Sarah Wakeman, MD, Mass General Brigham senior medical director for substance use disorder, is focused on. "Caring for addiction requires science-backed medical interventions coupled with personalized support that addresses a range of social drivers of health," writes Dr. Wakeman. "This sort of holistic, integrated approach is standard for people receiving treatment for cancer, HIV, and other chronic conditions. Now it must become the standard for people with substance use disorders." Read more of her thoughts on this subject in this STAT op-ed: http://spklr.io/6046ShE6.
To overcome the overdose crisis, addiction treatment must be integrated into the health care system
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Mass General Brigham experts made an exciting discovery in a new study that found that carrying one copy of the APOE3 Christchurch genetic variant can delay early-onset Alzheimer's disease by five years. This breakthrough could pave the way for new therapeutic targets. http://spklr.io/6049SfZb
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Stay updated on the latest in cancer treatment with our comprehensive clinical review of advances in immuno-oncology. Learn about molecularly-targeted therapies and immune system mobilization. Plus, join our optional session on managing immunotherapy toxicities, "Sink or Swim," for an in-depth look at common and uncommon toxicities. Register now: http://spklr.io/6042Shrj. #CancerTreatment #ImmunoOncology #MedicalEducation
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The Mass General Brigham Disability Employee Inclusion Alliance (DEIA) and Community Care Van team celebrated ADA Day last week at Boston’s City Hall Plaza with Mayor Michelle Wu. The day commemorates the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The DEIA team spoke with visitors, providing links and information about careers at Mass General Brigham and sharing details about the Massachusetts General Hospital Lurie Center ASPIRE program including vocational preparation resources for people with autism. They distributed injury cold packs and hand sanitizer, and, given the abundance of sunshine, visitors were also grateful to receive sunscreen and sunglasses. Our Community Care Van team attended to 17 people over the two hours, offering care for blood pressure and diabetes, along with social risk mitigation. “Many people who stopped by our table told us how happy they were with the care they received at Mass General Brigham and appreciated being able to visit the care van,” said Zary Amirhosseini, manager of the Mass General disability program at the Office of Belonging and Engagement, co-chair of Disability Employee Inclusion Alliance ERG, and member of Mayor Wu’s Disability Advisory Board. “It was a great day with many organizations engaging with the community to share programs and activities that provide improved access and services for citizens with disabilities,” said Lynne Brady Wagner, Mass General Brigham health equity director, specialty hospitals and ERAP services lines, enterprise disability clinical equity lead. “We were proud to represent Mass General Brigham and look forward to returning to this annual celebration honoring the rights of people with disabilities.”
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