Episode 110: Health for all FOLX

55 min • July, 16 2024

Addressing Healthcare Disparities in LGBTQIA+ Communities

In the latest episode of our podcast, we delve into the critical issues surrounding **healthcare access** for historically marginalized groups, with a focus on the **LGBTQIA+ community**. Despite advances in healthcare, significant barriers remain, particularly in obtaining gender-affirming care and navigating systems that often fail to support, and sometimes exclude, LGBTQIA+ individuals.

FOLX HEALTH: Pioneering Inclusive Telehealth Solutions

Join us as mission-driven nurses Teddy Tinnell MSN, RN (he/him) and Kate Steinle MSN, NP (she/hers) discuss their work with **FOLX HEALTH**, the largest LGBTQIA+-centric health and wellness platform. They share insights into how technology can be harnessed to dismantle barriers to care, ensuring that telehealth services are respectful, expertly delivered, scalable, and tailored to meet the specific needs and disparities faced by the LGBTQIA+ community.

Innovating Telehealth for Comprehensive and Inclusive Care

This episode explores the transformative strategies implemented by FOLX HEALTH to redesign and rebuild a telehealth delivery platform centered on the unique requirements of LGBTQIA+ individuals. By focusing on inclusivity and accessibility, FOLX HEALTH is not only enhancing the quality of care but also expanding access to exceptional healthcare services for all.

About See You Now Podcast

 See You Now is a podcast highlighting the innovative and human centered solutions that nurses are coming up with to solve for today’s most challenging, healthcare problems, created in collaboration with Johnson and Johnson and the American Nurses Association and hosted by nurse, economist and health tech specialist, Shawna Butler.

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• FOLX HEALTH
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• How FOLX is Reimagining Health Care for LGBTQIA+ Communities
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