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Spotlight Magellan Health: Irvin Towson

Irvin Towson, VP of Talent Acquisition, oversees all the Enterprise, Magellan Healthcare and Magellan Federal recruiting. Based out of Virginia and with seven years spent at Magellan Health, Towson takes pride in his team’s track record of finding the best talent to join Magellan Health. Targeting more than 2,500 hires this year, he is focused…

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BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month | Magellan Healthcare

Mental health awareness for Black communities

For July Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Awareness Month, we are pleased to share our e-interview with Dr. Tonicia Freeman-Foster, Ed.D, CDP, CHES®, PMP, co-founder and principal consultant at Kusudi Consulting Group, and change specialist at Change Matrix, on mental health for Black people and African Americans Magellan: What are some…

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BIPOC Mental Health Month | Magellan Healthcare

July is Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Awareness Month

Over the past year COVID-19, community protests and increased social awareness have highlighted the impact of racism on the mental health of Black, Indigenous People, and People of Color (BIPOC). On April 8, 2021 Rochelle Wolensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that racism, “directly affects the well-being of millions of…

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Total Cost of Care | Magellan Health

2 Innovative Strategies to Effectively Manage Total Cost of Care

Total cost of care is challenging to define. In general, we consider total cost of care to be the total cost of what it takes to treat a population. Is it direct provider fees and hospital fees? What about labs? Medications? Caregiver burden? Time away from work? When I was in clinical practice—whether internal medicine…

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Overcoming grief and loss on a worldwide scale from COVID-19

Overcoming grief and loss due to COVID-19

  Explore tips and information to protect your mental health and deal with grief and loss of loved ones due to the worldwide impacts of COVID-19. When else in our lifetime can we say all people in all countries of the world have directly experienced grief and loss due to the same traumatic event? Now…

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Spotlight Magellan Health: Jennifer Foley

Jennifer Foley is leading a triage team of trained clinicians on the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to connect members with a variety of services to promote whole health, including new virtual wellness and counseling experience. Foley, the interim senior manager of the employee Center of Excellence triage team, uses her experience as a former lifestyle…

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Coping with Grief and Loss During COVID-19 | Magellan Health Insights

Coping with grief and loss during COVID-19

Think back to New Year’s Eve, Tuesday, December 31, 2019. Maybe you had big plans that night to ring in the new year, or maybe you were spending a quiet evening at home. In either case, you probably had expectations about 2020 and hopes that it would be happy, healthy and prosperous… Fast forward a…

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