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How hospitals can cut admission delays by 30%

Today's Hospitalist

LIKE MOST HOSPITALS , Veterans Affairs facilities across the country track admission delays, the amount of time it takes to move a patient who’s being admitted out of the ED and into an inpatient bed. . As for standardizing bed assignment procedures, the solution was to give that staff extensive education. reduction.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

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In: Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5th, Fleisher GR, Ludwig S, Henretig FM (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2006. Chun TH, Sargent J, Hodas GR. Psychiatric emergencies. Cunqueiro A, Durango A, Fein DM, et al. Pediatr Radiol 2019; 49:240.

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Gastroenterology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Additionally, 1,071 physicians have been board certified in transplant hepatology since 2006 with 904 maintaining today. in hospital- or system-owned practice and 23% in academic faculty practice. More than half—10,072 (58%)—are simultaneously maintaining certification in internal medicine.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Eric: And Susan?

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Older adults may not have received AIDS education. So the big sort of deciding point often in the hospital at least comes down to when someone is able to take oral medications or anything by mouth.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. And I was terrified.