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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

Bush Administration and reached an agreement to redirect a multi-million dollar fund for Massachusetts hospitals to provide subsidized health insurance for lower income workers. in 2006 to 1.9% Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Kenny Lin, MD Director, Robert L.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. These are families who are in distress. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review. Annals of IM. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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

GeriPal

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. To learn more about what we talked about, check out the following links: Eldercare Locator, a public service of the U.S. Eric: And Susan?

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Who are our guests?

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

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good. Why do I care?