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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

WITH PATIENT ACUITY levels rising in hospitals, it makes sense that the patients being discharged to SNFs are likewise increasingly complex. ” Matt Nieukirk OSF HealthCare Because of that partnership, the health system now has much more comprehensive coverage for the patients discharged to SNFs.

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Study finds primary care physicians increasingly treat mental health concerns

Medical Xpress

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, compared national data on primary care visits from 2006 and 2007 to data from 2016 and 2018, finding that the proportion of visits addressing mental health concerns rose by almost 50 percent.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

FDA recognizes that the FD&C Act exempts licensed healthcare practitioners from certain device regulations if they manufacture devices solely for use in the course of their professional practice. The PR goes on to state that the FD&C Act definition of a device does not turn on where or by whom a test system is “manufactured.”

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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. Eric: And that’s what you found, that the healthcare system is perfectly designed to just deprescribe automatically after short periods of use?

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

GeriPal

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there.

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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

GeriPal

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. There was some at the time, which was 2006 so also, it’s been a while since the guidance has been updated and other guidance for other viral infections like hepatitis B and C.