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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

“Twenty years ago, we never had nurse practitioners coming into SNFs, and we were lucky to get a physician in once or twice a month,” says Mr. Nieukirk, who joined OSF HealthCare after many years as a nursing home administrator. ” Phyllis Maguire has been Executive Editor of Today’s Hospitalist since 2006.

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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. We have a fantastic association partner and her and I are really, we’re talking to a lot- Eric: Seriously, I am a, let’s say nurse practitioner in a community clinic.

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

GeriPal

So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. So they were still have one or two more years with them. And the MIND at Home at Hopkins.