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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

That has placed them in the rare company of becoming one of the Top Fifteen Under 15 businesses in our community. In 2007, Dr. Mancini joined the practice, followed by Dr. Meadows in 2012, and Dr. Gendernalik in 2015. The individuals who make up the practice impact the community in a variety of ways. Family Physicians of St.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? But we all know intuitively as clinicians and as people in the community, we see people have these events and then we see them have a much faster decline after that. In the community? And the government can do something about that?!?

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. Word of mouth spread rapidly. And the number of calls for falls dropped.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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laugher] Alex: And, so we put them together and I feel like there’s been a real coming together of the Geriatrics and Palliative care communities and sort of cross-fertilization between the two and efforts between the two. So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. Lynn: Great.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

I’ve known you since we did PSAP together, I think, back in 2007 ish. But there physically wasn’t the time, and there wasn’t that energy to be able to do everything for. Eric 09:58 And I just want to acknowledge, too, because I’m going to compliment you, too, Jane. You said, how was Kai doing? Alex 43:44 Yeah.

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