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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Key proposals included increasing hospital Medicaid reimbursement rates , preventing mid-year changes to prescription drug formularies and establishing a School Health Advisory Committee. 2413 ( Senator Mann ) creates a new assessment on hospitals to increase Medical Assistance reimbursement rates. Read a summary of S.F.

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

PEMBlog

J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631. Collaborative Care in the Identification and Management of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults. Pediatrics 2021; 147. Sedel F, Baumann N, Turpin JC, et al. Psychiatric manifestations revealing inborn errors of metabolism in adolescents and adults. Chun TH, Sargent J, Hodas GR. Psychiatric emergencies.

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

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

2007 Oct;14(5):265-8. West J Emerg Med. 2012 Feb;13(1):35-40. PMC3298214. Melamed E, Oron Y, Ben-Avraham R, Blumenfeld A, Lin G. The combative multitrauma patient: a protocol for prehospital management. Eur J Emerg Med. PMID: 17823561.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. Was the clinician working frontline in those community hospitals? hospice use).

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. And like you, Jerry, have never regretted that a day in my life and have dedicated my career as a clinician educator, now a fellowship program director, but I’ve also been a clerkship director in the past. Eric: And can I ask, why did you decide to go into geriatrics?

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Susan: Beautiful. Eric: Yeah.

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