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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

2007 ( Representative Nadeau ) established a spoken language health care interpreter work group. This will trigger a special election in District 6. The post MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills appeared first on MAFP. The bill was laid over for possible inclusion in a future omnibus bill.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. And man, I still remember those sessions, some of the most powerful learning experiences of my career as a palliative care doctor. Susan: Beautiful. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursing homes. Should we give up on primary palliative care? Whats next for primary palliative care interventions in the ED?