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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. And so for our example, when we launched our brand new ACE unit here at UAB in 2008, we did not have the funds to redesign the unit until three years later. Eric: What do you think, Kellie?

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Eric: All right. We mentioned her name before. Alex: Thank you.

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