Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

The Federation is the national leadership and consulting organization for Permanente Medical Groups and their more than 25,000 physicians. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities. million members. million Kaiser Permanente members.

Appointment 52

Appointment Board-Certified Patient-Centered Integrated Care 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. Additionally, he consults with federal agencies on mental health system design and practices. Dr.  Kevin Simon discuss racial and gender health disparities in youth suicide.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Community Hospital Appointment 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. 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. Are they community dwelling?

Hospital 100

Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So it really helped form community between patients and helped build community with the palliative team that was involved. Now they’re getting psychedelic experiences, you know, and transformation in a consulting office. But also it brings community. It took a whole order of us to pull this off. And they did.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Now it’s 70%.

IT 113

IT Provider Patients Family 113

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. I think in the era when I trained in the 2008 timeframe, you know, it was very much just like somebody has pain, they need opioids, they have pain, they have more pain, they need lots more opioids. And we’ve been consulted multiple times.

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. And that these serious illness conversations ought to involve more palliative care consultations, I think.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101