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Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA, appointed to chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation

Permanente Medicine

There she led more than 600 physicians providing care for 275,000 members in various facilities including a Kaiser Permanente hospital, a contracted hospital, and 14 medical office buildings in Woodland Hills and West Ventura. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008. million members. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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

GeriPal

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? What are the benefits of an ACE unit? If ACE units are so great, why are they not so common? . What does the future look like for ACE units and how does it differ (if at all) from Age Friendly Health Systems? But before we do, do you have a song request? I think Kellie, do you have it? Alex: Yeah.

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Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law Blog

Palmer — The 2008 Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act placed strict limits on online prescribing or the use of telemedicine encounters to prescribe controlled substances. a)(3), provided certain requirements, including requirements under state laws and conditions are met. By Karla L. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

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. Is it you, Ira? Eric: Great.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We begin with a refresher on psilocybinwhat it is, how it might work, what conditions it may help treat (including demoralization), and how its typically administered. It’s there.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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. Lynn: Okay.

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

GeriPal

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). See Sachs write up about setting up this clinic in JPSM. Who will prescribe the buprenorphine then? Alex 03:48 Yeah.