GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Yes, you need some protected time for leaders to provide training and structure and oversight and ongoing quality assurance, but the heaviest sort of cost lift sometimes is redesigning the physical space. And so I thought let’s try to figure out actually how many they are, where they are they in academic centers and community centers.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. They were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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IT Provider Patients Families 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. That’s right.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126