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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency. As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients.

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Episode 286 – Rafael Medina Subspecialty Series – Elevated Creatinine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Rafa presents a nephrology clinical unknown to Drs. The goal of this series is to expand access to subspecialty, primary care and internal medicine-adjacent specialty education to learners around the world. He impacted the lives of so many and touched every corner of the CPSolvers community, and rippled far beyond.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Understand that collective action and a focus on community, rather than individualism, are most effective in combating racism and achieving health equity. One of the biggest barriers to health equity is the narrow focus on the individual and a failure to see health as a widespread community issue. 2010 Oct;71(8):1390-8.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

That means many older adults will be relying on other primary care physicians, who already can’t keep up with demand , and nurse practitioners, whose ranks are booming. Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

And then from that, through community activists, ACT UP, legislators who felt that there needed to be something done, doctors within CDCR who cared passionately about the HIV population and others, all came together and we were able to eventually get funding for this 17-bed inpatient hospice. There are clinics.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life. Kathleen 14:03 I mean, back to Cari’s, you know, what Cari was talking about, about financial barriers to palliative care services in the nursing home setting. So they were a lot of preoccupied with other tasks, but clinical gestalt.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Sure.