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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

It’s clear traditional healthcare staffing solutions, such as in-house hiring, are no longer sufficient—read on for a deep dive on the limitations of permanent providers and why you should consider partnering with a locum tenens medical staffing network at your facility. What are the limitations of permanent healthcare staffing solutions?

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A Historic Day in Drug Development: FDA Approves Amylyx’s Drug to Treat ALS, Demonstrating FDA’s Application of Appropriate Flexibility in Rare Diseases

FDA Law Blog

This approval decision charts a path for the exercise of appropriate flexibility in regulatory decisions for other rare conditions where there is a serious and/or life-threatening unmet medical need, as is very often the case. We would like to acknowledge FDA for its efforts on this devastating condition, ALS.

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

Physician's Weekly

Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to carry a laptop and essential medical supplies — stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and pulse oximeter. Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

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Black History Month: 10 Champions of Children’s Health & Wellness

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

In 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff. Dr. Williams’ skills placed him and Provident Hospital at the fore-front of one of Chicago’s medical milestones. In 1967, Dr. Wright became the highest ranked African American woman at a nationally recognized medical institution.

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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. Alex: Okay.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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