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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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

GeriPal

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain.

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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.

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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. Eric: 2010.

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

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Rehabbed to Death. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Joan.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? I mean, you know, we’re trying to both honor what, what the surrogate believes is the, the patient’s preference, which we do all the time with all kinds of other medical interventions and provide comfort in a humane way.

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