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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. Joseph, P.C.,

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

There was this big thing called the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, started in 2012. These are families who are in distress. We should be able to trust all the data that comes from our governing board. The whole focus was to reduce antipsychotic prescribing. These are patients who are in distress.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency. We make evidence that other groups use to make guidelines"), the passage of the Affordable Care Act made AHRQ a target again in 2012, when a House appropriations subcommittee voted to zero out its budget again.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said. “We called ourselves the family of love,” he said.

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Loss of DEI Hurts Everyone: Farah Stockman, Ali Thomas, Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Now to the federal government that is going way beyond what I think people truly understand. Well played.

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Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Physician's Weekly

After she got a nursing assistant certification, Goodwin hired her in 2012. Conteh said taking care of elders is embedded in the culture of African families. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.