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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

WITH PATIENT ACUITY levels rising in hospitals, it makes sense that the patients being discharged to SNFs are likewise increasingly complex. By some estimates, one in four patients discharged to a SNF are readmitted. “We developed our own program to follow patients into SNFs,” Mr. .

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Attendee 11: I am hopeful that the model of care that we deliver is what our patients and their caregivers want, need and deserve. Attendee 16: Not being able to be involved as early as we all would like to be in the course of any patient’s trajectory of their illness. We need good nurse practitioners.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. And a light bulb just went off in my head, like, yes, this makes sense as a model for how we should care for more complex older patients.

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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Enhancements made to the LKA in response to feedback from physicians who identified areas for improvement, which are intended to keep the program relevant and effective.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. And he asked me questions like, “Why is this patient in bed? And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what? How long ago?