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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: 2019-2020 Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services database (demographic, enrollment, and claims data). The geographic accessibility of PCPs for Medicaid patients at the time of enrollment was constructed at the census tract level using the 2-Stage Floating Catchment method.

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Welcome Dr. Ruffo

OCFM

October 23, 2020 / Jack Forbush, DO / News Jack Forbush, DO Helpful video out together by one. Notice of Privacy Policy

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Congratulations Dr. White.well deserved

OCFM

White.well deserved December 07, 2020 / Jack Forbush, DO Cherryville’s White is N.C.’s Notice of Privacy Policy

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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. The conversation touched on the need to more consistently reference “older adult(s)” instead of “elderly” and the relatively low percentage of geriatric content in internal medicine assessments.

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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. But how to talk to patients about the risk and benefits when starting. Welcome, Ariel.