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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Introduction The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) recognizes the utility and potential for Measurement Based Care (MBC) as a core feature of high-quality integrated healthcare. Collect, share, act: A transtheoretical clinical model for doing measurement-based care in mental health treatment. Barber, J.

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Coming Soon: Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center

Logansport Memorial Hospital

Logansport Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the opening of a new pain management center on April 1, 2024. Chronic pain can affect all areas of our lives, including our relationships, sleep, and mental health, and it may even lead to a lower quality of life.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. We weren’t providing physical therapy or providing mental… I mean, we were doing some mental health care, but it was really using what we had available in that space.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Did your intervention Lexy actually have any effect on utilization, which again, somewhat argue is the reason that services palliative care get funded? And we don’t know very much about how all of those overlap.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. So if you are established program, the starting point is July 30th, 2024. This is Eric Widera. You get double whammy.