Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortage s of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals. More specifically, healthcare facilities benefit from partnering with medical staff recruitment agencies to: Maintain regular appointment schedules and avoid cancellations.

Medical Staff 52

Medical Staff Medical Patients Healthcare 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. Eric: Social worker, mental health, I think we can actually learn from our team because we’re starting to embed with ILD clinics from this intervention, too, and from these algorithms, and from kind of what you’re doing.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. I think- Eric: I was going to say that. Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

He had this disseminated head and neck cancer and he had tried to get care before and due to his mental illness, he couldn’t follow up for cancer care. Naheed 17:53 Yeah, they want connection, they want relationship, they want, meaning. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. 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. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Another thing you could do is let’s really encourage discussion ahead of time between the appointed surrogate and the patient while the patient’s competent about patients preferences about their values. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. That’s one thing you could do. So address both of the problems.

Patient-Centered 108

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108