Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 12, 2025

By integrating patient perspectives, healthcare systems can more effectively tailor and assess improvements in the 4Cs, leading to more responsive, efficient, and effective primary care delivery. Or if there’s a concern today, ‘Hey, let me introduce you,’ so a therapeutic relationship can start right off.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Concierge, Concierge Doctor, Concierge Medicine: Understanding Personalized Care As a doctor with years of experience in the healthcare industry, I've witnessed the ever-changing landscape of medicine. A rushed fifteen-minute appointment simply wasn’t enough for someone with complex needs. What is Concierge Medicine? "A

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Concierge Choice Physicians

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“My patients want to know they will always see me—the doctor they know and trust—when they make appointments,” says Dr. Greenough. “That’s why I felt strongly about opening this kind of practice, where I can make that commitment to patients.”

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East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

Regular health check-ups are a cornerstone of preventive healthcare, allowing us to catch potential health issues early and maintain a better quality of life. Regular health check-ups are proactive visits to your healthcare provider when you are not experiencing any specific symptoms or ailments. What are Regular Health Check-ups?

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Employers are increasingly finding that DPC offers a personalized doctor-patient relationship, comprehensive preventive care, and overall cost savings. As employees change their healthcare usage behavior, both primary and specialty care claims decrease. If you have a great relationship with your PCP, keep it!

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Plum Health DPC has a primary care solution designed just for you: Embrace the Benefits of Direct Primary Care Direct Primary Care is a membership-based healthcare model that emphasizes a direct relationship between patient and doctor. Ready to transform your healthcare experience?

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

APRIL 23, 2019

An office in Saint Joseph switched to that healthcare model a year and a half ago. That’s not the only benefit -- they say this new healthcare model allows for longer appointments and a more personal relationship with their physician. The patients WSBT 22 talked with say it's actually been more cost-effective.

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Many healthcare facilities in the U.S. are already struggling with staffing shortages , but others have turned to healthcare staffing agencies like Barton Associates to fill in the gaps. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Tired of feeling like just a number in a healthcare system? Direct primary care (DPC) is a membership-based healthcare model that offers patients unlimited access to a primary care physician for a fixed monthly fee. In essence, DPC offers patients a more accessible, affordable, and personalized healthcare experience.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to Healthcare IT News, however, less than 68% of Millennials have a primary care physician. Receive Quality Health Care Having a family care doctor can help ensure that you receive quality healthcare throughout your life. Provide Supportive Care Family care doctors can also provide emotional and mental support.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr. Saha’s research focuses broadly on the influence of race and racism in the doctor-patient relationship, its relation to disparities in the quality of health care, and its implications for diversity in the healthcare workforce. He has also served as a Council member and Secretary of SGIM.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 20, 2024

You need to be able to trust your doctor and build a relationship with them. If you call the office to make your first appointment and end up in a phone tree with 9 choices, followed by needing to be transferred to 3 different people, then perhaps that may predict communication problems in the future! Read My Latest News! →

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

The healthcare system in the US is not well-designed for the kind of care that is required to get to the bottom of these symptoms. I absolutely do not blame patients for seeking answers wherever they can, especially when the healthcare system has failed them.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 9, 2023

No appointments, and no insurance needed.” While Amazon’s new offering might be great for very focused, well-defined, previously diagnosed, or simple acute issues that don’t require any in-person care or followup, it is not a solution for the primary care needs that 90%+ of your healthcare tends to be. Or does it!?

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

Questions for your appointment Write down questions for your doctor and check them off during your appointment. Ask the doctor what symptoms should trigger a follow-up appointment. Interested in connecting with a board-certified healthcare provider in minutes through Doctor On Demand? Sign up today.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

There will be clinician that uses AI to help out their practice, and there will be one that won’t basically, and that is the one that that will really be struggling to search through the database, looking for stuff that perhaps the AI can offload and allow them to actually truly practice meaningful relationship-based medicine.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Alex 00:24 Great.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And nurses and other healthcare practitioners knew nothing about it. Over-the-counter hearing aids: What will it mean for older Americans?

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Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

Membership is simply an option for those patients who want the assurance they will always see their chosen physician for appointments. He creates a relationship with patients that allows their participation in determining treatment options. No patients are dismissed, and referral networks remain intact.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong. However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Think of it as the front line of healthcare—the first place you visit when you have a medical concern, whether it’s a persistent cough or a more complex issue like heart disease. They can also refer you to specialists when necessary and coordinate your overall care, ensuring you don’t have to navigate the healthcare system alone.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You don't want to start this new relationship off on the wrong foot by making an appointment and later finding out that they're not in-network with your insurance company. Find Out if They Accept Your Insurance This is one of the most important things to consider before making your decision.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Know Your Healthcare Needs Assessing Your Current Health Situation Before you start searching for a PCP, take a moment to reflect on your health. Do you have specific healthcare needs that require specialized attention? Determining Your Preferences Everyone has different preferences when it comes to healthcare.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Have you thought about that?

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Five minute appointments. Charlotta: But I would say to that, I mean our healthcare system is currently has a lot of biases. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. I said, you know, I don’t usually start my appointments in laughter. And I think that’s why by the end of the appointment, we were able to go to equally deep places that were pretty dark and pretty heavy together.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. So, if they have an alcohol use disorder and that’s really impairing their ability to make it to chemotherapy appointments or it’s causing them to have even more mucositis related pain, you need to know about that. Katie: Sure.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. Even if you haven’t completed a healthcare proxy, durable training for healthcare, most states say here’s a list of people who can make that decision in order. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. There’s a reason why the VA is ahead of us in terms of integrating behavioral healthcare. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: What’s a PRO? Elissa: Totally.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. You can tell, are they showing up to oncology appointments, to palliative appointments, are there urine tests as expected? Julia 11:02 Yeah.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. You will love how easy it is to stay in contact with your healthcare provider.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care.

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