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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. Our team of providers utilizes an interdisciplinary model of care, including physical therapy, neurology, primary care, medical imaging, and other areas to address patient well-being from multiple perspectives.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. Is that right?

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

GeriPal

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Eric: Speaking of a niche humor, I love this one. Alex: Let me share one here.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. 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. Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you.