Books, Community, Families and Government

Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 10, 2025

Modern Healthcare honors physicians and clinicians in executive roles for their exceptional achievements in driving innovation, improving outcomes, serving their communities, and demonstrating exemplary leadership both within and beyond their organizations. To learn more about Permanente Medicine, visit permanente.org.

Clinic

Clinic Patient-Centered Healthcare Medical

Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

Community

Community IT Mental Health Medical

Episode 200: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 11 – Racism, Redlining, and the Path Towards Reconciliation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In contrast, de jure segregation refers to the involvement of federal, state, and local governments in creating, structuring, designing, reinforcing, and perpetuating segregation. Currently, low-income housing tax credit is a federal program distributed to housing developers who build housing for low-income families.

Government

Government Community Education Individual

Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Johnson, actually.

Individual

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition

Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . I have written about it in the book.

Community

Community IT Relationship Healthcare

The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

IT

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Like, these are challenging things.

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Community Illness

Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. JAMA Health Forum. Joseph: Yes, This is the first time.

IT

IT Provider Patients Family

Right Relationships in the Real World

Doctor Rachel

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I also mention a number of books throughout, which give more detailed accounts of the points discussed.) AND, marriage invites you to go ahead and just project all of your unmet needs from your family of origin right onto your spouse—so that you can work through them. Creating community. Marriage and relationship, certainly.

Relationship

Relationship Community IT Family

Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary So you want to write a book. So you want to write a book! So…you want to write a book?!? You can hear our prior podcast on Louise’s book here ). We talk with them about writing for the lay public, including: Why write a book for the lay public? How did they start writing a book?

IT

IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation

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

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Family Families

KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. Kennedy then appointed new members, including vaccine skeptics, prompting alarm from the broader medical community. Kennedy Jr.

Vaccination

Vaccination Community Appointment Patient-Centered

‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. “But I am grateful that I am part of a community that will not bow down.” “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said.

Government

Government Community Family Families

Loss of DEI Hurts Everyone: Farah Stockman, Ali Thomas, Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. I had the pleasure of listening to this book with Farah reading it. It is a terrific book.

IT

IT Community Management Government

Primary Care Digest

Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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Episode 200: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 11 – Racism, Redlining, and the Path Towards Reconciliation

Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

Right Relationships in the Real World

Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

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

KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t

‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Loss of DEI Hurts Everyone: Farah Stockman, Ali Thomas, Ken Covinsky

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