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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Filling Critical Healthcare Staffing Gaps For many healthcare facilities, such as those located in rural areas of the country, the healthcare staffing shortage is already here —but for others, it’s a looming issue that must be planned for. Ensure specialty services remain available, even when permanent specialists are scarce.

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

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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

GeriPal

However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. Were these palliative care trained nurses and social workers? Lyndsay: That’s a great question. Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults. This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. And then, the system responds in turn. I call Greg.

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

GeriPal

They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. They can be a- Diane: Social worker.