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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Support continuity of care for patients with chronic conditions who require regular follow-ups. These traveling healthcare professionals can be deployed at healthcare facilities struggling to maintain adequate staffing levels as physicians and other providers deal with burnout.

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

GeriPal

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. Is that right?

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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. The post RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Lyndsay: That’s a great question.

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

GeriPal

This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. I understand from states, our state, California, why we’re focused so much in on Medicaid and high utilization and cost and the way to try to influence that away. We’re in about year two right now.

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

GeriPal

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. We have to demonstrate we can do that. Otherwise, we will be kicked out of the program or the payment. So that’s very important one.