Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management. The ER is open 24/7 and has the equipment and staff to handle life-threatening conditions at any time. This requires emergency treatment.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And often patients are told there’s no cardiovascular problem, you don’t have heart failure, you’re older, or maybe it’s from another chronic condition or. People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. Was it sodium hf?

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: And Susan?

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

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.” Eric: Okay.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. It took us a year to get that through.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115