Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

Dear Mr. Kennedy, First, thank you for bringing urgency and passion to the nation’s conversation on health and the chronic disease epidemic. Your desire to reimagine our approach to well-being is one that we share as a 30-year-old upstart association rooted in the fundamental idea that our health system is disintegrated.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. In 2022, only 24.4%

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. Connect patients with local resources such as food banks, housing assistance, and mental health services.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting millions of people worldwide and nearly 4.7 How can events linked to climate change affect children’s mental health? Exposure to EWEs profoundly affects children’s mental health due to both the trauma and to their anxiety and sadness about their future.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. So how we screen for mental health distress is really important. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Janet: So as Julie Childers often says in the same way that as palliative care clinicians we can take a first pass to address distress from depression without being necessarily mental health counseling specialists or a psychiatrist. Is that something we’re doing? Are we mainly thinking about in people with advanced cancers?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point. They touch every single system.

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