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Misconceptions of Employer Sponsored Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Plum Health

Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits. As employees change their healthcare usage behavior, both primary and specialty care claims decrease. Get started by contacting us today.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. It improves symptom management.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program.

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