The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Dr. Margot Kushel is a Professor of Medicine and Division Chief at the Division of Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Push back against dehumanizing language.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Emergency Room Medical 52

Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Some family doctors choose to do a fellowship and are trained more specifically to do more advanced surgical procedures, deliver babies (including C-sections), work on public policy and advocacy, work in an emergency room, and the list goes on. Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics. You can tell me anything!

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Board-Certified GP DO 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I got a background in [inaudible 00:15:46], a background in public health, background in social work. And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living.

Community 97

Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I started our liver embedded liver clinic about seven and a half years ago.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? How can public health and policy experts address these needs, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic which turned our social lives upside down?

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital. We have these quality metrics like hospitalization days before death, used hospice, enrolled in hospice, and days before death. And so, how can this be?

IT 95

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

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. Eric: Yeah.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89