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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. We invite you to speak with a member of our team for more information. As employees change their healthcare usage behavior, both primary and specialty care claims decrease.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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.

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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. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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

GeriPal

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. We’re selling objectivity, information, independence and choice. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. Eric: Great, thank you both.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Get the hospice referral. Like, should we be doing advance care planning? What’s the evidence behind it? Eric: Yeah.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. Our national record for health care during the covid pandemic emergency was second to none. Our women’s clinics are not plagued by political ideology.