Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas.

Utilities 130

Utilities Primary Care Finance Patients 130

CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

Patients depend on our clinical knowledge as well as our recommendations and relationships with our specialist partners.</span></span></p> By the utilization of patient financing strategies, we can help to facilitate a means of affordability for the everyday patient.</span></span></p>

Patients 52

Patients Finance Education Utilities 52

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And, you know, some, some relationship with hospice, some might not do many referrals at all to hospice. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Almost all of them have hospice contracts.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Sometimes people call them health shocks, but we kind of all, like, clinically, intuitively know what these things are. Has really changed.

Illness 73

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73