Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Streamline Referrals: Utilize technology like the Hunger Vital Signs tool and the Minnesota Food Helpline to connect patients directly to mobile food units, emergency food programs or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment services. Park Nicollet Health Services combines nutrition education with SNAP referrals.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Check credentials through reliable websites like: American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Don’t hesitate to ask the clinic or hospital about the doctor’s credentials. Firsthand referrals often lead to trusted and patient-focused providers.

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Louisville Lectures

MAY 5, 2023

These will focus on delivering just-in-time algorithms, practical clinical knowledge and board tips on high-yield topics. Introducing the Cardinal Hospital Cardinal Hospital is a quaternary care referral center in a large city in the United States. Follow us on Instagram to follow us behind the scenes!

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. Jeffrey Bridge, a leading researcher at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

Founder and CEO of Cherry Hill Free Clinic (CHFC), Chief Medical Officer at Camden Coalition and Medical Director for Community Health at Virtua Health, as the recipient of the Dr. Buz Cooper Award for Addressing Drivers of Health. “The Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., president of The Physicians Foundation. Mirna Mohanraj, M.D. ,

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

DPC clinics provide members with: Personalized, preventive care Management of chronic conditions No co-pays or insurance billing Treatment of ailments and illnesses Same-day appointments and no wait times Unlimited appointment lengths 24/7 access to care Exams, labs, and testing Specialist referrals, as necessary And much more.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , Brad Sobolewski discusses advanced imaging in pediatric emergency care with Dr. Jennifer Marin ( jennifer.marin@chp.edu ) from UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh. So here to help us navigate these complex decisions is Dr. Jennifer Marin.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Without even forming an enquiry committee, he was suspended for a few days by the hospital administration in order to satisfy the public. Even though doctors are in no way responsible for the lack of facilities in hospitals like lack of beds, delay in getting blood test results, delay in getting a slot for scanning, etc.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). So you’re right.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(b)(2). . …. (2) 18 US.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(b)(2). . …. (2) 18 US.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 340B program, authorized under Section 340B of the Public Health Services Act and administered by HRSA, imposes a ceiling price on pharmaceutical manufacturer sales to “covered entities,” which are certain health clinics that receive federal funding and certain types of safety net hospitals to provide them drugs at lower prices.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective Describe the population of patients referred to a palliative care clinic and observe their healthcare utilization patterns. Study Design Retrospective chart review of patients seen in a palliative care clinic between June 2023 and August 2023. Referrals were predominantly from Pulmonology (60%).

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you’re going to be talking to the brand new intern on the service, or the chief executive of the hospital, are there some themes or similarities to how you’d approach that in the mentoring, sorry, not the mentoring, the coaching process? Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important. Beth: Yeah.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: 1) Participating clinics begin to provide mifepristone for early pregnancy loss (EPL) and/or abortion care. 2) Those unable to provide abortion care will: a) learn about evidence-based use of mifepristone for abortion care; b) implement supportive referrals for patients seeking abortion care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Eric 07:04 You actually created things like a curriculum for hospital medicine fellows in radiation oncology. Eric 00:59 Why did you choose this song?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. So no differences between the modalities.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? So there is this meaningful difference between appropriate reactions to illness and clinically significant symptoms of mental health problems. It’s high, it’s too high.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? They were at the VA, but not so much at our main hub hospital where I trained.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Eric: Oh, no.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Mazie, welcome to GeriPal. William: Sure.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The questionnaire gathers information about clinical work and practice patterns, and ABIM uses the information to help update exam blueprints, develop policies for initial certification and MOC, and ensure adequately diverse representation of the profession in research.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. ” Thoughts on that?

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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. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? I started our liver embedded liver clinic about seven and a half years ago.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. And I think that’s where this clinical trial which looked at seven versus 14 days was really practice-changing for many of us. It’s very rare and they may be a male patient. So you’re right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And what does that referral process look like? So that part we know and I.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Alex 04:07 A heart failure clinic playing in the background. Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. He’s in Boston. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Okay, I don’t necessarily want to stay clinical, but I really love that spiritual work and what’s the closest profession. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Why is this different from clinical communication skills? Then there was that New England Journal catalyst study that showed that the healthcare executives thought that 60% of the people in their hospitals who could benefit from palliative care weren’t getting it. Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. There are clinics. If they need an acute hospitalization, they would be hospitalized in a hospital that we contract with. If they need an acute hospitalization, they would be hospitalized in a hospital that we contract with.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody?

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. 2 , 4 I believe this is crucial and that all politicians should know about it.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? Chris 17:25 Yeah, I think a month is pretty uncommon, at least in our clinic.

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