Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. Encourage Healthy Eating Through Vouchers: Many clinics and systems have voucher programs in place to help supplement food for patients.

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Family Physician Community Families Family 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. Community engagement allows physicians to broadly and collectively educate patients on important health topics, empowering them to make informed decisions about their health.

Chronic Disease Management 52

Chronic Disease Management Community Chronic Disease Education 52

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. ,

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Community Chronic Disease Management Education 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Who do we have with us today?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

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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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. That’s a lot. Eric: Yeah.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

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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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I mean, we work at a different part of the health system a lot of times, although we have acute care therapists who do the same thing, but the gap in information flow is similar.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

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. Eric: Let’s say I have a panel of older adults that I’m seeing, or a palliative care outpatient clinic. We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

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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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. It is a screening? Okay, I don’t necessarily want to stay clinical, but I really love that spiritual work and what’s the closest profession. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY. Is it an assessment?

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. 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.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

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. Ruth: We wanted to control for those regional factors.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Get the hospice referral. So I’m just going to share on my screen. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

So recognizing that the public health emergency was going to be declared over and all those temporary waivers were going to expire, the DEA actually put out a request for information about should it go back to life as it was, or should they potentially have some new rules or new flexibilities? What state are they in? Eric: Yeah.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73