Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. This can be done by maintaining a directory of community resources and making referrals during patient visits. Connect patients with local resources such as food banks, housing assistance, and mental health services.

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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

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

MAY 24, 2022

She would peer out at the gate of the clinic and start predicting what cases we would see. I was suprised he had managed for so long. So you came to the clinic after you went out to get yourself damaged? Sister N pointed to the screen with a blood pressure reading of 180/110. But I was glad no one needed referral.

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Referral Community Patients Specialization 52

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. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? Who do we have with us today? Jessie: Thank you.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

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 ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. How should we screen for cognitive impairment? So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. Nate 05:29 Ooh.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

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

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 so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We require, especially if they’re coming to us, we’re often making them come to our clinics if they’re going to get treatment, and we’re relying upon what they report to us, and are they going to tell us, “Oh, my steps are uneven and actually my railing’s all rickety and I’ve got boxes everywhere”?

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. 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.

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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. It improves symptom management.

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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? Get the hospice referral. So I’m just going to share on my screen. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management. Should we throw it out?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73