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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

For residents of Mesa and the surrounding East Valley communities, staying current with recommended preventive care can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. Our female practitioners understand the unique health needs of women in our community.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

And ACE units in general take a typical multidisciplinary hospital unit that has all the different team members, so doctors, nurses, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, chaplains, patient care technicians, others I’m leaving out. Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? What are the benefits of an ACE unit? Alex: Yeah.

Hospital 101
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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

We debate the merits of use of CGM in the nursing home and other late life settings (Eric and I argue against CGM and lose). So I am not a diabetes expert by any means, but Nadine and I actually met a few months ago when there were a group of nurses who came together, PhDs and DNP prepared nurses. Listen in to learn more!

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Our practitioners at Mesa Family Physicians get to know your health patterns over time, making it easier to spot subtle changes that might indicate developing issues.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Lyndsay DeGroot, who’s a nurse researcher and T32 postdoc at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. In their communities? MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness.

Medical 100
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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shadow the head nurse practitioner at the Augusta clinic. During this day I observed one medication abortion administration and two aspiration abortion procedures, the second of which was complicated by hemorrhage (which was swiftly controlled).