PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. And I always say that I do not envy my emergency medicine colleagues, particularly those practicing in community settings. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers.

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Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work. About 90% were either currently or formerly undocumented, 2/3 spoke Spanish, 2/3 made <$50,000 annually, and 1/3 reported inadequate transportation.

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Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose 130

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So that’s I think diagnoses. But it was also later on in the disease. Diane: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115