Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A Collaborative Approach Between Health Care Providers and Community Partners Food insecurity affects thousands of Minnesotans, often contributing to chronic health conditions and overall poor health outcomes.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Community Families Family 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service). Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities. Guided by the Andersen model of health care utilization, we identified predisposing, enabling, need, and structural community characteristics from public data sources. PURPOSE Primary care is the foundation of any health care system.

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Primary Care PCP PCP Primary Care Physician 130

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

Knowing these numbers, it’s imperative we take the opportunity for education and discussion. We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. What is Mental Health?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Family Medicine DO Education 52

CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

& We participate within our dental community in educational meetings and events, which builds our trust in the specialist. Nelson further explains, “I believe a key component to success for case acceptance is providing education to my staff and the offices I work with. link] Dated June 2019.

Patients 52

Patients Finance Education Utilities 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. If our family were to evacuate for a severe weather event and return to find a completely destroyed home or town, what would that look like financially?

Insurance 52

Insurance Finance Community Medical Advice 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Fetal Infant Mortality Reviews (FIMR) utilize abstracted health service records and family interviews to examine to identify root causes of infant mortality. Case review findings and recommendations are used for surveillance, quality improvement, policy development, and community education and mobilization.

Families 130

Families Family Utilities Education 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

Community 115

Community Transportation IT PCP 115

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. This episode was led by Rohan Khazanchi, and was hosted by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy and Utibe R. Calac, Victor A.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

IT 102

IT Families Family Clinic 102

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. These funds could be utilized for various purposes, including direct care, operational expenses, and facility maintenance or upgrades.

Insurance 130

Insurance Management Hospital Vaccination 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

I look forward to contributing to this transformative work and learning from the esteemed Physicians Foundation community.” He developed a streamlined workflow to screen for these critical DOHs and ensure that families received timely support. As the U.S.

Chronic Disease 40

Chronic Disease Screening Transportation Patient-Centered 40

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Our community-based participatory research (CBPR) team previously developed and piloted a culturally- and linguistically-tailored human papillomavirus (HPV) eHealth website ( [link] ) for Hmong adolescents and their parents that aimed to address low levels of HPV vaccine completion in this population.

Education 130

Education Clinic Community Primary Care 130

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. We provide critical education. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.”

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Eric 04:27 Yeah, I gotta ask about the community advisor. So I don’t want my Marin community to.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. You started off as a physician, right?

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? If not, why not?

Patient-Centered 117

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 117

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. Here’s another clinician saying, “I ignored a patient’s tears and gave a speech about cardiac physiology during a family meeting.” That’s scare tactics.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. How do you see the light?

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict. That’s a big question.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. When we protect our kids from the dangers of gun violence, the whole community stands to benefit. 10.1542/peds.2012-2481

Families 52

Families Family Mental Health Healthcare 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) combats COVID-19 misinformation in youth to reduce vaccine hesitancy through targeted outreach and education. Settings & Participants: The UMSOM partnered with 8 community-based organizations that represent vulnerable communities in MD, DE, VA, and WV.

Community 130

Community Utilities Vaccination Education 130

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Eric 29:20 Yeah.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But we all know intuitively as clinicians and as people in the community, we see people have these events and then we see them have a much faster decline after that. We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. In the community? What is your function?

Illness 73

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. I think you’re a loving family doing the best you can.” I was getting asked to give talks on how do you do this?

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73