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

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

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

It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. We provide critical education. Sarguni: I hear what you’re saying and I struggle.

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

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

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 14:03 I mean, back to Cari’s, you know, what Cari was talking about, about financial barriers to palliative care services in the nursing home setting. Eric 14:32 So there’s financial disincentives for interdisciplinary palliative care teams. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

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. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. At what point were you engaged with the patients either as a geriatrician, primary care, or a palliative care or hospice?

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

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 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 was getting asked to give talks on how do you do this? I want to be mindful of time. Each of you lightning question.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73