GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

That put me in the emergency room. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. For instance, Friday night, Saturday night parties are of community wide. And yet, stigma about cannabis really, really held them back.

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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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then I got online as a patient advocate and started connecting with the brain tumor community on social media and Facebook and Twitter, and actually started working in the healthcare space, in palliative care advocacy, for a palliative care advocacy organization in California, which is where I’m based, about eight years ago.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? Lauren: Yeah, that was my question.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So, for the two studies, I’ll mention, we use data from the precipitating events project at Yale, which is Tom Gill’s amazing cohort, where they followed a cohort of initially non-disabled community dwell and older adults with monthly measures of function. Julien: Lauren, I totally agree with you.

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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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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Scientific Evidence of Marijuana’s Pharmacological Effects, If Known HHS found that marijuana abuse can lead to negative consequences that include addiction and the need for medical attention through poison center calls or emergency room visits. Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And actually, just my experience of that actually, I think made me want to be more, to understand more about what was going on in the community and be more part of how we could support older adults in the community, particularly around asian hate, which then I ended up moving to unlock in 2022. Specifically about anti agent hate.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

Then our advocates have the opportunity to practice those skills at a state and federal level in the areas of access to affordable care, community health and prevention, and health justice and equity. We are 27,000+ physicians and medical students in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included. Diane: Yeah.

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Physicians News Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Some hospitals are expanding emergency room capacity and increasing staffing to accommodate the rising number of flu cases. Public health officials continue to monitor the situation closely, providing updates and guidance to both the healthcare community and the public.

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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. And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Including, I think, a 24/7 palliative care intervention in the emergency room, an inpatient comfort care intervention for COVID-positive patients … doing a tremendous amount. So we anticipated, based on what was happening in Seattle, a pretty large influx of elders that were going to come through the emergency room.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction. Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box of raisins in the seconds the cupboard was left unlocked. That future may already be taking shape.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Diminished reimbursements from the state-federal health insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities would further erode hospitals’ ability to stay open and maintain services for their communities — populations with more severe health needs than their urban counterparts. Edward Markey (D-Mass.),

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Doctors for America

APRIL 22, 2025

Since Columbine, there have been over 420 school shootings in the United States, resulting in countless deaths and lifelong trauma for students, educators, families, and communities. Doctors see the human toll of gun violence every single day—in emergency rooms, in trauma centers, and in the quiet moments of grief that follow.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

My guess is out in the community there’s more pressure to initiate dialysis for various reasons. But more and more patients end up in emergency rooms and ICUs and they’re unrepresented. Alex 36:04 Well, I would just, just editorialize briefly and say at UCSF that’s the way it is. It may not be.

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