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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. I guess that’s an event.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. Eric: How do you think about it, Naomi?

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Utilizing Community Outreach Workers to address COVID-19 Misinformation [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

The University provided guidance on how to recruit youth ambassadors, train community members and staff to accomplish the goals of the project, to decrease the vaccine hesitancy rate and increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among youth through education/outreach from respected individuals and organizations from local communities.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And then access to those.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. .” Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. Margot: Yes.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. Fed up with assembly-line medicine Dr. Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma.

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