The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

primary care is posing a grave threat to the wellbeing of communities nationwide. State Highlights: Montana provides 65% of its medical training in community-based settings, far surpassing the national average of 16%. In 2022, only 24.4% of new physicians entered primary care—or 19.8% Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund.

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Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families. Application of teachings — It is advised to amplify the work that is already being done in communities and identify what areas at the systems level need to change as well as the key stakeholders.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Provider Clinical Practice Clinic 52