Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

Logansport Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the opening of a new pain management center on April 1, 2024. Together with the Pain Management Group (PMG), Logansport Memorial is dedicated to providing high-quality care right here in our community. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center is now accepting new patients.

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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.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Mental health and SUD bias impact the quality of ED care that patients with these conditions receive for physical health concerns, according to research. What the Patients Said According to the study, three key themes emerged: Negative encounters dominated. Isbell, PhD , of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues.

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For hospitals, this means investing in cutting-edge medical interventions and partnerships that help them transition to the modern best-practice of dedicated ICU management. Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

This isn’t just about saving the planet—it’s also about saving money, protecting patients, and strengthening our healthcare systems from the inside out. Dilating and anesthetic eye drops are routinely offered to patients in most ophthalmology clinics. Now, more than ever, they must also become champions of planetary health.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Objectives Define likelihood ratios and their utility in diagnostic reasoning Identify how likelihood ratios alter the probability of a diagnosis Apply likelihood ratios in clinical reasoning What are likelihood ratios and how do they work? Thus, we empirically treat patients with ascitic fluid that has > 250 neutrophils/mm 3.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. And I think that we’re at this kind of crossroads right now in dysphagia, and dysphagia management where our patients are suffering. We revisit it, and make things better for our patients.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” and remote or wearable patient monitoring devices (e.g.,

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. Our guests remind us to ask our patients about their housing status using non-judgmental and non-stigmatizing language. Know your community resources.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. 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. Yannis Valtis, Ebi Okah, and Carine Davila, about research in their respective fields. Calac, Victor A.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

Utilization and variation of QMT was examined from quarter 1 (Q1) 2021 to Q2 2023. Utilization and variation of QMT was examined from quarter 1 (Q1) 2021 to Q2 2023. The median age of 43,558 patients admitted at 61 hospitals was 74 years; 38 percent belonged to racial and ethnic minorities and 51 percent were women.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? In their communities? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Big randomized control study that came out.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Running from February 4 to May 15, this session promises to bring substantial changes to medical consent laws, Medicaid coverage, rural hospital funding, taxation on essential goods, and the transparency of healthcare costs. HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.

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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. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Caveat as well that RCTs should not be placed on pedestal as the only answer- often patients enrolled in RCTs do not represent real world patients – observational studies do. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Upon entering the room, you find the patients nurse at the bedside already in mid-conversation with the patients parent. In pediatric patients, this condition should be considered when blood pressure exceeds the 95th percentile for age, height, and sex by more than 30 mm Hg, or reaches levels above 180/120 mm Hg in older adolescents.

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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. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. Nathan: I do.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So I’m going to last longer in my position and I’m going to seek opportunities to grow and to help families and patients more and more. We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars. It creates that community where you’re like, “Oh, I’m not alone.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. I just think that some of the hardest things we face are coping with and making decisions for patients when they can’t decide for themselves. These studies are important.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Connie 06:18 So, I’ve been a clinician working in the nursing home since back in the 80s, and I saw a lot of patients that really needed palliative care.

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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. 2022, March 18).

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Fam Med Community Health. BMC Fam Pract. 2020;21(1):151. 2021;9(4):e001228.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer, welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

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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. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia.

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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.” Care Ecosystem.

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