Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 15, 2025

Make An Impact on Your Community Healthcare is more than a job — it’s a calling. For some, that involves providing high-quality care to individual patients. Health savings account (HSA): This special savings account lets you pay for eligible medical expenses with pre-tax dollars.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Led by Annie Kennedy, Everylife’s VP of Government Affairs and Policy, we worked the halls of Congress to educate lawmakers on the pressing needs of the rare disease community. It’s astounding that it took this long for any administration — Republican or Democrat — to recognize the thirty million strong rare disease community in our country.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MAY 11, 2022

Purchase from well-recognized distributors, grocers, and pharmacies rather than individually sold or auction sites. If not, your pediatrician’s office can work with you to access all community resources. Check smaller stores and drug stores, which may not be out of supply when the bigger stores are. Check social media groups.

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Reflections of a Grady Doctor

JUNE 30, 2022

One distinctly different and special from the one you had with him as a child—and unique to you and no one else? And what if all of this was amplified exponentially by the love, adoration, and influence he poured not only into his own grandchildren but generations of nieces, nephews, cousins, play cousins, and community kids as well?

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In Kaiser Permanente here, we exist to provide high-quality, affordable health care for our patients in the communities we serve. So people doing self-service online, helping themselves so that we can re-devote our resources to actually other things and reduce that cost structure for our patients and our communities.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Moreover, center patients not only in discussions about individual decision-making but in constructing and drawing meaning from the research. J Epidemiol Community Health. Prioritizing Equity in a Time of Scarcity: The COVID-19 Pandemic. J Gen Intern Med. 2020;35(9):2760-2762. doi:10.1007/s11606-020-05976-y Krieger N. N Engl J Med.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

So, Dr. McPherson, as far as I can tell, she’s really the only person in our professional community who in any sort of serious public way said, folks we need to do something about this. And then again, individualizing it to the patient. Eric: Drew, both of our fourth step is individualizing it. Tell me your thoughts.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

For 6 years, I served as a patient liaison within FDA in what was then called the Office of Special Health Issues. Over the years, this function expanded to cancer (renamed the Office of AIDS and Special Health Issues) and, ultimately, all serious and life-threatening diseases (dropping the AIDS nomenclature). 28, 2020).

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. It’s going to be at home what community resources are out there. In addition to the questions asked above, we also cover the following topics with our guests: What is dementia screening?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. 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. Know your community resources.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. Describe how the media shapes public sentiment toward substance use and addiction treatment.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This specialized workforce has not yet been classified in health administrative data, limiting our understanding of their individual and medical practice characteristics. female sex, larger community size, graduating from a Canadian medical school, community-level residential instability), primary care practice model (i.e.,

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. ABIM and the Infectious Disease Board gratefully acknowledge the service of Wendy Armstrong, MD , and Jesse Milan, Jr.,

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. I would like to request the Friendship Train by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their communities? I’d be operating at the top of what I’m capable of doing, to provide really tailored and individualized care for my patients and their care partners, where they are. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.” With their regular providers?

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. So classically with preparation, in individual settings or even in group settings, you have one or two people supporting people through psychoeducation, what to expect, life review. And they did.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. laugher] Alex: And, so we put them together and I feel like there’s been a real coming together of the Geriatrics and Palliative care communities and sort of cross-fertilization between the two and efforts between the two.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Comprehensive Primary Care for Michigan Communities What sets this clinic apart is its comprehensive approach to primary care. Whether you need a routine physical, vaccination, or management of a chronic illness, this clinic has you covered with a focus on holistic and individualized care. What services does the clinic offer?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Eric: Great. Now it’s 70%.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.” It’s all individual. Juliet: Just I think this notion of communities coming more into our field.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. I am there with individuals who are dying.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. 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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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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

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care. Where are my colleagues?”

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Sammy,” and the generosity of other people doing this work, I don’t know if it’s because we all work in palliative care and we’re good people to begin with, or it’s something very special about someone like Julie, and Matt’s given me feedback about things. And that’s not particularly sexy.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Go ahead, Alex.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. So writing a eulogy or seeing that individual, we had an open casket, which was both very hard, but also, I would say, somewhat cathartic to actually do these rituals and participate in these rituals. Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. 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.

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