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Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Nurse Practitioner Referral

What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

For residents of Mesa and the surrounding East Valley communities, staying current with recommended preventive care can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that preventing illness is always better than treating it.

Preventative Care

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening

Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A 2024 analysis projected that by 2040 a shortage of 58,000 primary care clinicians (including nurse practitioners and physician assistants) will occur. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively. hours) allocated to preventive care.

Primary Care

Primary Care Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care

New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

primary care is posing a grave threat to the wellbeing of communities nationwide. Diminishing Workforce: Primary care clinician shortages worsen access to care The number of primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs), decreased from 105.7 per 100,000 in 2022.

Primary Care

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner

Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Our practitioners at Mesa Family Physicians get to know your health patterns over time, making it easier to spot subtle changes that might indicate developing issues.

Family Physician

Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care Families

Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

Pamela Wible MD

MAY 22, 2025

Dr. Wible personally screens each participant to ensure they’re in the best group for their unique needs. Ready to Join Our Physician Support Community? We can help. (90 We discuss the hidden and taboo reasons physicians die by suicide—and how to prevent it. (60 How do I know which group is right for me?

Consulting

Consulting Medical Community Mental Health

Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal.

Screening

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Lyndsay DeGroot, who’s a nurse researcher and T32 postdoc at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. In their communities? MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients

Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. Alex 02:00 Ann Arbor, where I went to undergrad. Yael, welcome to GeriPal. Yael 02:12 Thank you. I’m excited. Eric 02:13 So we ve got a lot to cover today. He died in 2024.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare

Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so as you think about the conditions that mean that you need care and support in a nursing home, it’s easy to see why many of us feel that palliative care, there are a lot of palliative care needs of nursing home residents just because of the nature of the conditions and reasons that got you there. Alex 02:09 Well, oops.

Nurse Practitioner

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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 ). It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. The theme is death. Alex: That is wonderful context.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Thanks, Alex.

Nurse Practitioner

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. It requires a fight. It’s been going on for many decades now. Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Families Family

What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Darrell: And so I’d set up in conjunction with our emergency room team and our hospitalist, a 24/7 screening process for, at the time, anybody who’s over 65. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Welcome back to GeriPal, Darrell. Darrell: Yes. Alex: From Cats?

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room

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Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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