Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe a decade-long implementation process for genomic and precision medicine embedded in a primary care community hospital network. Setting: Community-based integrated health system in northern Illinois and across metropolitan Chicagoland.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. Population Studied: Purposive sample of care team members (eg, physicians, social workers, diabetes educators, dietitians, community health workers).

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The rise in social needs screening in primary care settings has led to questions about program design and implementation strategies. Multisector coordination is critical for effective screening and referral initiatives. Setting or Dataset: A tracking document used to manage the social needs screening and referral system.

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Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Many of us are taught in medical school and residency the importance of patient communication on improving patient satisfaction scores, quality metrics, and professional fulfillment. However, a less examined aspect is patient and community engagement outside traditional healthcare settings.

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Chronic Disease Management Community Chronic Disease Education 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 20, 2025

Increase better outcomes and manage resources through health care innovations that reduce the need for emergency medicine and in-hospital surgery recovery, allowing better treatment for conditions faced by older adults and supporting more more advanced care-at-home delivery.

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Chronic Condition Primary Care Patients Management 52

BMJ

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

People who are overweight or obese represent a high-risk population in prediabetes management. Did doctors deliver advice on lifestyle change to the overweight and obese population adequately in prediabetes management? People could get knowledge of prediabetes and lifestyle management from various sources to develop self-awareness.

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Diabetes Management Healthcare Patient-Centered 40

Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

Exercise is fantastic for your general well-being, but did you know it can also help lower high cholesterol screening levels? Read on to learn how much and what kinds of exercise can help control cholesterol screening levels. Check if your local YMCA or community center has affordable access to pools.

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Screening Family Medicine DO Management 52

East Cary Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With millions of individuals affected by this metabolic disorder, it’s crucial to understand its causes, symptoms, management, and prevention strategies. Managing Diabetes: While diabetes is a serious condition, effective management can help individuals lead healthy, fulfilling lives.

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Diabetes Management Family Physician Individual 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Adults with T2D often face unmet social needs, such as food insecurity, compounding the challenges associated with their engagement in disease management interventions. Population Studied: Adults (≥18 years) who receive care at an affiliated clinic, screen positive for food insecurity, have a T2D diagnosis, and an A1c level > 7.5%.

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Diabetes Clinic Transportation Internal Medicine 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs.

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Routine Screenings Screening Complication Diagnose 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers, Systems, and Patient‑Experience scores —and word of mouth—suffer when bias is perceived, jeopardizing both reimbursement and community trust. Screen pain objectively. Safety net at capacity. Action Steps Key recommendations from the study team included: Build anti‑stigma reflexes.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Physicals Patient-Centered Patients 52

Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 2, 2025

Your digestive system doesn’t just process food; it also influences cholesterol screening levels in your bloodstream. By regularly incorporating prebiotic foods or supplements into your diet, you effectively help feed and cultivate communities of ideal commensal flora adept at beneficial cholesterol conversions.

Family Medicine 52

Family Medicine DO Screening Specialization 52

The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

Founder and CEO of Cherry Hill Free Clinic (CHFC), Chief Medical Officer at Camden Coalition and Medical Director for Community Health at Virtua Health, as the recipient of the Dr. Buz Cooper Award for Addressing Drivers of Health. His dedication to this cause should serve as an inspiration to the entire medical community.”

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Community Chronic Disease Management Education 40

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%. North Dakota has the highest percentage of new physicians entering primary care, at 46.6%, double the national average.

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Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

East Cary Family Physicians

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the importance of vision screenings, especially during Glaucoma Awareness Month, and how they play a crucial role in preserving your eyesight. Regular vision screenings are essential to catch glaucoma early, allowing for timely intervention and the preservation of vision.

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Primary Care Physician Family Physician Screening Primary Care 40

Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

Kaiser Permanente’s physician-led, integrated care model focuses on prevention, screening, treatment, and research to drive continuous improvement in care quality standards that have gained national recognition. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

MAY 24, 2022

She was deeply involved in community outreach projects and truly cared for the community she was a part of. I was suprised he had managed for so long. Sister N pointed to the screen with a blood pressure reading of 180/110. Sister N knew her people, her community and herself. She was appropriately firm yet so soft.

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Referral Community Patients Specialization 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

And I quickly found myself in a role of access lead for Orange County and where I managed over 300 doctors. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. So I became the group pack coordinator and then the physician in charge of my medical office and Mission Viejo.

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Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? If I was going to ask one question about this just as a screen, is there a way to ask this question that is not both stigmatizing, but people also understand and it gets around some of these issues. In terms of how you can, how you can manage these issues.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. Amy, welcome to GeriPal.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

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 welcoming, family-friendly environment at Mesa Family Physicians is designed to make these experiences positive for our youngest community members.

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Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care Families 100

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Evidence-based screening tests based on current medical guidelines, your age, and risk factors.

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Preventative Care Preventive Care Appointment Screening 100

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Users can navigate pre-deployment preparation, on-the-ground assistance, post-deployment resources, and more—at the touch of a button from the home screen. Key Takeaways Recommendations developed during a consensus conference can help healthcare facilities and communities be ready to respond if a mass shooting occurs nearby.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Behavioral Health Services Provider Healthcare 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. The approach was simple: consistently alert patients that it’s time to get screened and make getting screened as easy as possible.

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Screening Preventive Care Preventative Care Patient-Centered 52

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

Think vaccinations, annual checkups, screenings for blood pressure or cholesterol, and lifestyle counseling. They’re trained to provide both general care and preventive health services , helping you manage everyday health while staying alert to changes that could signal early disease. What Is Preventive Care?

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Illness Preventative Care Preventive Care Insurance 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So we took this idea of, and it’s really an invitation from the national consensus project that every member of the team should be screening in all domains. So that means that we all screen for every domain in our interactions. And a screening is one to two simple sentences to identify need in that or distress in that domain.

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Screening IT Families Family 120

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. This bill would also require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover a colonoscopy based on a positive test result.

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Insurance Management Hospital Vaccination 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms?

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And those of us who work in palliative care are more familiar with the 5ht3 receptor, which we use for nausea management. Due to this sense of allostatic overload, like you’re just overwhelmed and you don’t have the resources, the self efficacy or the self esteem to manage it. So 5ht2 was. Because we don’t.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Comprehensive Primary Care for Michigan Communities What sets this clinic apart is its comprehensive approach to primary care. From managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension to preventive care and health screenings, the clinic is known for providing patient-centered care.

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Clinic Chronic Disease Management Primary Care Medical 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Alex and I did a study on over 2000 community dwelling older adults, and we found that over two thirds of people had geriatric conditions, these geriatric syndromes, and palliative care related problems like pain, difficulty climbing stairs. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist. Throw it in the trash.”

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their communities? If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. With their regular providers?

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Ken 10:29 Yes.

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IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Think of the 10 years it takes to benefit from colon or breast cancer screening, which is designed to detect slow growing cancers. This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. See screenshot below. James: Yeah. Eric: All right.

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Clinic IT Patients Medical 68

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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