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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit. You don’t have to build it from scratch.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients. Doing so builds your reputation in the community as a trusted source of excellent care, but relying solely on permanent staff can present challenges in maintaining this standard.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

They were all community dwelling; this wasn’t focused on people who were in skilled nursing facilities or dementia care units or those sorts of settings. So people could live in the community. And then for the provider standpoint, what information did you provide them? Eric: Yeah.

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Push To Move OB-GYN Exam Out of Texas Is Piece of AGs’ Broader Reproductive Rights Campaign

Physician's Weekly

Donna Harrison, an OB-GYN and the director of research at the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, described the petition as an “attack not only on pro-life states but also on life-affirming medical professionals.”

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

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. I can figure out how to provide care in this way. And I’ve got a whole community of people to support me.” ” Barbara: Right.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. It’s by choice, just like in the community. He provides spiritual support to the patients, to the staff, and to the peer workers. Only about 5% of the population is female.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA.