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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

These services form the cornerstone of modern healthcare, allowing medical professionals to identify potential health issues before they become serious problems. 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.

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

The Physicians Foundation

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.

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Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

Pamela Wible MD

Is this official mental health care? 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? Our physician peer support groups meet every Sunday (except major holidays and during live retreats).

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

GeriPal

In their communities? If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. Actually, we’ll have a podcast coming out in a couple of weeks on behavioral health in palliative care. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.”

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

GeriPal

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 is a screening? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. Is it an assessment?

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

GeriPal

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. Diane: Yeah.