Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

Residents can access top hospitals, vibrant communities, and many lifestyle amenities, including parks, museums, and restaurants. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants: These advanced practice providers have advanced education and training, allowing them to perform tasks traditionally done by physicians.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Ethnographic data was collected across three primary care settings in the Greater Toronto Area and included two Family Health Teams and one Community Health Centre. Population studied: Participants included 10 primary care providers (5 physicians, 2 social workers, 1 nurse practitioner, 2 residents), 9 patients and 1 caregiver.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this interdisciplinary collaboration, primary care and critical care clinician researchers came together with informatics and implementation experts to design this community-based pilot project. Context: Given limited critical care resources and an aging population, early interventions to prevent critical illness are vital.

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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. There may not be enough time for prevention in primary care, but family physicians need to keep providing it the best we can. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

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Primary Care Family Physician Preventive Care Preventative Care 52

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.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

“What we’ve seen to make it really work is you either have to be in the hospital, where we’ve taken over palliative care in the hospital, or you have to be contracted with managed care and get it at some kind of risk, because community-based palliative care is very difficult to make operate right now from a profitable [perspective].”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

And so I thought let’s try to figure out actually how many they are, where they are they in academic centers and community centers. And the goal is to maybe just form a community of people so that we can learn from each other. Are they community dwelling? So it was one of many reasons why this study needed to be done.

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Today we are delighted to welcome from the East Coast, we have Nadine Carter, who’s a nurse practitioner who spent seven years in outpatient endocrinology and is now a hospice and palliative care fellow at Dartmouth Health and instructor at Dartmouth. Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today. Nadine: In Idaho.

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 22, 2025

Ready to Join Our Physician Support Community? Wible personally screens each participant to ensure they’re in the best group for their unique needs. What are the benefits of joining a physician peer support group? Our mission is to help physicians live their dreams in medicine. Don’t face your struggles alone.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 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. To share your feedback with the Hematology Board on this report or other issues that are important to you, please complete this brief survey.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their communities? And in the community, not just in acute care”, which is just… First day of nursing school, they’ve told us, “You have to remember that a hospitalization is a blip on somebody’s screen. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. And I returned to school to become a nurse practitioner.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. Jerry: I would just add that geriatrics is an amazing community. And I love this community. We don’t have a geriatrician. I definitely do.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shadow the head nurse practitioner at the Augusta clinic. I hope to continue my involvement with such an inspiring group of leaders who value community, collaboration, and commitment to service. The experience will certainly shape the rest of my career.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. So you know, we talked about the community that we established over the last seven years with this study. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? A lot of times the nurse practitioners indicated that the staff were very task focused.

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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. Whether they have a social worker, a nurse, a physician, an NP on the team, they know what to do with that information.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Marian: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. So initially hospice grew as a non-profit, charity based, community based organization. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today. Alex: We have some wonderful guests. Now it’s 70%.

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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. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that. No difference.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. Juliet: Just I think this notion of communities coming more into our field. You interviewed some geriatricians. It is very active here.

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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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. Alex 01:17 We had the wrong terms drilled into us. We just unlearn what we have learned. laughter] Eric 01:21 Like narcotics. Pearls tips?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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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 ). It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we from the very beginning had an option of clinician administered medical assistants in dying or lethal drugs administered by either a nurse practitioner or a physician or self-administered. Leonie: Between Canada and most of the states that have legalized it’s assisted suicide in the US. And like 99.8%

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy. These are oncology nurse practitioners.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Are you willing to move into a senior community? I’ve got another grant going in that’s looking at the family members, and also part three, looking at providers, looking at nurse practitioners and physicians. When I’m in clinic, I can usually ask them, “What is the most important thing for you?”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included. Diane: Yeah.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. And I was able to do 90% of what my community wanted and open one month later with no outside funding.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

We have lost so many nurses. The part that I loved of this campus was this was the community arm of the university. We are a community-based hospital. Darrell: So many nurses have left for a variety of reasons. ” Basically you had practitioners, physicians, nurse practitioners that normally would be there.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. How is it financed and what comes next?

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