GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. You can use it on one thing to either have government, individual providers, healthcare systems do one thing differently. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? Lightning round: magic wand.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

.” Hospitals that do stay afloat likely will do so by cutting services that are particularly dependent on Medicaid reimbursements, such as labor and delivery units, mental health care, and emergency rooms. Nearly half of rural hospitals are operating in the red and 432 are vulnerable to closure.

Finance 52

Finance Hospital Community Emergency Room 52