GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

That put me in the emergency room. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. David 12:31 Yeah, if you believe the results of an informal. They set up a medical cannabis clinic, has some great slides and information.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision. ” Ruth: Yes, you could say that if somebody had all the information they needed and chose a form of treatment, then yes, that’s a difference.

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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. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Those kinds of things. ” I always get myself into problems.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

And then once we have the surrogate, let’s really try to give them the information they need to make decisions. We do consults all the time on these where different people will say, no, it makes sense to try. And so there’s chances that we could do better with this information. The chances are too low.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

one of the Senate Democrats who requested the information from Sheps, in a statement said communities should know exactly what they stand to lose if Congress approves the reductions to Medicaid. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), “People will die” if rural hospitals close, he said. Medicaid cuts would push them further into financial peril.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

“But we can’t really prove this,” said Kaye Pestaina, director of the Program on Patient and Consumer Protection at KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News. Hall believes the insurance company’s coverage limits set his recovery back by months — and, ironically, cost the insurer more.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. We were also informed that there was a long waiting list of inmates wanting to be hospice volunteers because the program was so highly valued.

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