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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

Imagine her hearing for the first time that you’re sick, that you’re hospitalized, that you’re in the ICU, and that you can’t make your own decisions? And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. That’s a huge amount of news all at once. This is Eric Widera.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. That’s where we’re focusing our efforts. Tell me about that. So it’s give and take.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization. And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” he said.