GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. Yeah, yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But that was a small pot of money and we went to first call a handy person, it was going to be $500 for a consultation, let alone the installation, and we were like, “This is absolutely cost-prohibitive. Same thing with kind of medication management. We’ll get four people done.” We do that in medicine all the time.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

So we have a network of community hospitals and not every hospital has a strong ID consult service or some hospitals have one physician covering many, many patients, the whole hospital so may not have the bandwidth to cover everyone. I think some of that depends on the kind of health system or hospital that you are involved with.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. Michele: Thank you for having me. Michele: Yep. And in that one fell swoop, they lost their mom.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. It improves symptom management. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. But what we wanted to do was to control for regional … what’s that called? Ruth: We wanted to control for those regional factors.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

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. Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. Welcome back to GeriPal, Tony. Marian: Thank you.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. It’s not just about physical symptom management. We won’t kill your patient.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Get the hospice referral. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management. Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73