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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

“But the company really focuses in on patients going to SNFs with COPD, CHF, diabetes—these are the high-acuity diagnoses that you need to pay close attention to,” he points out. The company fills out a tracker form for each, giving each a score based on their readmission probability.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

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. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “Hello.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah. Jessie: Yes.

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What Is The Best Example Of Preventive Care?

Mesa Family Physician

These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed. By partnering with our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners in Mesa, Arizona, you gain access to evidence-based preventive care services that can help you maintain optimal health, detect problems early, and prevent complications from existing conditions.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I’ve met and helped hundreds of nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians recapture this bliss and I want all of you to feel it too. I’m really into fasting but fasting is contraindicated if you’re diabetic and a number of other conditions I saw on the slide (in an earlier talk). People are actually feeling this way.

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