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Misconceptions of Employer Sponsored Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Plum Health

Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits. Thus, DPC forms a better long-term investment focused on preventive care, as opposed to only treating patients post-diagnosis. If you have a great relationship with your PCP, keep it!

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic?

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. Eric: And Susan? And then, we have nonprofits that are community-based organizations.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Get the hospice referral. What’s that and what’s the shift there? Rachelle: Juliet, do you want to take that one? Juliet: Sure.

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