GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” The problem is, that’s actually not a very good narrative for nearly everything we take care of in healthcare. And the blue stripey bear says to the red stripey bear, “I have a fracture. I need to fix it.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Because this revolving door in the emergency room was basically assault and battery, if you will.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And then, the system responds in turn.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. We do talk about healthcare policy. It was like talking about smoking cessation. You’re pre contemplative. Anybody do.

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Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. And that’s more standard.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Or, if they were in the emergency room and decided to be admitted for comfort measures only, I would admit them.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Not the thing that saves our healthcare institutions some more money.

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