GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. It was like talking about smoking cessation.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community IT Screening 116

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Including, I think, a 24/7 palliative care intervention in the emergency room, an inpatient comfort care intervention for COVID-positive patients … doing a tremendous amount. So we anticipated, based on what was happening in Seattle, a pretty large influx of elders that were going to come through the emergency room.

Nurse Practitioner 136

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136

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.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115