Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

Knowing these numbers, it’s imperative we take the opportunity for education and discussion. We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. What is Mental Health?

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Today's Hospitalist

APRIL 24, 2025

Those interventions included standardizing both bed assignments and nursing handoffs while having ED providers—not an inpatient team—enter skeletal orders when deciding to admit a patient. “Our local leadership group wanted to focus on it,” says Dr. Baskin, who serves as chief physician utilization management advisor.

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LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. Build Relationships Physicians must establish solid and lasting relationships with the individuals in their practice.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

That’s why our Practice Management program includes a guided, meeting-by-meeting path for helping clinics transition to renewable energy and cut utility bills—without overwhelming staff or adding to your to-do list. The breadth of services provided by modern day medicine is profound. Looking for a tailored approach?

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The Motivated MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, I think it is important to highlight some of the more frequent offenders to describe how this commonly affects individuals’ lives. Though this is in no way an exhaustive list, the following represents what I believe to be the most common culprits of lifestyle creep and financial pressures in individuals’ lives.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The decision to rent or buy a home is the root of much anxiety in many individuals’ lives. I overhear individuals say things like ‘owning a home is the best investment you can make,’ and’ if you are renting, you are just ‘throwing your money away.’

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. In the wake of a hurricane as devastating as Helene, tens of thousands of individuals are likely filing claims, surely totaling billions of dollars. Stay motivated! The Motivated M.D.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Alex: Great story.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

In defending the complete broadcast, Lilly called out similar elements from each of the individual components as demonstrating its intent to have all three viewed sequentially. And in this case the presentation would be compliant whether each component was shown individually, or, when combining all three sequentially.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. Saving money is simple but not easy.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. I think, as providers, we don’t get to see that.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. These narratives have vilified individuals who would benefit from comprehensive, person-centered substance use treatment, rather than incarceration and other adverse harms.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What Happened: Passed out of the House of Representatives HB 46 – Rural Physicians Tax Credit What’s in the Bill: HB 46 terminates the existing Rural Physician Tax Credit program in Alabama, which provided tax credits to physicians practicing in rural areas, effective December 31, 2025.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Dr. Kushel and Mr. Watts remind healthcare providers to speak out about the structural causes of homelessness. Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice. This episode was hosted by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Jazzmin Williams, and Alec Calac. Calac, Victor A.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. And I think that’s when I got hooked on how do we improve care, in my case again, for kids and families, but also for us, the providers. I can figure out how to provide care in this way.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The 18 methods of contraception listed in the guidelines are derived from a Birth Control Guide (Guide) that the FDA developed in the late 1990s to provide education around relative rates of efficacy across types of contraceptives. 300gg-13(a)(4).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. We provide critical education. Sarguni: I hear what you’re saying and I struggle.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

To me, I think the Greenhouse folks have proven that you can provide quality care in a home-like environment cost effectively if it’s done right. It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Mike, you’re nodding your head no.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there. I mean, there’s a workforce shortage of palliative care providers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Jane: Right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. That’s not news to us.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . And that’s a lot easier if all providers were X waivered too. Janet: But subsequently I went to MJ for fellowship and palliative care which I knew I wanted to do. What’s causing you suffering right now.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. Oh, yeah, yeah. Good artist. Really tasteful.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. Where are my colleagues?”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And resource utilization was very low in all the groups.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) combats COVID-19 misinformation in youth to reduce vaccine hesitancy through targeted outreach and education. Community members were hired as outreach workers (COW) from these communities to provide outreach, education, and connections to vaccination resources.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And that’s in addition to the financial, emotional companionship, and psychosocial support that spouses typically provide.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. And so we’re able to provide access to those patients that may be home-bound or home limited or have a lot of struggles to get in.

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