The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Dr. Margot Kushel is a Professor of Medicine and Division Chief at the Division of Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Push back against dehumanizing language.

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Community Patient-Centered Emergency Room Medical 52

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Really, only thing that I think was really in the biomedical health services literature at that time was probably Carla’s paper on loneliness. .” Or was that just the lingering conversations?

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital. We have these quality metrics like hospitalization days before death, used hospice, enrolled in hospice, and days before death. And so, how can this be?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

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. To Susan’s point. Eric: Yeah.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. And I was terrified. You get double whammy.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

And really they’re trying to understand what reasonable quality of life can this person expect to achieve and just agonizing over those decisions, over every individual decision. That makes us lots of money for our hospital, but none of them want to be in the ICU and a respirator because we’re not making as much money off of that.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108