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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. Access to high-quality medical care is critical for your employees and your organization's health. If you have a great relationship with your PCP, keep it! Sadly, up to 80% do not.

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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Preventative Care A family physician will have a complete medical history for you and your family. This doctor can see patients for common ailments, vaccines, or medical conditions. You may see your general practitioner for a referral to someone else, such as a psychologist, for a mental illness.

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

GeriPal

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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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room. Market factors that may influence hospital transfers and feeding tube use.

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

GeriPal

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. I think most states have them.

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

GeriPal

And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. And then you can make a medical recommendation that matches with what they’ve told you. Get the hospice referral. You have to hear what they understand. And that skill is hard. Eric: On EHR?

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. An added plus, besides learning the German language, is that the medical schools and universities, once they accept students, including foreigners, do not charge tuition.