GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. Eric: Great.

IT 113

IT Provider Patients Family 113

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? So we know these patients are really, really sick.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”.

Nurse Practitioner 136

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. High-level review of the evidence would tell you that patient and family member, and caregiver experience in hospital-at-home is better than when their loved one is in the hospital. We did our initial pilot study. Eric: Yeah.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115