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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time. Is that right, Nick? Nick: Yeah.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. But what was really interesting is the transport to the hospital was actually going down in their system.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery. In some cases, you may be referred to a hospital or specialty service.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. and consulting for Papa Health.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. worsening prognosis.

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