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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

& We participate within our dental community in educational meetings and events, which builds our trust in the specialist. The question often becomes, how can we overcome this disparity in attitudes towards our professional network of referrals? & To us it seems simple; we work with our colleagues on a daily basis.&

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

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. Specialty referrals can be reduced or eliminated. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. Learn more.","robots":"index","keywords":"skin

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Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

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

GeriPal

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

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. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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

GeriPal

It’s that first place that you start where it may not be the AAAs job, but we’ve organized where they have to have the partnerships and they know who the players are and they know who to make a referral to. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event.