Integrated Care News by CFHA

JUNE 12, 2025

On October 6, 2017, a van loaded with medical supplies departed from the Health Center, bound for the local airport. Residents and local leaders joined forces to send food and clothing to the island and to welcome newly arrived families to their town. What followed was a powerful expression of community and compassion.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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Medical Student Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I was on a retreat with Guy Micco , who’s been on this podcast several times, and he was teaching a class on death while I was in medical school. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? And dying is too big, too profound for any one model, including the medical model. That was it.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. And it’s a lot easier to calculate prognosis likely from, you know, the labs and the medical record than it is to, like, get patients to stomp onto a survey about quality of life.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us?

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93