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Maternity Care: Why It’s Important and Where You Can Get It

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

At Center for Family Medicine , we offer free pregnancy screenings. At Center for Family Medicine, we noticed that often pregnant women face several barriers when it comes to getting prenatal care. For example, some women don’t have insurance, and some women don’t have access to transportation.

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Health-Related Social Needs Increase and Persist following Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Health-related social needs (HRSN), such as housing, food, and transportation, play a major role in overall patient health and well-being. ITS model- proportion of individuals who screened positive for at least one HRSN, aggregated by week. Logistic regression model- binary indicator for a positive screen.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. So, I digress.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. Suresh was a barge captain, a dangerous and thrilling profession that led him to transport goods across international waters. Ricky 11:23 Yeah. So rewind a few years.

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