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Infant Mortality Needs Assessment for Fairborn, Ohio [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

This project is based on a grant given to provide infant mortality health education and promotion interventions to low-income families at Hawthorne Landing, an apartment complex in Fairborn. Study Design This study utilized a combination of qualitative and quantitative design to perform a needs assessment of Fairborn, Ohio.

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Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

GeriPal

So in those cases, can we adopt an approach to mental health care that centers primarily around quality of life of patients and their families? So here in California, if somebody uses end of life options, wants to die, and I’m doing their mental health assessment, I do have to make sure that they have decision making capacity.

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