The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

Fitzhugh Mullan advocated for a more expansive role for the NHSC in the 21st century, including options to practice community-oriented primary care, in urban hospitals, in public health, and in prison and international health settings. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Individuals who frequently attend the ED comprise up to 10% of patients, while accounting for a third of ED visits. Patient and visit-level data on gender, age, residence location, ambulance arrival, triage category, specialist consultations, ICD-10 discharge diagnosis, and hospital admission were analyzed. median: 6, IQR: 2.0).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Introduction: Super-utilization (frequent acute hospital care use or frequent emergency department (ED) utilization and readmissions) describes high rates of emergency department visits and hospital admissions by some individuals.

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The Health Policy Exchange

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

At that point, he had not yet committed to the individual health insurance mandate that made his reforms possible but later became a political liability during his Presidential campaigns. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Together, Romney and Kennedy approached the George W.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Study Design and Analysis: A longitudinal cohort was surveyed through the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Three PC practices (two private and one hospital-based) in the High Plains Research Network and the Colorado Research Network in rural Colorado. Tailoring individual strategies can facilitate SBIRT implementation in rural PC practices. Study Design: Collective case study approach using qualitative summaries of PF field notes.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

Physicians, particularly primary or family care doctors, value the doctor-patient relationship too. And, in response to patient demand, concierge care is growing every day, especially in large medical groups, hospitals, and healthcare organizations. ” Their doctor makes them feel like family.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. From the time of its inception until October 2017, Family Physicians of St. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JANUARY 24, 2025

There is endless contradictory nutrition advice from strongly opinionate individuals out there (anyone take a deep-dive into the evidence of coconut oil – a plant based oil with lots of saturated fat?), Diverse family preferences : Everyone wants something different. Most of these won't be new or unique to you. Sound familiar?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: A combined dataset consisting of prenatal data from a primary care database and intrapartum data from a provincial hospital administrative database. Significance was set as p < 0.05.Dataset:

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

As we move into the tenth week of the legislative session, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) lobbyist Megan Verdeja breaks down what’s happening at the Minnesota State Capitol and provides an update on health care bills. Listing circumstances under which an individual health plan cannot be renewed.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 20, 2025

In a commentary published in Becker’s Hospital Review, Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, and Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEOs of The Permanente Federation, explain why value-based care provides a blueprint for ensuring our health care system can deliver high-quality care to the growing population of older adults. population,” said Drs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

Research shows that patient violence spans care settings, starting in the out-of-hospital setting, continuing in the ED, and persisting into inpatient units. The analysis captured 206 violent out-of-hospital encounters, 868 violent ED encounters, and 3,561 violent non-ED hospital encounters involving 2,251 unique patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze focus group and individual interview data. Population Studied: Nurses, family physicians, obstetricians, midwives, and hospital leaders involved in L&D at selected hospitals.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) adopted a resolution (policy guidance) in 2024 related to addressing food insecurity in Minnesota. Family physicians play a pivotal role in combating food insecurity, serving as trusted advocates for their patients and connecting them to essential food resources.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. series The Pitt has drawn praise for its unflinching portrayal of the ED, including a widely discussed episode in which a patient’s family member violently assaults a nurse. The severity of this problem has even made its way into pop culture. The Warner Bros.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The authors used a qualitative research design, interviewing five psychiatrists from Pantang Psychiatric Hospital and two psychiatry residents rotating at Pantang and Accra Psychiatric Hospital in Accra, and Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in Cape Coast.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.) Practices most often offer patients Cologuard® or Colonoscopy depending on patient risk, familial history, or past screening results. are needed to reach US CRC screening goals.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston, examined the cost-effectiveness of cessation of public water fluoridation and associations with oral health among children aged 0 to 19 years. Sung Eun Choi, Ph.D., from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Lisa Simon, M.D., Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The analysis included 2,474 individuals overdue for cervical cancer screening and randomly assigned to a telephone reminder (TR) for clinic-based screening (828 individuals), TR with mailed SC (828 individuals), or TR with mailed SC and patient navigation (818 individuals). Montealegre, Ph.D., percent in the TR group, 41.1

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Key informants involved in the implementation: people with complex needs (n = 2), managers (n = 17), hospital case manager (n = 1), case managers in primary care clinics (n = 14), project managers (n = 2), physicians in charge of participating clinics (n = 4), and other healthcare professionals (n = 2).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Individuals who self-reported their occupation as "physician" were included in this study. Further analysis was made of individuals within that population who self-identified their race/ethnicity as either non-Hispanic white (NHW) or Hispanic/Latino, regardless of race. This 5-year data set is the latest available.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. Look for patterns in reviews, such as: Timeliness Bedside manner Support staff professionalism Also, ask friends, family, or even your pharmacist for personal recommendations.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Disease Diagnosis If a patient visits a hospital with specific symptoms, a primary care doctor diagnoses what they're suffering from. Annual Check-Ups Primary care doctors can also perform annual check-ups on individuals. Therefore, if you're feeling unwell, contact Hitchcock Family Medicine today to get started with an appointment.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design. Secondary endpoints were visits to the emergency department and hospitalizations in last 3 months. Implementation was conducted over a 3-month period. Baseline and 3-month follow-up data were collected through phone-based questionnaires.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Individuals with gonorrhea and chlamydia positive tests. 52.7% (n=2311/4385) were diagnosed in a Hospital / ED setting, 25.2% (1107) within a primary care setting, and 18.1% Setting: MedStar Health, a multidisciplinary and multispecialty health care system in the mid-Atlantic US. in an urgent care setting.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In a traditional healthcare setup, doctors are often overwhelmed with large patient rosters, leaving them with limited time for each individual. One of my favorite success stories involves a patient who had a strong family history of diabetes. In a concierge model, however, I had the time to help him develop a proactive health plan.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SAFE used a stratified, two-stage, clustered design to obtain a nationally representative sample of mothers of infants; mothers were enrolled from 32 US birth hospitals, January 2011-March 2014. Looking beyond the individual and supporting healthy communities will be critical to improve US breastfeeding rates.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Community cohorts included 160,288 (pre-pandemic) and 166,392 (pandemic) individuals. Nursing home cohorts included 91,646 (pre-pandemic) and 90,727 (pandemic) individuals. Conclusions: There is a need for a single hospital/ICU triage protocol, particularly for very frail older adults such as PLWD.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

. “Understanding whether there are specific thresholds of weight reduction associated with minimum or maximum cardiometabolic benefits may assist clinicians in tailoring weight reduction goals to individual patients seeking to reduce their cardiometabolic risk,” the authors write.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital in Unity Health Toronto, and Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the current President of the Canadian Medical Association.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

JULY 2, 2024

Logansport Memorial Hospital is pleased to congratulate Laura Douglass of Medical Records/Coding on her retirement. When asked about what she will miss most about our organization, she answered, “I made so many friends here that became like family, some are no longer with us. Eventually, we became the closest of friends!”

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 21, 2025

Group retreats host 4 to 7 physicians, combining facilitated individual coaching and inspiring group activities. You saved my life.” ~ Family Medicine Resident, PA “As the son of a doctor and a psychiatrist, I’ve run across all kinds of would-be healers and experts of the mind. Can’t travel? Virtual retreat options available.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief.

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