Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Rural health system leaders described 5 methods to provide rural specialty access: community-based, visiting, referrals to larger towns, telehealth, and management by primary care with specialist support. Barriers included workforce shortages, travel times, geography, inclement weather, and insurance limitations.

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Primary Care Community Telehealth Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. A particular focus was those falling outside of the traditional birth cohort. Among new patients, 58.9% were female, 74.4% identified as Black, 79.5%

Behavioral Health Services 130

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Patients Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Referral to and/or visit with an ophthalmologist was most common in metropolitan settings, with similarly lower values in small urban and rural. The proportions of people with any diabetes or anti-hypertensive drug were similar across settings, but with some variation in patterns for insulin and non-insulin diabetes drugs.

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Chronic Disease Management Chronic Disease Illness Management 130

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have a detailed discussion with the patient and family and do shared decision making in terms of interventions, the GI does, and again, these will be the gold standards. So in the odd, rare scenario where you have a family member being treated for H. So, a kid with mild symptoms, and you want to rule out gallbladder disease?

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

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Family Medicine DO Family Families 40

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

I practice family and sports medicine as part of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group here in Fontana, California. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. Access is so important because that is the reason the patient signs up with health insurance is so that they can get care, whether primary or specialty.

IT 52

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. And we’ve really tried to serve that hospice mission of serving the patient and the family.

Family 132

Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We could look at cancer registry linked with… Like, I see here Medicare type big data sets, but then you have to rely on insurance claims and that’s going to underestimate SUD when most people aren’t getting treatment and it’s a tough nut to crack. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130