Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

At the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), we see your agenda aligning with ours in powerful ways. It moves away from fragmented systems, provides alternatives to medication-only treatment paths, and leads patients to practical pathways for healing—whether for anxiety, diabetes management, depression, or addiction.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 3, 2025

In today’s reality, with Meaningful Use, ACOs and Patient Centered Medical Homes, we have to screen for various conditions and risk factors, update medication lists, immunizations and family and social history in every single visit. Double booking is sometimes used as a strategy to manage no-shows. Government.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system. BHPs interacted with practice team members of all roles, but spent the most time consulting with medical providers, social workers, care managers, and nurses.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Collaborative Approach: Direct primary care physicians work closely with patients, families, and other healthcare providers to develop a comprehensive care plan. When she joined our direct primary care practice, we were able to develop a personalized treatment plan that included medication management and counseling.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. Then you prepare the provider to have the discussion also. Eric: So, two components: you got a patient focused, sounds like component and a provider. Eric: Can I ask?

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Specialization Medical Patient-Centered Provider 104

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. We have medical social workers who support the patients. And we’ve really tried to serve that hospice mission of serving the patient and the family. They suffered from it.

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