Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

SENATE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE Patient-Centered Care Program ( SF 1059 ): Proposal: The bill proposes removing managed care from MA by having the Department of Human Services (DHS) make direct payments to providers. Supporters Say: This will improve care coordination.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Telehealth Management Finance 52

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

It improves symptom management. That’s what nursing and nursing homes should be really, really good at: is providing nursing care that creates comfort. But yet the changes we saw, the transitions we saw, but we didn’t transition the care. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60