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Corporate Liability from Employee Diversion: Costly on Many Fronts

FDA Law

This matter is the latest in a recent string of large monetary settlements between the government and health care providers involving employee diversion. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Sovah Health to Pay United States $4.36 Million to Settle Claims of Controlled Substance Act Violations (June 8, 2022).

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Are You Recall Ready? FDA Expects You to Be

FDA Law

FDA has model recall communication templates available here that firms can utilize. Firms also need to maintain distribution records to facilitate identifying the direct accounts that received the recalled product by name, physical address where the product was delivered, and contact information.

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

GeriPal

So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. I don’t have access to change the levers of government. Eric 19:56 Okay, but I’m a primary care provider. But I don’t.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Government. Deaths due to physical restraint. Physical and chemical restraints. Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. Dtsch Arztebl Int.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!? And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. And guess what? Diane: Yeah.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.