Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. Data from the AMA shows that between 2002 and 2017, there’s been a 28% decrease in graduates from rural medical schools, and only 4%–5% of new medical students are from rural communities.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Healthcare Professional Provider Community 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. 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. These older patients are costing a ton in healthcare costs.

Family 132

Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Much of my training has been in, in sort of the medical management and symptom management of a patient at the end of their life and thinking about how we do that.

IT 66

IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. So, and actually, all of this is actually document, I think what you guys are looking for is more practical advice on sort of management. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130