GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But I think where it ends up causing problems is just if they’re going to have many sessions, transport to and from, and just the overall cost that can be essentially not feasible for the hospice. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe. There may be co pays or things like that.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. Alex: Yeah. Is this our role?

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. Because when you’re on a SNF stay, hospice is also a part A.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. Again, as Greg said, where the individual chooses what works best for them.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. Eric: Like imaging and labs. We were going to them.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115