GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. I’d be operating at the top of what I’m capable of doing, to provide really tailored and individualized care for my patients and their care partners, where they are. Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Janet: So as Julie Childers often says in the same way that as palliative care clinicians we can take a first pass to address distress from depression without being necessarily mental health counseling specialists or a psychiatrist. And there’s no excuse for that now because as of this year, it is simple to get the X waiver.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 102

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Again, as Greg said, where the individual chooses what works best for them. ” And then, the health plan can say, “Can you follow-up on this? To Susan’s point.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89