Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortage s of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. Were these palliative care trained nurses and social workers? Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah. It used to be a much more complicated model.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). This was the hot topic at AHPM. Katie: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu. Lexy: Well, so no.

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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. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. You get double whammy.

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