Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

For residents of Mesa and the surrounding East Valley communities, staying current with recommended preventive care can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. In Arizona’s climate, skin cancer screenings are particularly important given our high sun exposure.

Preventative Care 100

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Preventive Care Strategies That Save Lives in Mesa, Arizona Our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners at Mesa Family Physicians understands the unique health challenges facing our local community. Our Mesa physicians are experts at helping local residents balance health priorities with career demands.

Family Physician 100

Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care Family 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. So that means that we all screen for every domain in our interactions. And we recognize it, we screen for it.

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Screening IT Family Families 120

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Bragging rights.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. And in the community, not just in acute care”, which is just… First day of nursing school, they’ve told us, “You have to remember that a hospitalization is a blip on somebody’s screen.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? A lot of times the nurse practitioners indicated that the staff were very task focused.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78