Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Filling Critical Healthcare Staffing Gaps For many healthcare facilities, such as those located in rural areas of the country, the healthcare staffing shortage is already here —but for others, it’s a looming issue that must be planned for. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers.

Medical Staff 52

Medical Staff Medical Patients Healthcare 52

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

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.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

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.

Patient-Centered 122

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? Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. They don’t have nearly the responsibilities that a certified nursing assistant has when thinking about utilities, groceries, rent, mortgage, all of that stuff on a monthly basis.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77