ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025, designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information. Preliminary data show that 90% of respondents are clinically active with the majority in hospital- or system-owned practice (38%), academic faculty practice (32.9%) and private practice (26.8%).

Board-Certified 40

Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. 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.

Screening 119

Screening IT Families Family 119

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. hospice use). Tammie 02:56 It usually doesn’t work no matter what. Corita 04:32 Yep.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

But to come back to just nursing homes, when you think about what a nursing home is and the range of people that they take care of, you can see why it’s so tricky to think about how do we get the right services in there. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? Like, what does that part look like?

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. Simone, welcome to GeriPal.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. So, it’s a building problem.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Who do we have with us? Ruth: Thank you. Joan: Thanks.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

FDA Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The recommendations do not apply to inpatient hospital care, in the emergency department or other observed settings. Guideline opioid use recommendations “are not intended to be used as an inflexible, rigid standard of care; rather, they are intended to be guideposts to help inform clinician-patient decision-making.”

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Marian: Thank you.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. Lauren: Thanks for having me.

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IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. How are we gonna do that if he leaves the hospital? Sach 31:47 Yeah.

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Welcome back, Abby.

Family 144

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. That’s what she does.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Eric: Great, thank you both.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes.

Patient-Centered 83

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 83

GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I chose, not healthcare management, which a lot of my colleagues have done, but I actually chose negotiation and dispute resolution, which I thought was fun, as well as marketing. That’s something that I figured we could definitely go after is using those negotiation skills and then moving them over towards the healthcare setting.

Family 96

Family Families IT Patient-Centered 96

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? These are oncology nurse practitioners.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. I could walk down the hall and get information. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. In fact, no one in this hospital died that was not on comfort care. Pretty … Just all things, right?

Nurse Practitioner 136

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136