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Completion of Client Navigation Goals Following Participation in a Student-Led Patient Navigator Program [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The Patient Navigator Program (PNP) is a unique medical student-run program providing services for persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) in Dallas, Texas, at United Gospel Mission (UGM) clinics. Comparison of healthcare vs. non-healthcare goal completion frequencies was conducted using a chi-squared analysis.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. What are the limitations of permanent healthcare staffing solutions? As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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STATEMENT RELEASE: FDA Task Force Statement on President Trump’s First 100 Days in Office

Doctors for America

However, this assessment comes with alarm – essential services our patients rely on and that we as clinicians need to provide high-quality, evidence-based care have been obliterated by seemingly haphazard decision-making. DFA teaches physicians and medical students advocacy skills and does advocacy at a state and federal level.