Family Physicians of Greeley

MAY 17, 2023

Maintaining good mental health is essential for our overall well-being. In today’s fast-paced and often stressful world, it’s important to prioritize self-care and adopt strategies that promote mental well-being. Establish Healthy Sleep Patterns: Adequate sleep is crucial for mental health and cognitive function.

Mental Health 40

Mental Health Physicals Healthcare Professional Relationship 40

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

However, a less examined aspect is patient and community engagement outside traditional healthcare settings. Physicians can often literally meet patients where they are and address the broader social determinants of health, such as housing, education, and income, which significantly impact patient well-being and illness prevention.

Chronic Disease Management 52

Chronic Disease Management Community Education Chronic Disease 52

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

“Health systems and payers are asking primary care physicians to take on more — manage multiple complex conditions, answer patient emails, handle insurance administration, and provide mental health and social needs screenings,” said Christopher F. Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In fact, some Emergency Departments note that as many as one tenth of their patient volume is mental health. They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. Pediatric behavior and mental health is an epidemic, and one that is likely to get even worse.

Lab Testing 52

Lab Testing Medical Patients Mental Health 52

GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

So actually, I use a depression screen and I also use an anxiety screen. But in the clinic, through mental health, I’m able to get CBTI pretty readily for my patients. And I’m not a mental health professional, but this is not psychoanalysis. Brienne: Same for us. So you limit the amount of time.

Illness 85

Illness IT Medical Clinic 85

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Evidence-based screening tests based on current medical guidelines, your age, and risk factors.

Preventive Care 100

Preventive Care Preventative Care Appointment Screening 100

Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We’ll also dive into specific health concerns for men and women, as well as the growing importance of mental health in primary care. Primary care is your go-to for all things health-related. Preventive care includes regular health screenings, vaccinations, and lifestyle advice aimed at keeping you in optimal health.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Mental Health IT 52

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

Preventive care is often referred to as the first line of defense in healthcare—and for good reason. In this blog, we’ll break down what preventive care involves, explore its relationship with short-term health insurance, and explain why it’s a critical part of staying healthy at any stage of life.

Illness 100

Illness Preventive Care Preventative Care Insurance 100

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Disaster Behavioral Health Resources SAMHSA Disaster App – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The SAMHSA Disaster App makes it easy to provide quality support to survivors. Users also can share resources, like tips for helping survivors cope, and find local behavioral health services.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Behavioral Health Services Provider Healthcare 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

Dr. Michael Bazel

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A healthcare provider can help weigh the benefits and risks. Cardiovascular Health: Monitor cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and weight to reduce the risk of heart disease. Mental Health: Mood swings and anxiety can persist. Routine Screenings: Mammograms and Pap smears for cancer detection.

Physicals 130

Physicals Management Routine Screenings Medical Advice 130

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. Dr. Nguyen encourages us to recognize how such barriers represent assumptions about people’s capabilities, how they can worsen people’s healthcare, and how they communicate exclusion to our Asian patients.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

She started in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia around Sayantani, and wanted to focus on incarceration as a healthcare issue, and has since engaged in work that attempts to decarcerate health care. Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda: unmasking the betrayal of ‘Healthcare Heroes’. Soc Sci Med. 2013.06.032.

Community 52

Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship 52

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. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 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. David: Right.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. They can use their training and privilege to advocate for meaningful policy reform. The opioid epidemic is more than a white problem.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. The bill also addresses parental access to health information and parental rights.

Insurance 130

Insurance Management Hospital Vaccination 130

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Eric: Yeah. Do they have to have distress, pain, depression?

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? Well, I do it personally.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

It is a screening? These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. And the problem with that, one of those codes is about spiritual assessment, so for me, in a system that has hundreds of hospitals that are now trying to come together as one, we’re the result of a merger of two major health systems.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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. 2023.11.004.

IT 137

IT Families Family Physicals 137

PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Today, we are going to discuss firearm safety and ways to screen for it in both the ED and clinic settings. In our current environment, it can feel overwhelming as a healthcare provider to discuss firearms. Carney and I am a pediatric resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. I’m here with my co-resident, Dr. Humphrey.

Families 52

Families Family Mental Health Healthcare 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So we all went through a pandemic. I guess that’s an event.

Patient-Centered 66

Patient-Centered IT Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Really, only thing that I think was really in the biomedical health services literature at that time was probably Carla’s paper on loneliness. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And they had requested in their cultural tailing that the physician wore a white coat when he was going to be seen on the screen. They do the homework they talk about then with their doctor or their healthcare provider.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So our elders who are people of color, people who live in places that are already challenged by poor air quality and those things and access to healthcare, they also have greater risks. So the things that Karl mentioned, but also access to healthcare during a disaster or even heat. Why is it up to the healthcare system?

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health. Eric 31:19 Yeah.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. Diane: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we firmly believe that preventing health problems before they arise is always preferable to treating them after they’ve developed. Preventive care encompasses a wide range of healthcare services designed to maintain wellness, identify risk factors, and detect disease early when treatment is most effective.

Preventive Care 100

Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations Show Notes by Kiersten T. A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Provider Clinical Practice Clinic 52

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

But this was a family practice study where they randomized 500 healthcare providers to wear surgical masks in routine interactions, 500 to not wear masks, no difference in like anyone getting colds or anything. Part of our recovery is mental health and seeing each other’s faces. And it is part of our being together.

Vaccination 100

Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100