Hospital Referral Screening Utilities 
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. Food Insecurity Screenings: Hennepin Health Care has integrated the Hunger Vital Signs tool into routine screenings to identify and support at-risk patients.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Eric: Yeah, that is amazing.
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GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Eric 21:49 Yeah.
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. It is a screening? They followed them during the course of their hospital stay. And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. These studies are important.
GeriPal
AUGUST 24, 2023
Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.
GeriPal
JULY 20, 2023
Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you.
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