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.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 102

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Like, what does that part look like?

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

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. For those individuals, how do you think about that? Alex 01:17 We had the wrong terms drilled into us. We just unlearn what we have learned.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. Eric: There was also a comment about expansion of the role of the CNA in the nursing home in the report. Goal five is focused on quality insurance, so designing a more effective and responsive system of quality assurance. Tell me about that. Eric: Okay.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. Right now, the pay per service.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

By partnering with our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners in Mesa, Arizona, you gain access to evidence-based preventive care services that can help you maintain optimal health, detect problems early, and prevent complications from existing conditions.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. Eric: Virtual or in person, for the MD?

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115