Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 12, 2025

The four core functions of primary care—the 4Cs (first contact, comprehensiveness, coordination, and continuity)—are fundamental to achieving high-quality care. Patients experience primary care firsthand, offering valuable insights into the accessibility, scope, coordination, and continuity of services.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2023

Most patients who go to see a primary care doctor are concerned about improving their physical health. There are many factors that impact our physical health- genetics, environmental exposures, economic resources, and behaviors. However, one large factor in physical health that patients often ignore is mental health.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. That’s where urgent care comes in—a middle ground that’s convenient, affordable, and effective. Urgent care offers a middle ground where you can get relief quickly.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! The healthcare system in the US is not well-designed for the kind of care that is required to get to the bottom of these symptoms.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. And as it speaks to this podcast, I found that radiation oncology also offered me the ability to treat patients with palliative intent treatment, both adults and children, and allows me to sort of treat every area of the body and focuses on anatomy.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 20, 2025

Make sure to note how long the symptoms last, how often they occur, and their severity Keep track of your menstrual cycle, including length of periods, time between them, and heaviness of flow Compile Your Medical History Gather information about your past medical conditions and surgeries.

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