Integrated Care News by CFHA

JUNE 12, 2025

On October 6, 2017, a van loaded with medical supplies departed from the Health Center, bound for the local airport. The Holyoke Health Center, in collaboration with the Family Resource Center at Enlace de Familias , played a pivotal role in this local relief effort. In response, the people of Holyoke, Massachusetts, mobilized.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study aims to investigate the impact of data visualization using China-PAR on managing hypertension among primary care patients. Setting or Dataset two primary health centers. Moreover, the intervention has been shown to reduce hospital admission rates among patients with hypertension (RR=10.26, 95% CI 1.24-84.82).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: COACH — a patient-facing decision support tool integrated into the electronic record. timeliness and satisfaction) and decreases message center burden; people suggested the trial's protocol emphasizes team-based approaches for recruitment and evaluation. Consideration of the care team workflows (i.e.,

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. However, it wasn't clear to us how easy it would be to apply this information, given that we usually need to prioritize patients on the schedule for that day.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The PORTRAIT Registry tracked 797 patients with new or worsening PAD symptoms at vascular specialty clinics and highlighted the underutilization of prevention services and significant disparities in quality of life among women, non-white patients, and those with financial barriers.

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Community Patient-Centered Utilities Diagnosis 130

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

We often distance ourselves from emotions to stay focused in emergencies or maintain professionalism with patients or in power differential situations in training. Sometimes though our sympathetic response goes on overdrive and we need grounding or centering techniques. Take your own pulse." often impulsively. Will-power is finite.

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A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

This was in part because we shared patients and patient experiences between our departments and had a bidirectional way of making warm handoffs. If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

Concierge Choice Physicians

MAY 13, 2025

Your healthcare organization has a vital untapped resource: your patient relationships. You will not have to turn away patients. There is no need to relocate physicians or patients. There are consequences to delay, however. The healthcare industry is facing a period of great turmoil and uncertainty. There is no cost.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 12, 2025

Given the complex interplay among these functions, gathering patient perspectives on those core functions seems key to effectively operationalizing and measuring them. Patients experience primary care firsthand, offering valuable insights into the accessibility, scope, coordination, and continuity of services.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

We may only have 15 minutes with each patient. In primary care it is often necessary to think in terms of including more than our area of interest in our mental picture of our patient. So my mental picture of the problem area ends up being like a photograph with everything surrounding the center of the picture a bit blurry.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Advice Screening 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

It moves away from fragmented systems, provides alternatives to medication-only treatment paths, and leads patients to practical pathways for healing—whether for anxiety, diabetes management, depression, or addiction. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Several years ago, my daughter Emma introduced me to some videos on YouTube of a dermatologist from California who posted her sometimes shocking but always intriguing encounters with patients who suffered from a variety of dermatologic issues. Well, okay--Emma liked pus and blackheads. Eewww, gross," Emma said. Let's watch it again!"

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

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Edge Family Medicine

JANUARY 9, 2025

As a leading family medical practice in Upland, CA, we champion evidence-based approaches that empower patients to take control of their health. Lifestyle medicine is a patient-centered, evidence-based approach that treats the root causes of chronic diseases. What is Lifestyle Medicine?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions: The differences between the results of Proactive and the clinical examination highlight its potential for patient-centered risk identification. Objective: To validate Proactive. A single participant with severe loss of autonomy found Proactive less useful as it did not provide him with any new information.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Understanding patients’ perspectives and readiness regarding deprescribing—a concept broader than mere drug cessation, encompassing dynamic interaction between patients and health care professionals—is essential for developing feasible and effective deprescribing interventions.

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AMMD

MARCH 13, 2025

Or maybe you often walk into a room and forget what you went in there for? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many people experience this mental cloudiness. What’s behind it? Understanding the causes of brain fog can help you clear the haze and regain mental clarity. Don’t worry! Let’s dive in! What Is Brain Fog?

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The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

and foreign medical graduates matching into family medicine residency programs over the past five years will fall well short of supplying an additional 52,000 primary care physicians by 2025 , a shortage projected by the Robert Graham Center. Image courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians Modest gains in the numbers of U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

High blood urea nitrogen to albumin ratio values in patients with CKD are linked to greater mortality, indicating its potential value as a prognostic indicator. Adjusted Cox regression analysis confirmed the increased 28-day mortality risk in patients with a higher BAR. Compared with tertile 1, tertile 2 had a 1.49

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Patients Patient-Centered Utilities Illness 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Patients with hidradenitis suppurative seek advice online, highlighting unmet needs in clinician-patient education regarding daily self-management strategies. For clinicians treating patients with HS, the findings may inform more tailored patient engagement. Patients inquired about general advice for managing HS symptoms.

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Education Patients Management Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

For the past 30 years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has continuously supported primary care research, funding the first ECHO grant, pioneering patient-centered medical home models, and supporting primary care practice-based research networks.

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Primary Care Specialization Patient-Centered Healthcare 211

Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 24, 2025

Whether it’s your first pap smear or you’re wondering if you can have the test while on your period, this guide walks you through the essentials of women’s health checkups, how to prepare, and common questions many patients have. Many patients search online for variations like: Can you have a pap smear while menstruating?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. SETTING: Academic medical center. Research training is rate-limiting. Funding opportunities for pre-/post-doctoral training exist in the US, including T32 programs.

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Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patient satisfaction is often seen as a key indicator of patient-centered care. Organizations want to ensure that patients feel valued, respected, and supported throughout their healthcare journey.

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Patients Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

Nonadherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment guidelines remains a concern. METHODS We used electronic health records from the PRIME registry to identify patients with diagnosis codes or positive test results for chlamydia and/or gonorrhea from 2018 to 2022. of these cases, respectively, were treated.

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Primary Care Patients Patient-Centered Families 130

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa. How far can you see and hear? Globally 1.1

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Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 20, 2024

Ending up in the hospital can be scary and worrisome for patients and their families, and Eduardo Sanchez Castillo’s experience was no different. Luckily, he quickly learned that he was in good hands with Jennay Jones, NP and the rest of our skilled staff in the Wound Care Center. He also has Diabetes. My foot was bad.

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Patients Patient-Centered Diabetes Hospital 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 28, 2025

At Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States, patients live 6 to 8 years longer than the national average. We’re in the top 5% for eye exams and kidney evaluations, top 10% for statin therapy, and top 25% for blood pressure control for patients with diabetes,” said Dr. McCarthy. This translates into significant improvements.

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Primary Care Doctor Patient-Centered Primary Care Diabetes 84

Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s important to be able to trust your caregivers, and here at Logansport Memorial, we go above and beyond to develop relationships with our patients and provide personalized, high-quality care for our community. Dee Hensel found a sense of comfort and ease in knowing she was in good hands with our staff at the Wound Care Center.

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Patients Patient-Centered Diabetes IT 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

The FamilyPso questionnaire revealed caregiver burden among partners and family members of patients with psoriasis, which could bolster shared decision making. The burden of psoriasis extends beyond the patient to the caregivers who help to manage day-to-day symptoms. Disease Severity Of the 559 caregiver participants, 59.4%

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Patients Patient-Centered Families Family 52

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 27, 2025

In today’s ever-shifting landscape, we know that family physicians face increasing strain caring for patients, administrative burden and navigating a system that undervalues primary care. Paul championing policies that will help improve your work and the lives of your patients. We are in D.C.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patient-oriented evidence supporting PrT is growing. A 21-item mixed-methods paper survey was developed by co-authors in collaboration with a university-based survey center. CONTEXT: Prolotherapy (PrT) is a non-opioid injection-based therapy for chronic pain. and the rationales for adopting or not adopting PrT.

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Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered Families 130

Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

Enhancing Hereditary Cancer Screening at NMC Every day, every patient. Chelsea has spent the better part of a decade developing and implementing a program that ensures everyone who walks through the doors of her department at the Northwestern Medical Center (NMC) in St. Helping patients identify whether they are at high risk is care.

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Patients Screening Patient-Centered Families 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A patient’s relationship with their primary care physician (PCP) or advanced practice provider (APP) is instrumental in their healthcare journey. Study Design and Analysis: We conducted a secondary data analysis of EHR data which include n=10,279,755 encounters among n=278,406 unique patients.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Our family-centered approach ensures children receive age-appropriate preventive care. At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that preventing illness is always better than treating it. These interventions focus on keeping people healthy and addressing risk factors before any symptoms appear.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state.

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Primary Care Board-Certified Patient-Centered DO 52

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Availability and Requirements Vaccination programs in communities, including schools, childcare centers, community gathering places, and homes, also successfully improve vaccine uptake, especially for children less likely to access healthcare. Addressing vaccine hesitancy requires tailored, evidence-based strategies to address the causes.

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