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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

CFHA represents thousands of professionals across the country who are implementing integrated care —the coordination of medical and behavioral health care in primary care and specialty settings. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit.

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Between Patients: The Myth of Multitasking

A Country Doctor Writes

Primary care doctors don’t usually have scheduled blocks of time to read incoming reports, refill prescriptions, answer messages or, what we are told the future will entail, manage their chronic disease populations. This results in most primary care doctors logging in to their EMRs from home after supper and on the weekends.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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10 Things To Do To Keep Your Heart Happy

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

There are medications that could be prescribed to help with your nicotine cravings. Know Your Values: Please go see your primary care physician to get blood tests done. Cholesterol, sugars, kidney, liver and electrolytes are typically screened during annual wellness visits. There is no easy way to broach this.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. They’re really not. ” Emmy: “No.”

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