East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

In this blog, we will explore the significance of regular health check-ups and how they contribute to your overall well-being. What are Regular Health Check-ups? Regular health check-ups are proactive visits to your healthcare provider when you are not experiencing any specific symptoms or ailments.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: We analyzed eleven interviews with primary care providers recruited from ABFM diplomates who completed a recertification exam in 2023. Analysis: All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed utilizing NVivo software following an inductive content analysis approach.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Adults with multiple chronic diseases, mental health comorbidities, and/or social vulnerabilities, may have complex health and social care needs (hereafter "complex needs"). enhanced experience), health system (e.g. strengthened capacity, capability, and collaboration) and community (e.g. healthier communities).

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

Chronic pain can affect all areas of our lives, including our relationships, sleep, and mental health, and it may even lead to a lower quality of life. Together with the Pain Management Group (PMG), Logansport Memorial is dedicated to providing high-quality care right here in our community.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortage s of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers. Provide coverage for planned and unplanned time off without overburdening permanent staff.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In fact, some Emergency Departments note that as many as one tenth of their patient volume is mental health. They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. Pediatric behavior and mental health is an epidemic, and one that is likely to get even worse.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A more Western perspective on health care emphasizes the role of physicians and health care providers and marginalizes the role and contributions of doulas and midwives. Dr. Jordan then questions the utility and continued operation of methadone clinics, especially as the United States largely moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Kushel and Mr. Watts remind healthcare providers to speak out about the structural causes of homelessness. Push back against discussions that homelessness is caused by substance use or mental health problems. This episode was hosted by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Jazzmin Williams, and Alec Calac. Calac, Victor A.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What Happened: Passed out of the House of Representatives HB 46 – Rural Physicians Tax Credit What’s in the Bill: HB 46 terminates the existing Rural Physician Tax Credit program in Alabama, which provided tax credits to physicians practicing in rural areas, effective December 31, 2025.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. David: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Studies demonstrate that utilizing one of these storage methods can reduce the suicide and unintentional gun deaths in children by up to 54%. [ Kristen ] Great question. In our current environment, it can feel overwhelming as a healthcare provider to discuss firearms. You can purchase these for about $25-100.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Janet: So as Julie Childers often says in the same way that as palliative care clinicians we can take a first pass to address distress from depression without being necessarily mental health counseling specialists or a psychiatrist.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. They do the homework they talk about then with their doctor or their healthcare provider. Like, what communities would have been included for that study? It was not different.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The University provided guidance on how to recruit youth ambassadors, train community members and staff to accomplish the goals of the project, to decrease the vaccine hesitancy rate and increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among youth through education/outreach from respected individuals and organizations from local communities.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Lexy: Well, so no.

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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. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. Rachelle: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Yeah.

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