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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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. Were these palliative care trained nurses and social workers? Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah. It used to be a much more complicated model.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. They don’t have nearly the responsibilities that a certified nursing assistant has when thinking about utilities, groceries, rent, mortgage, all of that stuff on a monthly basis.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Did your intervention Lexy actually have any effect on utilization, which again, somewhat argue is the reason that services palliative care get funded?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults. This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. And then, the system responds in turn. I call Greg.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Should it be decreased utilization, decreased use of CPR? There’s what matters to the healthcare systems that put this together, which includes some of your secondary outcomes like utilization, because every intervention costs some money. Maybe just before we jump in, did you see any difference? Just love your thoughts.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Malaz: They are something we call care navigator. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education.

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