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High Peaks Hospice celebrates National Doctors Day with a Spotlight on our Medical Director

High Peaks Hospice

High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. After graduating from Medical School, to assist in the repayment of his school debt, he went on to fulfill a commitment to serve an underserved area for a three-year period.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today. Alex: We have some wonderful guests.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So since 2008, we’ve been providing the service using our foundation money. And it became a terror for me. Malaz: The MVP.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose.