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Brigham Young Geriatrician: Physician Residents Need to Learn Hospice Principles, Senior’s Specific Needs

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Physicians in training need greater exposure to geriatric training in order to better grasp the needs of older patients, including during transitions to hospice, according to Dr. Julia Lowenthal, a geriatrician from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 About 12% of the 2.1 million primary care visits in 2016.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Summary Transcript Summary. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. They’ve all been laid out for you. Alex: Great Eric: These are the questions submitted by our audience? Anne: Right. So, we’re not totally winging it here. Alex: Oh no.

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Executive Moves at UnitedHealth Group, Treasure Coast Hospice

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Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Fluent in English, French and Arabic, Abdo has led the Louisiana State University’s geriatric medicine fellowship program since 2016. Lucie, as well as at Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center. “I

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