GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Afterwards, we chat with the prison’s chaplain, Keith Knauf.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. We started having palliative care IDGs, where we would have our medical director sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

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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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

He’s a palliative care doctor and he is Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care. And his major social media endeavor is titled How to Train Your Doctor. For GeriPal, it’s really to bring geriatrics and palliative care together. Does that sound about right? I don’t look.

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