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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. Eric: So as long as Medicare is not paying for the… Or Medicaid, I guess, for nursing. Long-term care.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. ” How hard would it be for every medical director, every director of nurses, every administrator to know the first and last name of every CNA who works in that building? Great to be back.