Moving Forward Coalition’s Post

Alpha Beta Chi Chapter is one of the first chapters to sign-on to this important initiative!

🎉 Happy 7th Anniversary, Meridian Springs Primary Care! 🎉 As we toast to your remarkable journey, we can't help but admire how you've embraced the challenge of expansion while staying true to the heart of Direct Primary Care (DPC). With DPC healthplans, you have grown beyond boundaries, now serving in 6 states and counting! The road for DPCs isn't straightforward. It's a crossroad between maintaining the essence of an activist medical practice and adapting to the broader scope that corporate growth demands. Yet, it's a testament to your dedication that Meridian Springs has found a way to scale up without losing sight of what DPC stands for. With every new employer that partners with DPC healthplans, there lies an opportunity for all DPCs not just for growth but for revolutionizing primary care—ensuring personalized service doesn't become a trade-off for expansion. Here's to celebrating this milestone and the many more to come! May you continue to flourish as an example that with innovation and commitment, DPCs can grow symbiotically with their employers while preserving their unique identity. Bhavana Rao, MD #DPCHealthPlans #MeridianSpringsPrimaryCare #Anniversary #GrowthWithoutCompromise

Tomorrow we’ll be Guest Speakers for Patient Pathways’ special presentation on understanding the role of death doulas! Here’s the lowdown: What Does a Death Doula Do? A Special Presentation Discover the profound and diverse role of a Death Doula in our transformative workshop led by renowned experts, Jo-Anne Haun and Karen Hendrickson of Death Doula Network International. This immersive experience is designed to navigate the complexities of end-of-life care, filling the crucial gaps left by traditional medical and hospice services. In this enlightening session, you will gain invaluable insights into: • The essential function of death doulas in complementing existing care systems, providing emotional, spiritual, and practical support during one of life's most challenging transitions. • The significance of Advance Care Plans and Representation Agreements, including how they safeguard your wishes and ensure they are honored. • Key considerations for choosing a medical representative who can faithfully execute your healthcare preferences. • Strategies for engaging in courageous conversations about end-of-life choices, fostering open and honest dialogue with loved ones and healthcare providers. • Join us for an interactive journey filled with thought-provoking exercises that promise to empower you with the knowledge and tools necessary for comprehensive end-of-life planning. Embrace this opportunity to understand the pivotal role doulas play in enhancing the quality of care and support during the final chapters of life. Free with registration: https://lnkd.in/gWYUM2ze

🚨 Did you know 70% of people over 65 need long-term care*? Life is unpredictable. You may face a disability or a chronic illness affecting your ability to do what you love. You may need long term care. Long term care is not a nightmare. It is a solution. It is a way to keep living your dream life, with dignity and independence. Long term care offers a variety of services that can support your medical, social, personal, and supportive needs. You can choose where and how you receive long term care, whether it’s at home, in a community setting, or in a facility. But long term care can be expensive and complicated. You need a plan to pay for it and find the best options for your situation. That’s why you need me. I’m passionate about your goals and want to work with you on achieving them. I’m here to give you peace of mind and empower you to live your dream life, no matter what, as I plan for the unexpected so you don't have to. *According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, about 70 percent of individuals over age 65 will require at least some type of long-term care services during their lifetimes. Over 40 percent will need care in a nursing home for some period.

🚨 Did you know 70% of people over 65 need long-term care*? Life is unpredictable. You may face a disability or a chronic illness affecting your ability to do what you love. You may need long term care. Long term care is not a nightmare. It is a solution. It is a way to keep living your dream life, with dignity and independence. Long term care offers a variety of services that can support your medical, social, personal, and supportive needs. You can choose where and how you receive long term care, whether it’s at home, in a community setting, or in a facility. But long term care can be expensive and complicated. You need a plan to pay for it and find the best options for your situation. That’s why you need me. I’m passionate about your goals and want to work with you on achieving them. I’m here to give you peace of mind and empower you to live your dream life, no matter what, as I plan for the unexpected so you don't have to. *According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, about 70 percent of individuals over age 65 will require at least some type of long-term care services during their lifetimes. Over 40 percent will need care in a nursing home for some period.

Unlocking a better quality of life for seniors with the PACE program! 🌟 Check out this inspiring video journey showcasing how PACE transforms lives and enhances well-being for our beloved seniors. #SeniorCare #QualityOfLife #PACEProgram

This is my latest column at MedPage Today. The ED Remains Colored by Despair Genevieve Friedman MedPage Today

It’s impossible to know if you will need long-term care in the future, but do you have a plan in place to pay for care if the need arises? According to LongTermCare.Gov, someone turning age 65 today has almost a 70% chance of needing some type of long-term care services and support in their remaining years, for an average of 3 years of care. If your desire is to age in place and avoid spending your later years in a nursing home, preparing for this possibility is an important ingredient in your perfect recipe. At Friends Life Care, our long-term care planning experts ensure you have what you need to cover the cost of care when you need it. To download your guide to Aging in Place and learn more about Friends Life Care, visit https://lnkd.in/erzwuY-q

The theme for this Spring’s The Nature Nurse, PLLC e-newsletter, sent yesterday, is EMERGE. The newsletter included tips to help you live a more joyful, vibrant life in harmony with Mother Nature. If you missed out, feel free to send me your email and I will share it with you and put you on the list for the summer edition. Enjoy this video of a fern and other life emerging in the forest. Even better with the sound on. I welcome your thoughts on the theme: Emerge. #nature #holistichealth #healthylifestyle #planetaryhealth #healthylifestyle

The hospital model is falling apart when ▪️their backbone -experienced nurses are leaving so fast the seniority average was halved 2023. ▪️ER is a hot mess-70% of hospital admissions come in that way-and it importantly will parse out the “good commercial” pts. and so ER admits are critical to thin margins working out. https://lnkd.in/gEqD4Brm When is the next Trillion $ Marshall Plan bailout request expected ? Money doesn’t fix a bad model. The implications of FTC soon disallowing h.care noncompetes for NP’s/ doctors -huge- they will be free to move into a #directcare movement providing maybe 1000s of openings plus annually for the foreseeable future. Burnout is a non starter when CPT codes are swapped out for a monthly subscription model that requires a true EHR tracking care not procedures. No one has to learn upcoding games. Delay care. Argue with clerks. Chart in pj’s. Welcome to a future where everyone wins. Excerpt With the worst of the COVID nightmare now behind us and the public health emergency ending in May, many of us hoped that the lessons of the pandemic would lead to positive changes in American healthcare -- which might ease the situation in the overrun emergency department (ED). That didn't materialize. I suppose that if I had to use one word to describe the tone of the modern American emergency department, it would have to be "despair." Our #patients continue to #despair for many reasons. No small number do so because they inhabit a nightmarish loop that goes from home or #nursinghomes , to #hospital, to #rehab. Rinse, repeat. They are too sick for any #urgentcare or #primarycare office, so they come to the ED where we plug them back into the system as before, knowing their names and medical histories as soon as we see their exhausted faces on the #ems stretchers. Once admitted they end up in uncomfortable rooms in the ED with complex illnesses, but no free beds for inpatient admission. As research now suggests, a significant number of patients on "hold" simply die in our EDs. It's the wrong place for the long-term care of complex problems. Just as awful, even if they are admitted they cannot be easily discharged because there are too few beds for them in nursing homes and rehab centers. Even those with common, everyday problems despair as they wait hours to be treated for #pneumonia or #fracture, for #dehydration or #fever, for uncertain #chestpain, only to be told to wait yet a little longer as the sickest of the sick continue to arrive via EMS and take up what few precious beds remain open in our departments, which are almost always at capacity. Some of the very sick leave the waiting room out of sheer exhaustion; perhaps it's best to suffer in your own bed rather than a stiff chair with someone #coughing, #hallucinating, or #screaming next to you. A few of those who leave simply die at home because their illnesses were not immediately manifest to the harried triage staff.