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✨ Highlights from the 6th Annual International Patient Experience Symposium Preconference Masterclasses! Prof. Simon Conroy, Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine at University College London (UCL), and Deborah Thompson, Programme Director: Urgent Care Delivery Networks at NHS Elect, facilitated a dynamic workshop on "Enhancing Emergency Care for Older Adults: Strategies for Optimal ECOP." In this insightful workshop, they shared essential learning objectives: 🧬 Understanding age-related physiological changes impacting emergency care 📝 Implementing evidence-based strategies for geriatric assessment in emergencies 🤝 Applying interdisciplinary approaches for managing complex geriatric cases 🗣️ Enhancing communication techniques for effective interaction with older patients 🔄 Developing protocols for optimizing transitions of care for elderly patients post-emergency Their expertise and collaborative approach provided invaluable strategies for improving emergency care for older adults. #PatientExperience #GeriatricCare #EmergencyCare #HealthcareInnovation #MedicalSymposium #GeriatricAssessment #ElderlyCare

NURS FPX 4900 Assessment 4 at Capella University involves developing a comprehensive solution for a health problem affecting a patient, family, or population. This assessment requires creating an intervention based on data and evidence-based practices, addressing aspects such as leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, policy, quality of care, patient safety, and costs. The goal is to improve care quality and safety while reducing system costs by leveraging technology, care coordination, and community resources. https://lnkd.in/e76JdgwJ

What does it mean to be age-friendly? The PHMO team is leading the movement to ensure that all Duke hospitals are following the IHI's 4Ms model of Age-Friendly Health System. Check out this article from NC Health News featuring Drs. Heidi White, PHMO Medical Director for Geriatric Medicine, and Kimberly Smashe, Manager for DukeWELL Geriatrics & Care Transitions, discussing the 4Ms approach at Duke Health.

Juniper Advisory delves into the impact of hospital consolidation on access to care, offering new insights into the debate over local control versus system affiliation. Jordan Shields, Partner, examines how joining larger health systems affects access and complexity of care. Amid concerns that consolidation might reduce local services, the article reveals that compared to standalone hospitals, organizations that join larger systems provide enhanced access to both community services, like obstetrics, and tertiary services. This analysis challenges prevailing assumptions and highlights the benefits of system affiliations for community hospitals. Band-Aid Station or Tertiary Center? The Impact of Consolidation on Community Hospital Services Read Here>>> https://lnkd.in/gYDs4sxA September E-Briefings>>> https://lnkd.in/gQP_ZsCg Juniper Advisory has partnered with The Governance Institute on this article. #HospitalConsolidation #CommunityHospitals #HealthcareAccess #HealthSystems #CaseMixIndex #RuralHealthcare #HealthcareDelivery #PatientCare #HealthPolicy #HospitalServices 

Creating actionable solutions to break down the barriers that contribute to health inequities is what social medicine is all about. Our multidisciplinary team at University Health Network Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine is at the forefront of these emerging strategies. https://lnkd.in/gmkemgyd

This week's #WednesdayWisdom article explores the idea of specialized ERs and medical staff, which could be helpful in reducing the amount of misdiagnosis among geriatric patients. Could this sort of specialization be the way of the future? #HealthyAging #Healthcare

💥 Only two weeks are left until the 3 Days in Palliative Care #MacCPD conference on June 17–19 at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington! Earn up to 17 Mainpro+ & 17 MOC Section 1 by attending. Target Audience Health Care Professionals including Physicians, Nurses, Spiritual Care Providers, Social Workers and other disciplines who are providing a palliative approach to care within various settings such as Primary Care, Long Term Care, Acute Care, Home Care, and Hospice. Learning Objectives By attending this learning activity, participants will be able to: 🔥 Manage complex physical, emotional, ethical and social issues, including pediatric to geriatric populations. 🔥 Develop enhanced collaborative practice skills and forge new inter-professional relationships. 🔥 Apply a palliative care approach in life-limiting illnesses, including cancer, cardiac, renal, respiratory, dementia, and other neurological disorders. View the agenda, speakers, and register https://lnkd.in/gza4-a4f #3daysinpalliative

The high prevalence of frailty and discapacity in emergency care indicates the need to accordingly configure healthcare systems and plan workforces. This study from the European Taskforce in Geriatric Emergency Medicine, in which I had the pleasure to participate as a site coordinator, shows the windows of opportunity for system configuration and workforce planning to focus on the patient from an integrated point of view. https://lnkd.in/e2dj8ttm

The Guardian: NHS faces ‘tipping point’ in England where most appointments will not be with GPs "Rapidly falling number of family doctors will harm ‘continuity and quality’ of care according to new research. That is the conclusion of an extensive piece of new research that also shows one in five surgeries has shut and the number of patients each family doctor looks after has soared over the last decade. Falling GP numbers delivering the same number of appointments per 1,000 patients seems unsustainable,” warn the researchers from University College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)." https://lnkd.in/e3DkzZd4 #pwME #MECFS #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #LongCovid #PostCovid #Comorbidities #GPs #PrimaryCare

Plan 5 min to read the stories in this article. Powerful! Sad! Maddening! Motivating! Feel the realities of the primary care crisis from real family physicians and real people struggling to get access care and the tolls faced by both. We must do better. How can we mobilize a collective to implement an organized strategy for change? See www.TeamPrimaryCare.ca that tried to make a start but lacked system willingness to support a sustainable structure with resources to escalate its work. Soldiers continue in the background to fight. Jerry Maniate Stella Ng Isabelle Gaboury Christie Newton Sue Sadler Deena M. Rachelle Ashcroft Maxime Lê and so many more (add your names if willing) https://lnkd.in/gNXsGXYJ