Rural Palliative Care: Karl Bezak, Jeanie Youngwerth, Adie Goldberg, and Gregg Vandekieft
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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast
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And on to the show. Welcome to the Jared Pal podcast. This is Eric Widero. This is Alex Smith. And Alex, we have a full house for a podcast on Rural Palliative Care.
Have a full house for rural palliative care. Jeannie Youngworth is our first guest. Guest. She is a palliative care doctor at the University of Colorado. Jeannie, welcome to the Jared Powell Podcast.
Excited to be here. Thank you.
We're delighted to welcome Adie Goldberg, who's a palliative care social worker and clinical coordinator of the Washington State Rural Palliative Care Initiative. Aidy, welcome to the Jerry Powell podcast.
And to be here.
And delighted to welcome Carl B. Bizak, who's a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC. Carl, welcome to Jerry Powell. Thanks for the invite. Glad to be here. And last but certainly not least, a dear friend from many meetings, go back a long way, Greg Vandekeept, who's a palliative care doc, works at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington, is medical director of the Washington State Rural Palliative Care Initiative. Greg, welcome to the Jerry Powell podcast.
Great to be here and I'm gonna share, Alex and Eric. I heard Sterling Hardjo being interviewed by Terry Gross and he said, You know, Terry, I always knew that I would have made it if I got to be interviewed by you. That's kind of how it feels being interviewed by the two of you. It feels like we made it.
Yeah. Yeah. No yeah, you don't need Terry Gross anymore. You you you're right. Yeah. Um uh okay. We had a lot of talk about rural palliative care, but before we do, we always start off with song requests. Greg, do you have the song request for Alex? Yeah, three dog
night out in the country.
Why
did you
choose this
song? Well, when I was thinking about the bleak e health economics landscape in rural communities, I first thought of John Mellencamp's Rain on the Scarecrow, but that's too depressing. I wanted something more uplifting and Three Dog Night was a big band in my childhood, so I thought Out in the Country by Three Dog Night. Wonderful.
Whenever I need to leave it all behind. Feel the need to get away. I find a quiet place far from the human race out in the country. Before the breathing air is gone, before the sun is just a bright spot in the night time Out where the rivers like to run, I stand alone and take back something worth remembering.
Wonderful song. Good choice, Greg. So All right, we are allowed to cover. I want to just start off personally, just briefly from each of you, kind of what motivated you to do work in rural communities, especially rural palliative care. Adie, I'm gonna start off with you. What got you to do this type of work?
Well, I had the opportunity to work in a s tertiary hospital in southwestern Oregon, and I watched patients come in from Northern California and Eastern Oregon and I watched these beautiful discharge plans get derailed within forty eight hours of patients going home.
Yeah.
And so I did my PhD dissertation on a seamless delivery of palliative care in rural Washington. Uh Oregon. Forget which state I'm in.
So
anyhow, y it just, you know, my heart's there. I went to college real close to where Greg grew up in a small town in Iowa and I my heart's in rural communities.
Yeah. Do you live in a rural community?
I live in Spokane, Washington, which people in Seattle would say is rural but
it's all relative, right?
Yeah. But No, but I have a cabin. So
Oh, you have a
cabin.
Yeah.
How about you, Jeannie?
I would say mine was by opportunity. It came uh across one day that some folks from rural Colorado reached out and wanted to collaborate. I love to do innovation. Um, I think I'm like most Coloradans where We love the mountains, we respect the mountains and uh anything that we can do to help our colleagues in that area and patients to access palliative care. So this just sounded uh it sounded exciting and fun and meaningful.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–13:18
2
What inspired each guest to focus on rural palliative care?
13:18–26:45
3
How does rural palliative care differ from urban models?
26:45–42:31
4
What are the biggest challenges delivering palliative care in resource‑limited rural settings?
42:31–47:29
Speakers
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