Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Also in 2020 came the launch of partnership between Livio Health and cancer care provider Minnesota Oncology. The Nashville-headquartered organization recently secured a $60 million funding round to expand its health services for cancer patients, including palliative care and programs to address social determinants.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The funding round will allow Thyme Care to deepen its partnerships with health care providers across the continuum and widen its geographic reach, according to Dr. Samyukta Mullangi, the company’s medical director. A group of health care professionals with experience in the oncology field started the company, Mullangi indicated.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Offering palliative care in an emergency setting is valuable to both immediate and long-term patient outcomes, according to Dr. David Curley, medical director of The Miriam Hospital’s emergency department. “A A visit to an emergency department can be one of the most vulnerable times of a person’s life,” Curley said in an announcement.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

The technology has the potential to drive change throughout the health care system, according to a 2020 report from Milliman. Whereas the median length declined slightly to 17 days, down from 18 in 2020. Nationwide, the average hospice length of stay fell by nearly five days in 2021 to 92.1,

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

In 2020, Oregon essentially decriminalized the personal use of a number of drugs that remain illegal at the federal level. Steinberg is also CEO of California-based Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc. and serves on the national advisory board for the California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

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. Darrell: Thank you.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There can be long hours, higher caseloads, patient/caregiver heightened emotions that lead to higher levels of stress than in other medical care settings.” The panel included Rana McClelland, president and CEO; Jayne O’Brien; vice president of patient services; Arlene Coffman, director of clinical services; Dr. Hanh T.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Awareness of even the basic tools to address some of this will greatly empower our medical community.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center and later joined NYC Health + Hospitals Corp. Prior to Calvary Hospital, he was COO at the Jacobi Medical Center. He joined the health system as medical director 24 years ago. The nonprofit organization is affiliated with the Texas Medical Center in Houston.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2020 the company merged with Stratum Health, and earlier this year received a green light to expand services across three additional counties in the central region of the Sunshine State. She previously served as medical director at Suncoast Hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly wage hike, and medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%, the report indicated. The most recent available utilization data are from 2020, but the hospice community should be watching for updated numbers. Nurses saw average national salary increases of 5.95% in 2022.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

About the Authors: Lead author, Chad Kollas, MD, serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL. Epub 2020 Dec 21. 2020 Dec;35(Suppl3):964-971. Epub 2020 Nov 6. Sullivan MD, Ballantyne JC. Ann Fam Med. 2021 Jan-Feb;19(1):79-82. N Engl J Med.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

This is up from 1,700 patients in three states in 2020. Lightways plans to continue developing its services by hiring a full-time pediatric medical director to foster a culture that truly understands palliative care for children. “We’re We don’t want them to think they have to stop everything in their lives and die.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

According to the CDC, close to 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women and about 2,100 in men each year, and Courtney Shihabuddin DNP, APRN-CNP, was one of those women in 2020. Shihabuddin was diagnosed with breast cancer on February 13, 2020. Talk about being diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2020.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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Hope Hospice

MAY 15, 2020

For immediate release: May 11, 2020. Panelists: Jatinder Marwaha, MD, FACP, HMCD, Hope Hospice Medical Director. Kuljeet Multani, MD, HMCD, Hope Hospice Associate Medical Director. Hope Hospice Media Contact: Kendra Strey , cell) 925-997-0873. Jennifer Hansen, Hope Hospice CEO. Wednesday, May 27, 5–6 p.m.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The most visible attempt began in 2020 when CMS began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed some avenues to reimbursement for palliative care services through value-based payment programs and demonstrations.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Just a few months later, in April 2020, PROP and Chou were again linked to an AHRQ-funded study examining the “effectiveness of opioids in treating chronic pain (51).” See [link] 12.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? ” 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? From a medical director standpoint, how do you think about that?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. Eric: So can I ask also, Stephanie, you did this survey fall of 2020. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Kellie: Thank you so much.

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