Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director Agape Care Group, a portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners has appointed Kari Bradford, a doctor of nursing practice, as its new palliative medical director. Patel is fellowship trained in geriatric medicine with an emphasis on palliative and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wu added that with only 10 members, the palliative care team is “small but mighty” and includes physicians, a nurse practitioner, a nurse social worker, a pharmacist, a chaplain and an administrator.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Physicians in training need greater exposure to geriatric training in order to better grasp the needs of older patients, including during transitions to hospice, according to Dr. Julia Lowenthal, a geriatrician from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

The company employs nurse practitioners and other clinicians to provide palliative care in the home. At the same time, PalliCare helps nurse practitioners interested in setting up their own palliative care practices. We’re growing pretty exponentially right now, especially in skilled facilities like nursing homes and such.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many incarcerated seniors who could benefit from palliative care do not receive adequate access or referrals to these services, according to Katherine Supiano, associate professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. The prison system was never designed to become a nursing home or hospice, but it has become one.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics. Rates of depression rose up to 40% of these individuals within four years prior to death, with frequent or severe social isolation and loneliness reported among up to nearly a quarter (22%).

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Strains on reimbursement, referrals and staffing represent the biggest obstacles to palliative care providers’ viability and growth. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Furthermore, nearly half (49.4%) indicated they had never met with a palliative care physician or nurse (58.4%) as part of their overall cancer care experience. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated. An estimated 1.9

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

Others include a geriatric home-based primary care medical group called Welcome Health; Housecall Providers, an in-home primary and palliative care business; and the PACE program MyPlace Health, a joint venture between SCAN and Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA). This included what he called a clinical-first palliative care model. SCAN is a $4.3

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. Ann: Thank you.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Though far more resources are needed, more opportunities for clinical palliative care training have been emerging in recent years, according to Dr. Nathan Goldstein, currently professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. But business trends are also driving change.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I made my way through the ranks as a CNA, then a registered nurse, and then a nurse practitioner and now, I’m in a leadership position. We know that Part B can be tough with that.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Determining when a patient with Alzheimer’s and dementia is eligible for hospice care can be challenging in the face of the six-month terminal prognosis, given the unpredictable nature of these diseases, according to Keisha Mason, director of nursing at Heart’n Soul Hospice. Brody is also a registered nurse in end-of-life care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Anne: Right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Summary Transcript Summary. This was in part due to the tremendous support of the National Institute on Aging. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Hsien, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Sammy: Thank you so much.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. Thanks for sharing.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

It was a weird time in the field because hospice was started primarily by nurses in the United States. Today we have the honor of interviewing Susan Block, MD, one of the pioneering leaders in the fields of palliative care, particularly psychosocial aspects of palliative care. Eric: So Susan, very big thank you for joining us on this podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks .

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care. We had two palliative care clinics.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Daniel Schwartz: It’s a pleasure to be here representing Elara Caring.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas. Currently, this includes only physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers. “If

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. Mitchell Schwartz, president of clinical enterprise and chief physician executive at Luminis Health. independent of the JV.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We’ve partnered with the UCSF Office of CME to offer for a small fee ($100) AMA PRA Category 1 credit for podcast episodes (which should work for most physicians, nurses, NPs, and PAs). appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. How will CME work for the podcast?

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. His work has been published in places like the L.A. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nathan.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The post GeriPal #HPMParty at the 2023 AAHPM / HPNA Meeting in Montreal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Also, if you have trainees coming to the meeting, make sure you send them the invite. The more, the merrier.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Wallace, C.L., In Donesky, D.,

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Barbara: Yay.

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

Hiring an in-home nurse can be a game-changer for family caregivers. Here’s what to know before hiring in-home nursing services. Being honest about what you’re willing to do is crucial for maintaining your well-being and determining the type of in-home nursing services needed.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans.

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