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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Bailey Woodhams, Maxwell Healthcare Associates

Hospice News

Bailey Woodhams, business development manager for consulting firm Maxwell Healthcare Associates, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Recovery Mobile Clinic Reinvents Community Healthcare

Daily Nurse

But then, in the suboxone clinic, we started seeing the barriers that healthcare has. We would lose around 30% of our patients to follow-ups due to transportation barriers. Nurses do their best in a community setting or when we’re engaging with patients directly, educating, treating, preventing, and helping patients.

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Empathy in Healthcare

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

The ability to empathize is especially important in healthcare professions where biases can contribute to healthcare disparities. Healthcare providers must be able to better recognize situations where they can offer empathy in addition to problem solving. Patient care is more than just physical healing.

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Congress Grills HHS on Hospice Program Integrity

Hospice News

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. In some instances, multiple hospices have been operating out of the same address without a corresponding increase in the population of eligible patients.

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Building Mental Health Supports for Palliative Care Teams

Hospice News

The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. Alarming levels of burnout and low levels of well-being have been documented in health professionals across care settings.

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Regulators Taking Aim at Hospice PE Backers

Hospice News

About 30% to 50% of home health and hospice transactions in 2021 involved private equity, according to the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group. With this growing influence comes renewed scrutiny about their impact on patient care, federal policymakers have indicated. That ends on my watch,” Biden said. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

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For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director.

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