Together for Short Lives

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This morning, BBC News published a hugely important article, showing how many families across the country caring for severely disabled children cannot access the continuing care they qualify for because of where they live.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

MARCH 24, 2024

The post Our Certified Caregiving Consultants in the News first appeared on The Caregiving Years Training Academy. We regularly share media opportunities through our community, CaringOurWay.com. Join us to get notifications and to join us for all our special events, initiatives and programs.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023 during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice News: We’re going to talk about how you can keep your high valued clinicians from becoming full-time note takers. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. To learn more visit: www.nvoq.com.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 13, 2023

The post Nursing Salaries Trend Higher: The News Is Good, but Minorities Still Struggle first appeared on Minority Nurse. That is starting to change, but we’re still not fully there.” Sign up now to get your free digital subscription to Minority Nurse.

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The World According to Dr. El

APRIL 19, 2022

I have to admit that when I saw the news headline last week, “ BREAKING: CMS cuts SNF pay rates by net $320 million ,” I felt a kick-’em-while-they’re-down discouragement. As a psychologist, I’m also mindful of the emotional impact of these news stories. To contact her for speaking engagements, visit her at EleanorFeldmanBarbera.com.

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Comforcare Home Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Comforcare Home Care provides complete advanced dementia care training through our DementiaWise program to ensure tip quality in-home services. Comforcare has engaged independent research by Duke University Occupational Therapy Division and Partnerships for Health to better understand the program's effectiveness.

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The Chaplain's Report

JULY 2, 2023

I thought I’d keep the site active and update folks on my writing and some other significant news. Hi everyone! First, writing has proven to be quite a challenge. I’ve never been the most disciplined writer, or most disciplined anything for that matter, so writing tends to come in fits and starts when I have time.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

At the crux is a lack of awareness of these state-funded programs, Fields said at Hospice News’ Palliative Care News Conference in Tampa, Florida. The utilization challenges are real, and that means we have to go and teach beneficiaries with serious illness that these services are covered,” Fields told Palliative Care News.

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Comforcare Home Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Published in Neuroscience news, December 5, 2022. A new blood test can detect toxic amyloid beta oligomers associated with Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms appear. A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has developed a laboratory test that can measure levels of amyloid beta oligomers in blood samples.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Creutzfeldt at the Harborview Medical Center’s Department of Neurology told Palliative Care News. Dr. Farrah Daly, owner and founder of Evenbeam Neuropalliative Care LLC, told Palliative Care News that the current demand for neuropalliative care is “just the tip of the iceberg.” “So

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

We offer an alternative to dying alone on the street,” Deja said in a statement shared with Hospice News. The main goal is that the most vulnerable people in our community are able to be served as they prepare for the end of their lives,” Smith told Hospice News. It’s] identifying the different populations and care gaps that exist.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Palliative care delivery trends are increasingly taking root in inpatient and community-based settings across the continuum, Gina Andres, senior director of hospice and palliative care at Kaiser Permanente, said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Tampa, Florida.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

Through palliative integration, these providers can make their care models more patient-centered, Alex Binder, vice president of Parker Advance Care said at the Hospice News/Palliative Care News Palliative Care Conference in Tampa, Florida. “I just assumed that’s what medicine was.fI

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Daily Nurse

JULY 22, 2022

If this was 1950, parents all over the state would be losing sleep over this week’s polio infection in New York’s Rockland County. In New York City alone, 2400 people died of the […]. The poliomyelitis epidemic that hit the state in June-October 1916 killed 6000 during those six months and left some 24,000 people paralyzed.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Some of the regulations do not include the medical director of the hospice, physician designee if the medical director is not available, or the physician member of the hospice interdisciplinary group as the allowed certifying physicians,” Wehri told Hospice News in an email. But the potential confusion didn’t stop there.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

At medical schools and medical institutions, we kept hearing the same thing over and over again: ‘I’m so bad at self care,’” Ellison told Palliative Care News. The post The Emergence of Contemplative Medicine in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News. Everyone feels isolated. People felt disconnected.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

They’re not hospice appropriate, maybe they won’t be for many years, but they have symptoms that they need help managing,” Kirsti Krejs, executive director of Integrity Care Partners, told Palliative Care News. So these are folks who are ending up in the emergency room in the middle of the night. “One

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2024

“From my perspective, we recognize the importance of technology as an organizational imperative if you’re going to be in a modern health care world,” Brunnick told Hospice News. “We’re Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)],” Wes Little, chief analytics officer and general manager for WellSky, told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

Palliative care has a lot to do with the core naturopathic principles and dovetails so well with it,” Luepker told Palliative Care News. The post Naturopath’s Potential in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News. The Oregon-based practice utilizes psychedelic-assisted therapies to help address terminally ill patients’ symptoms.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Carelon Health serves an average of 15,000 to 20,000 patients across 40 states through its palliative care program, Campbell said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Tampa, Florida. Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this?

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

So their program is not just a palliative care program, it’s meant to also kind of continue that care,” Dolan told Palliative Care News. “We The post Sierra Community Care, Mettle Health Partner on Guiding Palliative Care, Hospice Decision-Making appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

The decision to start a palliative care program was daunting, so community support was invaluable, Viv Tipton, executive director of Hospice of the Foothills, told Palliative Care News. The post Sierra Community Palliative Care Reaps Rewards of Dignity Health Collaboration appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

Doulas have a lot of various skill sets they can bring to the table,” Sullivan told Hospice News. I’ve seen many things that occurred in the Department of Corrections that still haunt me today within the hospice setting and the way that people were treated,” Flotow told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 2, 2024

Creutzfeldt, Department of Neurology, Harborview Medical Center, previously told Palliative Care News. The post Dana-Farber’s New Push to Integrate Palliative, Behavioral Services in Cancer Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

[In the HOPE tool] the majority of the questions are nurse focused, so they’ll have to look at how they’re staffing their nurses in terms of the initial visits and doing the hospice update visits and making sure that their nurses can complete everything in a timely manner,” Barnett told Hospice News. “It’s

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

The dialysis is making them more comfortable,” Mollie Gurian, vice president of home-based and HCBS public policy for LeadingAge, told Hospice News. “We’re Only a fraction of dialysis patients receive specialized palliative care that can effectively target their issues, a 2021 Kaiser Health News report indicated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

They think I’m taking care of a patient in this discreet encounter,” Genovesi told Hospice News. The post The Benefits of Deploying Palliative Care Social Workers in Hospital Emergency Departments appeared first on Hospice News. It helps them feel less helpless.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“We can’t just go out to nurses and say, ‘I’ll bump [your pay] a buck an hour,’” English told Hospice News’ sister publication Home Health Care News. “I Merz Photography / Hospice News Merz Photography / Hospice News Bill English, president and CEO, Accurate Home Care at the CONTINUUM Conference.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Physician offices were identified among the most significant referral growth opportunities in 2024 by about 6% of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase. Hospice News Hospice News 2024 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report. Created in partnership with Homecare Homebase.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

Bill Logan, national medical director and chief medical officer for Carelon Health, a subsidiary of Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV), said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Tampa, Florida. Unfortunately, that gives you a genotype of that individual, but it doesn’t give you their phenotype,” Logan told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Pathways, and its center, was among the recipients of this year’s Architecture & Design Awards by Hospice News’ sister site Senior Housing News. But the true impact is what happens at the bedside and the care that’s provided,” Bowen told Hospice News. “It It’s an incredibly well designed, well-functioning layout.

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For a variety of unfortunate reasons, some hospices found themselves facing a 4% rate reduction for non-compliance with either Hospice Item Set (HIS) or Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) requirements.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

Having competitive wages and benefits is a basic need for any employee or candidate looking to come onboard,” Marion said during the annual Hospice News Staffing Summit. It starts with proper onboarding and training your staff so they can function to the best of their abilities in the field,” Belloumini told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

After 2023’s slump, PE firms have been sitting on more than $800 million in dry powder, according to data shared with Hospice News by The Braff Group. The post M&A Volume May Shift From Hospice to Home Health appeared first on Hospice News. Higher interest rates could affect the value of future cash flows and exit valuations.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Hospice News Reporter Holly Vossel speaks with Carole Fisher, president of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), and Dr. Cameron Muir, chief innovation officer at NPHI, about the different ways hospices can shape their trauma-informed care delivery approaches. Listen to the episode and subscribe today!

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