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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

billion in 2001 to $18.3 Home health aides – also known as HHA , (who I’ve named as the home health angels) who works very very closely with the patient to complete their ADLs, demonstrate tasks, and so much more. Not to mention that Medicare’s expenditures for home health care nearly doubled from $9.7 billion in 2012.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

” You can look back to an ACP paper in 2001 saying that the only way geriatrics survive is that we have to do this, and this doesn’t feel like a new conversation. She was actually the one who wrote the 2001 or 2004 ACP article, which also there was a series of articles lamenting there won’t be enough geriatricians.