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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

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization. One was very surprising.