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C-Suite Shakeups at Aveanna, New Day, Samaritan, VNAHSR

Hospice News

Pagliaro joined the organization in 2012 as a hospice and palliative physician, ascending into roles such as associate director of palliative medicine and vice president of medical services. Pagliaro is also medical director of palliative medicine at Jefferson Health East and serves on its ethics and cancer committees.

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Meet Nancy Colobong Smith, American Nephrology Nurses Association’s President-Elect 2023-24

Minority Nurse

Some days I am in meetings about developing care pathways with transplant surgery, updating the electronic medical record, discussing supply chain new equipment, or in a patient plan of care conference. With any system or product that impacts kidney care, the medical director, dialysis operations manager, and I are involved.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. This is not even best practices, this is min specs drawn from the hospice medical director manual and our conditions of participation, Medicare conditions of participation, that’s all. Joe, what are your thoughts on that?

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