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MA Beneficiaries More Likely than Fee-for-Service Patients to Enter Hospice from Community Setting

Hospice News

Since 2007, MA enrollment has risen 337%, a recent study in Health Affairs found. Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are more likely to enroll in hospice from a community setting than patients in traditional fee-for-service programs.

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Bristol Hospice Appoints Alex Mauricio as New CEO

Hospice News

Last year, Troy Backus became Bristol’s VP of mergers and acquisitions last October, after serving as the company’s vice president of business development since 2007. Alex Mauricio, president and chief strategy officer for Bristol Hospice, has taken the helm as CEO.

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Creating an Advance Care Plan Series with The Conversation Project, Episode 4

The Heart of Hospice

According to The Conversation Project website (theconversationproject.org), Kate “has worked at The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) since 2007. Kate Debartolo of The Conversation Project is talking with us about advance care planning, and how to talk about what matters most to you. She currently leads The Conversation Project team and operations.

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Hospice Workers ‘Crave’ Safety, Connection, Efficiency 

Hospice News

In 2007, 27,400 recorded injuries occurred among close to 900,000 workers providing health care in the home setting, according to the National Institutes for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). .

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Transitions Care CEO: Hospice Marketing Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum

Hospice News

Palazzo established Illinois-based Transitions Care in 2007 as a portfolio company of the Transitions Group — which also holds skilled nursing, home health, medical equipment and therapy assets. When marketing his hospice business, Transitions Care CEO Jim Palazzo makes it personal.

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Lifelong Learners: Michelle Farley

Chicago Caregiving

To help her in that work, she earned two associates degrees in building construction technology and building code enforcement, and by 2007, she had earned a bachelor’s degree focused in construction management at DePaul University. Michelle Farley .

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Understanding Policymakers’ Frame of Reference Crucial to Hospice, Palliative Care Advocacy

Hospice News

In 2007, Olajide established the tech firm Axxess with a mind toward improving the efficiency of health care delivery to allow providers to devote more time and resources to their interactions with patients. Axxess founder and CEO John Olajide discovered a passion for both business and technology at an early age, and in time, saw opportunities to leverage those interests to help modernize health care.

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Four Generations of the Nursing Workforce

Daily Nurse

The first generation to have personal computers in the home from an early age, and to see the iPhone introduced in 2007, and technology has played a key role in their lives. Nursing is multigenerational, with four generations in the workforce at any given time.

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Writing to Remember

Chicago Caregiving

Nitsch and his wife, Mary, who he met on a city bus in New York, moved to Chicago in 2007. Gunter Nitsch documents his life as a refugee in post-war Europe.

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Inspiration from Marion Woodman

Elaine Mansfield

with Marion in 2007. “DO April 18, 2009. Dearest Elaine, …Ross (86, Marion’s husband) and I (80) laugh many times with our faulty hearing…. Tears and laughter are now two sides of one feeling. I love every workshop, but I’m finding my energy not up to it—not quite.

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When I Hear The Word “Hospice”

1-800-HOSPICE

2007 Mar 1;33(3):238-46. There are certain words in health care that no one wants to hear. Hospice shouldn’t be one of them. When people hear the word ‘hospice’, they generally know it has something to with end-of-life care? But what is hospice really?

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. Summary Transcript Summary.

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October Heroes of The Month

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

Born in the Philippines, Joe has been a Freedom Home Care caregiver since 2007. We’re honoring more amazing Heroes of the Month this October. These caregivers have shown us all what dedication and compassion look like. They really care for their clients and what they do!

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Considering Hospice: Starting the Conversation

1-800-HOSPICE

2007 Mar; 33(3): 238-46. Clinicians face multiple barriers to having a hospice conversation with patients. Among those barriers are time constraints and the potential for upsetting the minority of patients who do not want to know their prognosis.

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Hospice care in the United States

Americare Hospice

In 2007, hospice treatment was used by 1.4 Hospice care in the United States is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual or social in nature.

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Enhabit CEO Jacobsmeyer: We’re Bringing Hospice, Home Health to Broader Market

Hospice News

Jacobsmeyer joined Encompass in 2007 as central region president. Barbara Jacobsmeyer as of July 1 became the first CEO of Enhabit Home Health and Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) as an independent, standalone company.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Latanya Weston

Minority Nurse

So, in 2007, I again shifted my career and decided to leave my hometown for a hospital away from home. For 15 years, Latanya Weston was in operating rooms in her home state of Georgia, amputating the limbs of patients who suffered from kidney disease.

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Trailblazers in Nursing History: Chinese-American Nurse Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo, RN (Part One)

Minority Nurse

” (Macfie, 2007, p.1).

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Happy Canada Day to Our Home Healthcare Community!

AlayaCare

In early 2007, all provincial and territorial health ministers had taken steps toward fulfilling that commitment. This first long weekend of the summer reminds us of road trips, fireworks, barbecues, swimming and the existence of sunscreen in our cupboards – because we finally need some after quite the lengthy winter (and spring!) in many parts of the country.

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Celebrating Black Nursing Leaders: Patrice Little

Minority Nurse

So I went back and did that accelerated program, started in August 2006, and graduated in December 2007.

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How Much Does Hospice Reduce Direct Healthcare Spending by Families?

1-800-HOSPICE

2007 Oct 1;65(7):1466-78. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published a first-of-its kind study quantifying the healthcare cost reductions families realize after choosing hospice.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Summary Transcript Summary. You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. She falls and breaks her hip.

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On the Value of Social Work in Palliative Care

Pallimed

This adds to what we already knew: involvement of social work impacts quality of care and patient satisfaction (Auerbach, 2007; O’Donnell et al., 2007). by Vickie Leff ( @VickieLeff ) Another year, another study proving the value of the palliative care social worker.

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Opioids May Improve Survival for Hospice Patients

1-800-HOSPICE

2007 Mar; 33(3): 238-46. It is well established that hospice correlates with survival improved by days to months among the subset of patients who meet admission criteria. 1-12 Of course, the goal of hospice is neither to shorten nor prolong life.

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Nurses With DNP Degree Are Sorely Needed in Health Care and Education

Nurse.com

increased from about 50 in 2007 to about 357 in 2019, with an additional 106 post-baccalaureate and post-master’s degree DNP programs being planned, according to the AACN Fact Sheet. Content courtesy of Baylor University.

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Why Do Most People Receive Less Time in Hospice than Recommended?

1-800-HOSPICE

2007; 34: 120-125. Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. Expert consensus holds that people should receive hospice for three to six months.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

Olympia, WA: Washington State Agency Medical Directors’ Group; March 2007. by by Chad D.

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Say No! More - A Video Game Review

Pallimed

2007). by Matthew Tyler ( @pallidad ) Consider the last time you said “Yes” to something when you would have preferred to have said “No.” Maybe you worried saying “No” would damage a relationship. Or maybe you didn’t want to put your job at risk. In Studio Fizbin’s Say No!

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What Does Hospice Use Look Like in America Today?

1-800-HOSPICE

2007; 34: 120-125. While the roots of hospice date back centuries , the American hospice industry began in full in 1982 when the federal government launched the first Medicare benefit for hospice. Over time, the diversity of diagnoses seen in hospice has grown steadily. On the other hand, utilization of available services at recommended levels has waxed and waned. What does hospice use look like in America today? Why Talk About Length of Stay in Hospice?

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) published its “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (8),” which was updated in 2010 and 2015 (11). Olympia, WA: Washington State Agency Medical Directors’ Group; March 2007. by Chad D.

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How to Stop Cyberbullying in the Workplace

Healthy Workforce Institute

According to a 2010 & 2007 U.S. If you’ve ever received a hostile e-mail from someone at work or had nasty things written about you by a co-worker online, you know what it’s like to be a target of cyberbullying in the workplace.

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Home Funerals Are Here to Stay

Journey With Deanna

In 2007 I discovered home funerals and it took my breath away. It was shocking, but it was so beautiful a concept too. How do you do it? Why would you do it? It demands an exploration once you find out about them and deserves to be considered. There are some confusions about it, for instance, many people equate funeral with burial but they are not the same thing. There is the home funeral (honoring the dead) and there is the home burial (interment).

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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Just to give you an idea of the volume involved, In 2007 there were 9,024 Medicare home health agencies , and by 2017 that number had increased to 11, 593 agencies. This is great, you have your home health nursing orientation and preceptor time all next week…. Killin’ it!

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

GeriPal

It’s like 2007 or something. Summary Transcript Summary. My mom is an Asian woman in her 70s with osteoporosis. She tried an oral bisphosphonate and had horrible esophagitis. She said never again, though she eventually tried an IV bisphosphonate. She had terrible flu-like symptoms.