Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Stephen Goldfine, chief medical officer at Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services. Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice launched its palliative care service line in 2007, mainly providing these services in hospital-based settings.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right. Lynn: All right.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and a T-32 research fellow in UCSF’s Division of Geriatrics. He’s a Geriatrician Palliative Care Clinician Researcher, also in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. I guess my question, too, is I’m caring for hospice patients right now.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. And part of that job, they were looking for somebody to be a medical person in the local hospice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Samir: Yeah.

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