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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

Hospice News

She began as a nurse at the hospice in 2010, and started her career at Berkeley Medical Center in 2008 as a primary nurse and charge nurse in the progressive care unit. She has more than 26 years of nursing experience, working in surgical and cardiac intensive care units in hospital settings for a decade before turning to hospice.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

Hospice News

Home-based care providers are able to leverage their experience with community-based care and reach a larger patient population, with palliative care appearing as a key feature of many of these partnerships.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

The good news is that the financial case for comprehensive dementia care is changing thanks to a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) alternative payment model (APM) called Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model. So since 2008, we’ve been providing the service using our foundation money.

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