Pallimed
JULY 11, 2022
Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty! Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. Spread the word! We have just entered our teenage years.
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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1-800-HOSPICE
MARCH 28, 2023
The Optimism of Hospice Care Hospice care can give patients hope. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2008; 26: 5988-5993. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2008; 300 (14): 1665-73. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2003; 51 (10): 1398-1403. Daugherty C, Hubocky F.
1-800-HOSPICE
MARCH 21, 2023
The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care. 1 As such, hospice utilization among patients with hematologic malignancies merits scrutiny as an area where hospice utilization is traditionally lower than with solid malignancies. Overall, only 41.6%
1-800-HOSPICE
JANUARY 18, 2022
Hospice Supports Families as Well as Patients. Fortunately, as America has begun going home to die with higher quality of life at ever increasing rates, the hospice industry has also grown to support that. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Caregiver Education in Hospice.
High Peaks Hospice
MARCH 1, 2022
High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. He spent the summer side by side with Dr. Weissman going on hospice visits, assisting with curriculum, and more. The move to upstate NY and joining High Peaks Hospice.
GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. So this is 2008 when they were running this study, I’m like why did the heck did they choose buprenorphine?
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