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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

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Mag brings a level of thought leadership and innovation that will further enhance our reputation of excellence in patient care.”. Florida-based Trustbridge has named Dr. Katherine Brazzale as its new chief medical officer of hospice services. Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Appoints Medical Director.

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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

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Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). About the Authors Lead author, Chad Kollas , serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL.

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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. If you do good quality patient care, I believe the other naturally follows. Joan Tino’s Group a month ago published a great study looking at care or caregiver, primary caregiver survey data.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Kellie: Thank you so much. Great to be here. Welcome back, Stephanie. Stephanie: Thank you.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. It’s been a little while since I did direct patient care.