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Sangre de Cristo Taps New CEO, YoloCares Names Palliative Care Director

Hospice News

She served as director of compliance for Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care from 2001 to 2009. Egging has served as president of The Denver Hospice since 2009, where she led health information management, quality and compliance departments.

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CommuniCare Health Services Acquires Transitional Care Company Stonerise

Hospice News

The company was established in 2009. Ohio-headquartered CommuniCare Health Services recently acquired hospice and home health provider Stonerise, expanding the company’s reach in its home state as well as West Virginia.

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Care Synergy Becomes National Center for Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

Hospice News

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing launched CAPABLE in 2009 and since then has overseen the program nationally. CAPABLE began with a 2009 pilot at a Johns Hopkins site in Baltimore and since has expanded to more than 40 locations in 21 states.

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Court Dismisses SouthernCare Fraud Allegations, Proceeds with Whistleblower Retaliation Complaint

Hospice News

Most of the alleged fraudulent activity in the 2018 and 2009 cases occurred prior to Curo’s ownership. The Southern District Court of Mississippi granted hospice provider SouthernCare Inc.’s s motion to dismiss a whistleblower’s False Claims Act complaint.

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Hospices Increasingly Invest in Environmental Sustainability

Hospice News

In another example, Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve began its sustainability journey in 2009 by forming an internal team dedicated to creating and implementing better environmental practices.

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Inspiration from Marion Woodman

Elaine Mansfield

April 18, 2009. The hearing issues you shared in 2009 remind me of my challenges now. 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.

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Deathwives Founders: Death Doulas Fill End-of-Life Care Gaps, Ease Strain on Hospice Staff

Hospice News

Merelli: I got into doulaship as a birth doula in 2009. More people are stepping into death doula work, according to founders of the Colorado-based organization Deathwives.

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Lessons and Legacies From Some We Lost in 2022

Solace

President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

1-800-HOSPICE

2009; 3 (6): 597-605. Sometimes, we are put into a difficult position of communicating information that involves bad news such as, a poor prognosis or clarifying treatment goals to a family member with an advanced illness.

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Seasoned Senior Industry Professional Becomes New Owner of Always Best Care Wake Forest-north Raleigh

Always Best Care Senior Services

Always Best Care of Wake Forest-North Raleigh has been serving Wake County residents since 2009 and is one of nine Always Best Care agencies across North Carolina.

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From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

Hospice News

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a law to develop its advisory council in 2009. Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009.

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This Could Be You: Cullen Law Under Scrutiny

Nurse.com

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in February 2009 and has been updated with new content. A law bearing the namesake of former nurse and convicted serial killer, Charles Cullen, is good in its intent but harmful in its execution.

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

Hospice News

Mission Healthcare, a portfolio company of the private equity firm the Vistria Group, was founded in 2009 and provides care to roughly 5,000 patients daily across its home state in California, as well as in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

This long and sordid history of gabapentin and pregabalin is beautifully described in Seth Landefeld and Mike Steinman 2009 NEJM editorial. Summary Transcript Summary Gabapentin is the 10th most prescribed drug in the United States and use is increasing.

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Soul Animals

Elaine Mansfield

When I brought her home in 2009, her puppy sweetness brought joy after years of grief, but before she was six months old, she needed surgery on her left knee. Orange fritillary butterflies flutter beside the trail, dining on coneflower nectar and dew. The dogs run in front of me.

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Considering Hospice: Starting the Conversation

1-800-HOSPICE

2009 May 25: 169 (10): 954-9962. 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.

2023 52
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How Amazon’s $3.9 Billion One Medical Acquisition Could Disrupt Home-Based Care—For Better or Worse

Home Care Pulse

Let’s go back to 2009 and look at Quidsi, an online diaper company, and Amazon. In 2009, Quidsi was disrupting the baby supplies market by selling diapers online with overnight delivery. Article Contents: – Introduction. – What Advantages Does Amazon Hold Over Incumbents?

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Podcast 97: Revised Recommendations on Standards and Norms for Palliative Care in Europe from the European Association for Palliative Care: a Delphi study

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

The EAPC published recommendations on standards and norms in palliative care for Europe in 2009. The Delphi technique is a well recognised way to elicit the views of stakeholders and obtain consensus. There are a diversity of international and national definitions and concepts in palliative care which makes comparison between countries and delivery of health care complex.

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Always Best Care Named to Franchise Direct’s Top 100 Global Franchises Ranking for 2022

Always Best Care Senior Services

Franchise Direct has published its Top 100 Global Franchises Ranking every year since 2009, using multiple data points that include longevity, annual sales revenue, system size and growth over the past year.

2022 52
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Differences Between Grief and Depression

1-800-HOSPICE

2009 Jun;8(2):67-74. Sooner or later, most of us will suffer deep grief over the death of someone we love. Grieving is a natural process that is inherent in humans.

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How do Patient Navigators Contribute to Equitable, Quality and Culturally Appropriate Health Care?

Minority Nurse

In January 2009, the Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) staged the grand opening of the Refugee Women’s Health Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona with Dr. Crista Johnson, MD, FACOG as the founding 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

Pallimed

Harms from the Workmen’s Compensation Program and AMDG Pain Guidelines The harms from the AMDG Pain Guidelines as applied to Washington’s Workers’ Compensation and Medicaid programs had become evident by 2009. 2009 Mar;10(2):285-6. Epub 2009 Jan 16. 2009 Sep-Oct;12(5):819-50.

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Geriatric Nursing: A Specialty in Need

Nurse.com

From 2009 to 2019, the population of adults age 65 and older grew 36% to more than 54 million Americans, according to the Administration for Community Living (ACL) — a division of the U.S. As the U.S. population ages, geriatric nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) can make an impact.

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

Pallimed

by by Chad D.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. Summary Transcript Summary.

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"The Death Monologues." A Talk with Giselle Suarez.

Journey With Deanna

In 2009, her mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she spent nine months assisting her on her death journey. This one woman show is written and performed by Giselle Suarez. Giselle graduated from the Royal Theatre Arts Academy in Utrecht in the Netherlands. She went on to perform in classic and original works, throughout the European professional theatre circuit.

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How Hospice Supports Families

1-800-HOSPICE

New York: Springer 2009: 135-155. More and more people are choosing to die at home. Since the healthcare system first started keeping track of this in the 70s, most people died in hospitals.

2004 52
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Important Predictions for Home Care in 2019

AlayaCare

in 2009 to 65.7% As AlayaCare has grown, we’ve had the privilege of observing how health systems around the world are organizing to keep seniors and chronically or acutely ill patients receiving care and convalescing in their preferred setting: at home. Everywhere we look, home care is growing at double-digit percentages. A key driver: the fact that delivering care where clients/patients want to receive it just makes great economic sense.

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What the Pandemic Taught Us About the Changing Role of Nurses

Diversity Nursing

Differences in the delivery of health education to patients with chronic disease by provider type, 2005–2009. Even before the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it was well-known that the U.S. was facing a health care provider shortage.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. Summary Transcript Summary.

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The Role of Spiritual Care in Hospice

Hope Hospice

2009) Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality. At Hope Hospice, spiritual care is among the services we provide to patients, upon request. We serve patients and families from all walks of life and cultures.

2020 52
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The under reporting of recruitment strategies in research with children with life-threatening illnesses: A systematic review

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

The study was a systematic of (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) research published between 2009 and 2014, recruiting children and young people with life-limiting conditions or life-threatening illness and their families.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. Summary Transcript Summary.

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These Nursing Associations Connect You to Fellow Pros and Valuable Resources

Nurse.com

Created in 2009, the IHCNO aims to support the nurses who provide care to patients who remain in their homes. NNU was founded in 2009 unifying three of the most active, progressive organizations in the U.S.—and

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Ep.2: The Truth About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—And What Agencies Should Be Doing Differently

Home Care Pulse

And I think the thing that really ship the things for me is when in 2009, I had the opportunity to join a Home Care national home care agency. Ep.2: