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

Hospice News

Egging will oversee operations of the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. She served as director of compliance for Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care from 2001 to 2009. This marks her return to the organization.

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Important Predictions for Home Care in 2019

AlayaCare

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. in 2009 to 65.7%

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Ep. 27 - Racial and Cultural Competence in Palliative Care

HPNA podcast

About Amisha: Amisha Parekh de Campos, PhD, MPH, RN, CHPN has a joint appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing, and Quality and Education Coordinator of the Middlesex Health Hospice Program, Middletown, CT. Joseph in 2009; additional certifications include hospice and palliative care (CHPN).

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Geriatric Nursing: A Specialty in Need

Nurse.com

population ages, geriatric nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) can make an impact. The need for geriatric nurses can be explained simply by looking at data highlighting an aging United States. Geriatric nurses are critical to our healthcare workforce.”. As the U.S. As the growth of the U.S. Attention for geriatrics.

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Top Lawmakers for Hospices to Watch in 2024

Hospice News

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). He also wrote some sections of the Affordable Care Act.

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

Hospice News

For more than 40 years, Community Hospice has grown from an inspired idea by two registered nurses to a respected and leading provider of vital service for those with serious and life-limiting illness in the Central Valley area. The care is pretty unique for those people younger than 18. and Salt Lake City, Utah. “The

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

GeriPal

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Ruth: Thank you.