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Hospices Leverage Technology to Improve Patient, Employee Satisfaction, Reduce Turnover 

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A 2009 study found that high levels of employee satisfaction correlates to more positive perceptions among families of the care their loved ones received. We have access to documentation that has nothing to do with patient care and doesn’t promote communication between the team, it just just a lot of documentation,” Henry said. .’

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

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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. Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Appoints Medical Director.

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

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By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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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

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Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. 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. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today. Alex: We have some wonderful guests.

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