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AHA Adds Sleep to List of Heart Disease Health Factors

Daily Nurse

In 2010, the American Heart Association (AHA) defined “Life’s Simple 7TM,” the seven health behaviors and factors people can improve to help achieve optimal cardiovascular health.

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Angels Care Hospice Expands Services to Fill Regional Gaps

Hospice News

By extending its footprint, the company is helping to fill a gap left when Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, Texas, shuttered its hospice program in 2010.

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

Hospice News

At the same time, the ratio of potential caregivers to seriously ill seniors is expected to shrink to 4-to-1 by 2023, a “sharp decline” from 7-to-1 in 2010, AARP reported. In 2010, the U.S.

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Benefits of Volunteering for Seniors

Changing Lives Podcast

A report by Volunteer Canada revealed that Baby Boomers and Senior Adults provided more than 1 billion volunteer hours in 2010!

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Hospices Striking Back Against Cyberattacks

Hospice News

1, 2010 and March 9, 2023, according to HHS records. Hospices are seeking solutions to protect themselves and their patients against cybercrime. Data breaches can have widespread implications, including violations of patients’ privacy and substantial financial losses for providers.

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American Senior Communities Settles Hospice-Related FCA Case

Hospice News

Medicare between 2010 and 2019 paid a total $6.6 ????Skilled nursing company American Senior Communities (ASC) has settled a False Claims Act case for nearly $5.6 million following reports by hospice employees who cared for their residents. The U.S.

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HCA Healthcare Launches Hospice, Palliative Care Fellowship Program in Florida

Hospice News

of the state’s overall population in 2010, a jump from 9.9% Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc. NYSE: HCA) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) recently added a new graduate fellowship in hospice and palliative care medicine to their existing repertoire of training programs.

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How the U.S. Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support

Hospice News

In 2010, the U.S. Without family caregivers, many hospice patients would be unable to receive care in their homes.

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AlayaCare Announces Technology Integration with KabaFusion Holdings

AlayaCare

Leading provider of specialty pharmacy and home infusion in North America selects AlayaCare Cloud to be compliant with the Cures Act and the Electronic Visit Verification mandates for skilled care and home infusion services RICHMOND HILL, N.Y.—18

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Medicare Claims for Unrelated Services Put Hospices at Risk

Hospice News

Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6 Medicare claims for unrelated services creates serious financial and legal risks for hospice providers — even if they are not the ones who sent the bill.

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Culture, Compensation, Education Are Keys to Hospice Chaplain Turnover

Hospice News

On average, the tenures of more than a third of hospice chaplains in the United States lasted only one to two years between 2010 and 2019, according to research from Zippia. The hospice chaplain shortage is reaching a tipping point.

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First Docs to Expand Nationally With Private Equity Backing

Hospice News

CEO Dr. Sanjay Bhatia founded First Docs in 2010, introducing its proprietary 360 Community Medicine Care Model. Philadelphia-based First Docs is poised for multi-state expansion after securing new investment dollars from the private equity firm Webster Equity Partners.

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Hospices Seek Stronger Ties with Underserved Asian Communities

Hospice News

between 2010 and 2019. Racial and socioeconomic disparities in hospice and palliative care have been persistent problems in the field for decades, including among communities of Asian origin.

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SCAN Health Plan CEO Sachin Jain: Don’t Lose Sight of Patients in the Quest for Value

Hospice News

In 2010 and 2011, he was a special advisor to then U.S. For better or worse, value-based care may be the most influential concept in 21st Century health care. And with the advent of new payment models, hospices are no longer on the outside of those programs looking in.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

1-800-HOSPICE

2010; (29): 4457-4464. The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care.

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Local Couple Pursues Business Dream as New Owners of Always Best Care Charlotte  

Always Best Care Senior Services

Always Best Care of Charlotte has been serving Mecklenburg County residents since 2010 and is one of nine Always Best Care agencies across North Carolina. Husband-and-Wife Team Now Lead Award-Winning Senior Care Services in Charlotte, Pineville and Matthews.

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For-Profit or Nonprofit, Hospice Is Not a ‘Hustle’

Hospice News

MedPAC in 2010 reported a utilization rate of 44%, up from 23% in 2000. The recent article by the New Yorker and ProPublica that branded “hospice” as a profiteering “hustle” was an outrageous misrepresentation of the provider community.

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Considering Hospice: Starting the Conversation

1-800-HOSPICE

2010: 118 (3): 274-7. 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.

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Should You Become a Nurse Practitioner?

Nurse.com

This ratio has remained constant even as the number of practicing NPs has exploded in recent years , from 148,000 in 2010 to 222,000 in 2016, to 355,000 by Spring of 2022.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. Summary Transcript Summary. What would it take to transform dementia care?

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Medicare Gives Hospice a Larger Pay Raise than Expected, but Less than Needed

1-800-HOSPICE

2010 Dec 8;17(8). On July 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a final rule giving hospice a 3.8% pay raise in 2023. This increases both the rate hospices will be paid for services and the cap on total reimbursement.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Mentoring the Next Generation of Black Nurse Researchers

Minority Nurse

Now an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing—where she started her PhD study in 2010—she is guiding the next generation of emerging scientists. “We’ve come a long way,” remarks Dr. Yvonne Commodore Mensah, Ph.D, MHS, RN.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access. Summary Transcript Summary. Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice.

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Hospice Disenrollment for People with Dementia

1-800-HOSPICE

2010 Nov 3;304(17):1929-35. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia among older adults. About one in nine people in the United States aged 65 and older have Alzheimer’s disease.

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Medicare’s Proposed 2023 Raise for Hospice is Only a Third of the Cost-of-Living Increase, Again

1-800-HOSPICE

2010 Dec 8;17(8). With a 2% Medicare payment sequestration looming over hospice since 2013, news of a much needed raise comes with a sigh of relief. In a move that would repeat the 2021 suspension of hospice sequestration , Medicare recently proposed a 2.7% pay increase for hospice in 2023.

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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Have Family Approach

Minority Nurse

This special day was first celebrated in 2010 when the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON) initiated it and it falls during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

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The Real History of U.S. Nursing Shortages

Clipboard Health

In October 2010 , the Institute of Medicine released its landmark report on The Future of Nursing. Thousands of U.S. businesses are struggling to deal with staffing shortages. In restaurants and retail, being short-staffed might mean longer waits for diners and shoppers.

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AlayaCare offers deepest integration to Medicaid billing through partnership with Waystar

AlayaCare

Waystar has scored Best in KLAS® every year since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book surveys since 2012. Partnership enables agencies to remove countless hours of manual work and expedite payments September 18, 2019 – Toronto, ON – AlayaCare, a leading home care software provider, today announced the deepest Medicaid billing integration of its kind through a partnership with Waystar’s claims management solution.

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Demonstrate and Improve Cultural Competence in Nursing

Nurse.com

is now more racially and ethnically diverse than in 2010. As the U.S. continues to diversify, so do patient populations. By demonstrating and increasing your cultural competence, you can enhance care quality, patient outcomes, and patient-staff relationships. According to the U.S.

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Demonstrate and Improve Cultural Competence in Nursing

Nurse.com

is now more racially and ethnically diverse than in 2010. As the U.S. continues to diversify, so do patient populations. By demonstrating and increasing your cultural competence, you can enhance care quality, patient outcomes, and patient-staff relationships. According to the U.S.

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“I’m Going to Match!” A Tale of Nurses, Mentoring, and a Lifetime Bond

Minority Nurse

From 2005 to 2010, they teamed-up on a protective immunity project studying aspects of the immune system in kidney transplant patients.

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Hospice Decreases Spending $11,300 per Patient in a Recent Study. Minorities Half as Likely to Receive Hospice.

1-800-HOSPICE

2010 Apr 1;362(13):1211-8. A recent study out of The Ohio State University confirms that hospice reduces healthcare spending. Patients in hospice have medical bills reduced by $11,300 on average, compared to matched patients who do not receive hospice.

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Will My Hospice Send an Aide? Maybe Not.

1-800-HOSPICE

1 They analyzed the Medicare records of 674 hospice patients receiving care between 2010 and 2018. Hospice aides visit the homes of patients. They assist with grooming, hygiene, light housekeeping, and more.

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Opioids May Improve Survival for Hospice Patients

1-800-HOSPICE

2010: 118 (3): 274-7. It is well established that hospice correlates with survival improved by days to months among the subset of patients who meet admission criteria. 1-12 Of course, the goal of hospice is neither to shorten nor prolong life.

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Opioid Equianalgesic Tables are Broken

Pallimed

The 2010 table is the Classic EAT, the 2018 table is the DOC2 EAT. by Drew Rosielle ( @drosielle ) I am proposing we do away with equianalgesic table (EAT) as a tool to inform clinical decisions about opioid rotations/conversions.

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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

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) published its “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (8),” which was updated in 2010 and 2015 (11). May/June 2010; 13:E141-174. March 16, 2010. by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A.

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

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. 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.

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How to Stop Cyberbullying in the Workplace

Healthy Workforce Institute

According to a 2010 & 2007 U.S. If you’ve ever received a hostile e-mail from someone at work or had nasty things written about you by a co-worker online, you know what it’s like to be a target of cyberbullying in the workplace.

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Rise of the Dutch Model of Neighbourhood Care

AlayaCare

They are: A 2010 Ernst & Young study that calculated this model can save costs per patient by up to 40% as compared to regular home care agencies. Almelo is a town of about 72,000 residents that sits in eastern Holland. It is there, around the middle of last decade, where a local nurse named Jos de Blok decided to do something about the growing frustration that he and other colleagues felt about having less time for actual patient care.

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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth Melanie Stover, Owner of Home Care Sales, shares everything you need to know about referral sources to set your agency up for success.

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Hospice False Claims: AseraCare Lost A Battle But Has Helped Win The War

Hospice Law Blog

In fact, he reversed his own negative opinion on many patients, explaining only that he “was not the same physician [in 2013 when testifying at trial] as he was in 2010 [when opinions first rendered].” Last week, the 11th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals reversed summary judgment given to AseraCare in its hospice false claims case, setting up more litigation on the question whether AseraCare’s certifications were made in good faith.

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Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 1

Pallimed

To take a couple examples, there is this very well done Australian study from 2010 in the BMJ (the "Melbourne Study") which did a comprehensive ACP intervention in high risk hospitalized older patients. by Drew Rosielle ( @drosielle ) Several years ago I was giving a talk in front of a mostly palliative care audience and asked, " How often do you find yourself, in the care of your patients, saying to yourself something like 'Thank the stars this patient has a healthcare directive (HCD)'?"

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