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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

1-800-HOSPICE

The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care. 1 As such, hospice utilization among patients with hematologic malignancies merits scrutiny as an area where hospice utilization is traditionally lower than with solid malignancies. Overall, only 41.6%

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Ep.13: How Becoming an Accredited Organization will Help you Build More Partnerships and Increase Referrals

Home Care Pulse

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient.