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NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Unveils New Palliative Care Unit

Hospice News

Its palliative care program began in 2006, launching its first clinic in 2010 and growing ever since, Cohen stated. NYC Health + Hospitals has upwards of 70 locations across New York City’s five boroughs, including primary, specialty and post-acute care centers, nursing homes, trauma centers and a home care agency.

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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. Rehabbed to Death.

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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 Services and items provided to patients in nursing homes are a particular area of risk for hospices, she said. Case in point, the skilled nursing and long-term care service provider American Senior Communities recently settled an FCA case for upwards of $5.5 million.

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Hospitals with the Most Vulnerable Maternity Patients Understaffed with Nurses

Minority Nurse

Nurses play a central role in the 3.6 In addition, the researchers encourage the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Joint Commission to consider safe staffing requirements for inpatient maternity care, similar to CMS working to establish minimum staffing regulations for nursing homes to promote patient safety.

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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. The example I give is, if you’ve ever walked into a nursing home, or where there’s an activity happening for a group of people with dementia, that is a little depressing to me. Alex: Could we touch on nursing homes too? You will actually have more energy.”

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric? Why are they doing this?

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Realizing a Dream: How I Earned My Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

Nurse.com

Stage three: Hashing a new plan Since our girls were now in school, I took a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home. In those days, the nursing home trained nursing assistants and you didn’t have to be certified. I worked as a nursing assistant for a couple of years, then I was off to LPN school.

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