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MA Beneficiaries More Likely than Fee-for-Service Patients to Enter Hospice from Community Setting

Hospice News

million patients who elected hospice in the last 90 days of life during the years 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018. In 2011, for example, 50% of MA patients came to hospice from the community, compared to 39% of those in traditional Medicare.

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Palliative Care in A Conflict Zone: Help Us Support Our Hospice and Palliative Care Colleagues in Ukraine

GeriPal

The All-Ukrainian Associate of Palliative and Hospice Care was founded in 2011 and is currently working to provide support and direct supplies to hospices and palliative care wards in the country. Stories from our colleagues in Ukraine have been both inspiring and troubling.

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Fleece Takes Helm as Empath Health CEO, Begins ‘One Hospice’ Initiative

Hospice News

In 2011, he co-authored the book “The New Age: The Future of Health Care in America,” with the futurist David Houle, which examined the ways the system could evolve in the coming years. .

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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

Hospice News

Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016.

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CMS Issues Final Rule for MA Risk Adjustment Audits

Hospice News

The agency will continue to collect only non-extrapolated overpayments for 2011 through 2017. Many hospice providers rely on Medicare Advantage (MA) reimbursement to support palliative care, PACE and social determinants programs, among others. In a final rule issued today, the U.S.

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Behavioral Health, Chronic Disease Among Top Health Care Macro-Trends Impacting Hospices

Hospice News

Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large.

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Health Systems Adapt to Changing Environment by Expanding Hospice, Home-Based Care

Hospice News

As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S. Home-based care, including hospice, is an increasingly attractive space for health systems and hospitals — a trend that accelerated during the pandemic. Health systems are bringing care to the home by a number of routes.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet.

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Opioids May Improve Survival for Hospice Patients

1-800-HOSPICE

2011; 14 (8): 929-939. 2011; 12 (2): 129-134. 2011; 29: 2474-2480. 2011 Feb 1;12(2):129-34. It is well established that hospice correlates with survival improved by days to months among the subset of patients who meet admission criteria.

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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

Hospice News

Hagfors previously served as CEO of the Bend Memorial Clinic – now known as Summit Health – from 2011 to 2016. Partners In Care has formed a strategic partnership with the primary and urgent care provider Summit Health aimed at increasing access to palliative care in Central Oregon.

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A Day in the Life: Vascular Access Nurse

Daily Nurse

In 2011, there was an opportunity to join an all-ICU RN PICC team. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work as a vascular access nurse and what this job offers? Here are the basics that you need to know. Rebecca Myers , MSN, RN, VA-BC, NPD-BC, is a Vascular Access Nurse (aka PICC nurse).

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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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Nurse Finds Her Passion as Nurse Educator

Minority Nurse

My nursing education journey began when I received my BSN in Nursing at Rutgers College of Nursing in 2011. During my time there, I met some strong, professional women professors. They took such a personal interest in me that, over a decade later, I think of them with much gratitude.

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2022 Hike for Hope Results

Hope Hospice

The prior records were 702 hikers in 2011 and $114,758 in 2018.

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Caregiver Compensation

Chicago Caregiving

The program started in 2011 for post-September 11, 2001 veterans. Many veterans’ caregivers qualify for compensation with a little-known Veterans Affairs program.

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Diverse Caregivers

Chicago Caregiving

After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care. The Care Plan helps people navigate healthcare systems not set up for LGBTQ+ or racially diverse caregivers.

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Connecting Body & Soul: What I Learned from Marion Woodman

Elaine Mansfield

Jung Society of Chicago interviewed me about my experiences with Marion Woodman from 1988 to 2011. In late August 2022, Patricia Martin of the C.G.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

1-800-HOSPICE

2011; 29 (6): 755-760. The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care.

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

Hospice News

A 2015 simulation estimated that annual savings in 2011 ranged between $316 million and $2.43 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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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary. We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducnumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. . But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No No it’s not just the French version of Aducanumab). .

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Considering Hospice: Starting the Conversation

1-800-HOSPICE

2011; 14 (8): 929-939. 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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All Ears

Chicago Caregiving

Landmark research in 2011 showed an association between hearing loss and decline in cognitive ability. Hearing aids and support groups help people counter hearing loss . Picture the scene: A person with hearing impairment claims they don’t have a problem.

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Patient Protectors

Chicago Caregiving

I left in 2011 because I could see some of the challenges patients were going to have and knew they would need help navigating the system. When staffing shortages impact patient care, advocates look out for patients’ best interests, says former nurse and current patient advocate Teri Dreher.

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“Dying is very lonely”

The Chaplain's Report

In a 2011 study of time nurses spent with patients in a teaching hospital in Australia, it was found that nurses spent only about 37% of their time with patients. “Helen” is an elderly woman who lives in one of the nicer nursing homes in my area.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

I love his just because this is a palliative care audience in the article that then turned into being mortal, New Yorker, I don’t know, circa 2011 or something. Summary Transcript Summary So you want to write a book. So you want to write a book! So…you want to write a book?!?

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5 Ways to Build Your Network of Nursing Career Allies

Minority Nurse

I met my former business partner and RNFM Radio cohost, Kevin Ross, on Twitter in 2011 — we then launched one of the first nursing podcasts around, as well as a growing company.

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Trailblazers in Nursing History: Chinese-American Nurse Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo, RN (Part One)

Minority Nurse

These certificates were on par with diplomas and conferred the title Registered Nurse (Chung, Ching & Wong, 2011).

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Houston Franchisee Expands Always Best Care Business With Acquisition of West Houston Territory

Always Best Care Senior Services

Always Best Care of West Houston has been serving the communities of Galleria, Westchase District, Bunker Hill, Memorial City and Spring Branch since 2011. Local Entrepreneur Guido Cubellis Building on Success with Award-Winning Senior Care Services.

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

Pallimed

Although this reduced Washington state’s Medicaid costs, it contributed “to the deaths of at least 2,173 people between 2003 and late 2011 (23, 25).” Seattle Times, December 21, 2011. 2011 Sep 6;155(5):325-8. by by Chad D.

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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

Their reporting prompted the state of Washington to “issue a public health advisory that singles out the unique risks of methadone” as contributing to the deaths of at least 2,173 people between 2003 and late 2011 (14). 2011 September 6; 155(5): 325–328; See: [link] 6. by Chad D.

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

In a 2011 paper published in Pediatrics , authors pointed to increased survival rates of infants born prematurely, those with various congenital anomalies or chronic conditions, as well as children who today are more likely to survive cancer and other illnesses. Content courtesy of UPMC.

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Bluegrass Care Names Clinical Services COO, Hospice Maui Appoints New CEO

Hospice News

Initially named Skagit Hospice when it began services in 1989, the organization rebranded in 2011. Bluegrass Care Navigators names clinical services COO. Lexington, Ky.-based

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How do Patient Navigators Contribute to Equitable, Quality and Culturally Appropriate Health Care?

Minority Nurse

In January 2009, the Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) staged the grand opening of the Refugee Women’s Health Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona with Dr. Crista Johnson, MD, FACOG as the founding medical director. It is believed to be the only such clinic in the U.S.

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Lathrop GPM Attorney Randal Schultz: Private Equity An Economic Driver in Hospice

Hospice News

Moreover, the proportion of hospice and home health transactions that involved private equity firms rose by 25% between 2011 and 2021, Braff reported.

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DOJ Continues to Eye Clinical Researchers (and the Universities and Hospitals Employing Them)

Healthcare Law Insights blog

14, 2011, available at [link]. [4] Last month, The Economist published a call to action titled, “There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research: And a worrying unwillingness to do anything about it.” [1]

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5 Ways to Build Your Network of Nursing Career Allies

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

I met my former business partner and RNFM Radio cohost, Kevin Ross, on Twitter in 2011 -- we then launched one of the first nursing podcasts around, as well as a growing company.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

I always thought this article came out 2011. Summary Transcript Summary. Buprenorphine. It’s been around for a long time but is acting like the hot new kid in town.

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Significant Change in Medicare Enrollment Risk Categories for SNFs

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Since the regulation was first effective in 2011, the providers which have been in the limited category have included physicians, ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals, rural health clinics, and skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”).

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PROP’s Disproportionate Influence on U.S. Opioid Policy: The Harms of Intended Consequences

Pallimed

PROP Appears on the Opioid Policy Scene In 2011, a group of internists, including Michael Van Korff, Andrew Kolodny and Roger Chou, co-authored an article that modern palliative care physicians would recognize as a “warning shot (6)” in the world of opioid policy (7).

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Research Results About Leaders’ Ability to Address Disruptive Behaviors

Healthy Workforce Institute

Lewis & Malecha, 2011, p.

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Ep. 76: When to Hire On-Call Supervisors for After Hour and Weekend Calls

Home Care Pulse

John Bennett ( 00:44 ): Yeah, so our agency started back in 2011. So we started back in 2011 out of his house.