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Humana CEO Broussard to Step Down in 2024, Succeeded by Envision Healthcare Exec Jim Rechtin

Hospice News

Rechtin comes to Humana from Envision Healthcare where he is now president and CEO. He joined the company in 2011 and became CEO in 2013. The post Humana CEO Broussard to Step Down in 2024, Succeeded by Envision Healthcare Exec Jim Rechtin appeared first on Hospice News. Humana Inc.

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Violence and Danger in the Healthcare Workplace

Daily Nurse

It’s no secret that nurses and other healthcare professionals face the daily danger of infection, back injuries, falls, needlesticks, and other on-the-job hazards. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers put themselves at grave risk to care for critically ill patients, and some paid with their lives.

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Bristol Names Nurse Melissa Broadway as New Chief Clinical Officer

Hospice News

A registered nurse, Broadway was most recently the chief operating officer of hospice for Bayada Healthcare. Broadway entered the hospice field as a bedside nurse in 2011 at a Texas location of Gentiva-Kindred Hospice. Bristol Hospice has appointed Melissa Broadway as its new chief clinical officer.

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NorthShore–Edward-Elmhurst Health Expands Partnership with Residential Home Health and Hospice

Hospice News

. “Our focus as a system and with this partnership is to provide safe, seamless and personal care for our home health and hospice patients in the communities we serve,” said Michael Hartke, president of the health system’s parent company Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH), in a statement. As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S.

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Hospices Gear Up to Reach More Heart Failure Patients, Enhance Quality 

Hospice News

Though a growing body of evidence indicates that giving heart failure patients access to palliative care can improve outcomes, those services — as well as hospice — remain underutilized, a 2011 study in the journal Progress in Cardiovascular Illness found. Recently, the Chemed Corp.

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

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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. Families are unable to visit their loved ones and patients suffer from limited access to care and medications.

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“Don’t talk your business”: Big and small actions to promote Black Women’s engagement with healthcare.

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This week’s blog has been written by Dr Clare McFeely RM, BSc, MSc, PhD, PgCAP (@ClareUoG) & Tobi Abedayo RN, BN(Hons) from Nursing & Healthcare School ( @UofGNurse), School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Each issue presents, and is perpetuated, in everyday healthcare encounters.