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

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“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 

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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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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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How 3 Hospice Companies Are Beating the Workforce Shortage

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This contributed to a spike in turnover, which in turn slowed Enhabit’s rate of growth, CEO Barbara Jacobsmeyer said at the Credit Suisse Annual Healthcare Conference last November. The organization is the parent company of 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations.

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

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Initially named Skagit Hospice when it began services in 1989, the organization rebranded in 2011. She succeeds Cassie Mitchell, who left the organization to become CEO of Colorado-based HopeWest Hospice. The provider in 2019 unveiled an integrative medicine program designed to help manage patient symptoms such as pain and anxiety.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. Heather: Sure.