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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

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A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

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The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC. So, these U.S.

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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

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The palliative care team at Partners In Care expanded to include a physician, nurse practitioner, registered nurse and chaplain, which rounded out the multidisciplinary team approach they could offer patients.” Hagfors previously served as CEO of the Bend Memorial Clinic – now known as Summit Health – from 2011 to 2016.

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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

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Constructed in 2006 as the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, the facility was renovated after its closure in 2011. To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting. has opened a new inpatient center in Illinois.

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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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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. Currently, this includes only physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers. “If

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

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The son of a nurse and a minister, Fleece said he learned the importance of service early in life. 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. . I wasn’t seeking hospice.”

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How 3 Hospice Companies Are Beating the Workforce Shortage

Hospice News

“About a year ago, we did a kind of a deep dive into some of our challenges, and we realized that we needed to do a new staffing model, one that would attract dedicated, experienced hospice nurses,” Kalvaitis said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “So We were able to hire nurses.