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

Hospice News

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. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

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. Palliative Care clinicians from Nkhoma Hospital in Malawi visit U.S. So, these U.S.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Summary Transcript Summary. Narrative medicine? Wonderful work. SPONSOR: .

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‘Education is important but camping is importanter’ – Strategies in self care

The Nurse Break

She has since founded EQ Minds and works as a corporate wellness presenter and coach. Interestingly, Mills et al (2018) identify that self-care is a joint responsibility between individuals and their workplaces. Exploring the meaning and practice of self-care among palliative care nurses and doctors: a qualitative study.

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

GeriPal

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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

Pallimed

by Chad Kollas, MD ( @ChadDKollas ) Introduction A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has captured the attention of the palliative care and chronic pain communities (1). The Backlash to the PROP Petition Begins This unity within the supporters of the petitioning group was short-lived.

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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).” Presented on February 10, 2022, for the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (Virtual Conference). Seattle Times, December 21, 2011. ISSN 0885-3924.

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