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VITAS Taps Alexander Fernandez as CFO, EVP

Hospice News

“I look forward to partnering with this team and all its employees, immersing myself in the culture and executing on strategies that ultimately contribute to ensuring VITAS as the premier provider of end-of-life care.” He held the role for two years after serving as CFO at Tenet’s North Shore Medical Center from 2006 to 2012.

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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

Hospice News

I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. My parents are both nurses and my wife is a nurse as well, so I’ve been around clinical care my entire life before we decided to branch out into hospice. I get into the field right alongside our staff to provide hospice care.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

The study found that more than half of ED visits among patients with cancer, 51.6%, were identified as potentially preventable, with the absolute number of potentially preventable ED visits increasing substantially between 2012 and 2019. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Derek Flores

Minority Nurse

Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care. Nursing is a second career for Derek J.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. It’s been around for a while.