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Specialized SNF Clinicians Can Help Improve Care Quality at End of Life

Hospice News

Specialized nursing facility clinicians, or SNFists, have a strong potential to reduce hospitalizations and improve quality of care at the end of life, including access to hospice. The work of SNFists uniquely impacted the care of nursing home residents during their last 90 days of life, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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Empath Health Launches New PACE Center

Hospice News

This is the second PACE center that the nonprofit senior care health system has opened and the first such program in its home county, Hillsborough. Empath’s first center, Suncoast PACE, launched in 2012. Empath Health Empath Health Empath LIFE cuts the ribbon on its new Tampa PACE center. We exercise; we do all kinds of fun things.”

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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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High Peaks Hospice celebrates 35 years by looking back at their beginning

High Peaks Hospice

Camillus, director of Uihlein Mercy Nursing Home in Lake Placid, worked to ensure hospice services would be available to nursing home residents. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012. Jimmy Bevilacqua served as the required compounding pharmacist available 24 hours/day.

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Nurses caring for people in a social care setting

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

As we move to a more integrated health and social care system in the UK 3 , social care nurses have a pivotal role to play and are ideally placed to lead and implement change specifically within the nursing/care home sector. There are an estimated 40,000 Registered Nurses working in adult social care in England 5.

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Nursing the Nation and the World

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Hospitals are crucial, of course, but there's more to nursing than units like the ED, the ICU, med-surg, and telemetry. Nurses nurse the nation in schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, home health, hospice, and public health. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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Nurse Specialist or Nurse Generalist?

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Licensed practical or vocational nurses are usually considered generalists, and their work is crucial in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, physician offices, and other milieus where they are the lifeblood of patient care. Generalist nurse practitioners also serve an important clinical purpose in many facilities.

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