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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

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In September 2015, the Partnership HealthPlan of California — managed by Medicaid — launched a pilot program dedicated to palliative care, with an emphasis on enhancing patient outcomes while reducing costs associated with caring for chronically ill seniors.

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

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Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Rural Providers Weigh Telehealth Investment Against Regulatory Uncertainty

Hospice News

Thus far, the initiative has yielded positive results, but the process hasn’t always been easy, according to Dr. Gregg VandeKieft, executive medical director of the institute’s Palliative Practice Group. Fratkin founded palliative care provider ResolutionCare in 2015. palliative?care care services for?patients patients who?need

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

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Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. And so I decided to look at medical aid in dying. George Annas piece mentioned on podcast. SPONSOR: .

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