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Breaking the Silence: The Mounting Need for Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

Traumatized and abused hospice patients and providers often experience an array of lingering physical, emotional and psychological effects that can fall into a silent abyss of unmet needs. Additionally, home health and hospice workers face higher safety risks and a myriad of unique challenges compared to other health care providers.

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Executive Shifts at Amedisys, AMOREM, VITAS; Compassus, Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoint New Clinical Leaders

Hospice News

“I admire the courage that it took to merge two long-standing non-profit hospice and palliative care agencies in an act to build sustainability and ensure our residents throughout our 12-county service area have access to quality serious illness and end of life care services. Brickner is also a veteran of the U.S.

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Georgia Hospital Improves Organ Donation Process

Daily Nurse

.” The performance improvement initiative began at the end of 2017 to address concerns about lower-than-expected metrics related to the medical center’s organ donation process. The number of organ referrals doubled, from 169 in 2015 to 320 in 2021.

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

Hospice News

I began taking care of hospice patients back in 2015 after moving to San Diego and working in a hospital setting for a while. I often saw slow response times as patients waited sometimes days for nurses to provide care. Providing great patient care is the top priority.

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Population Health, Quality, and Palliative Care: The Role of Public and Private Payors

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

Here are a few ways in which they can contribute: Proactive Identification and Measurement: To have a true impact on quality, you need to allocate limited resources to the “right” patients, but who are they? Data have shown that of the top 5% of healthcare utilization in the US, only 11% are at the end of life (Aldridge & Kelly, 2015).

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

So we’re going to have a link to the article that you published in JAMA IM titled The Hospital Culture and Intensity of End-of-Life Care at Three Academic Hospitals. And I was interested in intensity of end-of-life care and differences in intensity of end-of-life care. Liz: Right.

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Health Systems Adapt to Changing Environment by Expanding Hospice, Home-Based Care

Hospice News

of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. For most, this extends to end-of-life care. Health care in the United States revolves around a complex reimbursement system that is difficult to navigate, with regulations and rules that can sometimes limit patientscare options, she added. “I

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