Hospice News
APRIL 23, 2024
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.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
He joined the hospice provider in 2015 as director of market development before moving up the ranks to general manager in 2018 and senior general manager in 2022. In addition to hospice, VITAS offers palliative care and home medical equipment services. McLeod was most recently a health care consultant at CD&M Consulting.
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Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2023
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.
Hospice News
JUNE 8, 2022
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. Michael Fratkin, chief medical officer for ResolutionCare, a Vynca company. palliative?care care services for?patients
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
The organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center and later joined NYC Health + Hospitals Corp. Prior to Calvary Hospital, he was COO at the Jacobi Medical Center. He joined the health system as medical director 24 years ago.
Hospice News
JUNE 2, 2022
This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care. We had two palliative care clinics.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).
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