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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

Hospice News

To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting. Bello and his wife Sade Bello, the hospice’s administrator, launched Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care in 2015.

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By the Bay Health to Merge with Mission Hospice & Home Care

Hospice News

Joining forces under one umbrella is a move to beef up their combined presence in an increasingly competitive hospice market, improve access to care and improve quality, according to spokespeople for By The Bay Health (BTBH) and Mission Hospice & Home Care.

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Two CEOs Retire, Three Hospice Leadership Teams Grow

Hospice News

The organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. That was from our what?

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

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Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. Summary Transcript Summary. Narrative medicine? Schilling, L.,

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Summary Transcript Summary Gabapentin is the 10th most prescribed drug in the United States and use is increasing. J Am Geriatr Soc. Happy to be here.