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

Hospice News

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. The nonprofit hospice provider’s subsidiary — Care Guide Partners – provides services at the center. This elevates care that we’re able to provide in the community to our patients.”

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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

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. That was from our what?

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. Journal of Palliative Medicine , 23 (6), [link]. This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world class palliative care.

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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. First, Nisha, a pain and palliative care pharmacist, starts us off with discussing the pharmacology of gabapentin and pregabalin, including common myths like they work on the GABA system (which is weird given the name of the drug). It’s a big episode covering a lot of topics.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.