Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

She was also a human resources business consultant at consulting firm CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) from 2016 to 2023. Sarah brings to Androscoggin her decades of HR experience in organizations of various sizes, including in the manufacturing, health care, financial services and technology industries,” the organization posted on social media.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Crouch brings more than 30 years of health care leadership experience to the role. He also served as medical director at skilled nursing facility provider Life Care Center of Port St.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Gerard had been COO of Amedisys from 2016 to 2022. Florida-based TheKey is a provider of home care, memory care and specialized care services in more than 100 markets throughout the U.S., I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief Executive Officer at TheKey!” Gerard wrote on LinkedIn Monday.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

“Partners In Care and Summit Health were longtime partners in end-of-life care in the region so the formation of a formal agreement was a natural evolution in this relationship,” Hagfors told Hospice News in an email. Summit Health offers primary, urgent and specialty care services, including palliative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

The nonprofit offers home- and facility-based hospice, skilled nursing and home health care. Goodwin also has a memory care program and provides personal services to help seniors age in place, such as assistance with care coordination, home repairs and housekeeping. Cottrell joined the hospice in 2016.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

“By investing in staff members and partnering with bedside providers, our facility improved the organ donation experience for nurses, physicians, donors, and families,” Gibson says. The number of organ donors in 2021 was 31, with more than 22 donors in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Established in 1971, the organization provides hospice, palliative, nursing and home care services across four counties in western New York. HomeCare & Hospice also operates a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), dubbed Total Senior Care, Community Care of Western New York. “A

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2022

New Hampshire, which scrapped CON in 2016, was the most recent. Montana removed CONs for all settings except nursing homes as of last October. These federal rules were eventually repealed, and since then states have been left to make up their own minds about CON. Will CON laws last? CONs and the quality question.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

In this PONDER-ICU trial, we didn’t rely on palliative care specialists; we engaged bedside clinicians to have ICU communication and adhere to guidelines. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? It was the first randomized palliative care trial in hematology, is the way that I think of it.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

But if they can join with an ACO who does get rewarded for better care and lower outcomes, and they can have a shared savings agreement, they can get rewarded for the better outcomes they create.” Partnering with palliative care providers offers ACOs advantages as well, including significant cost savings, according Schramm.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Earlier this year, it was awarded the prestigious 2023 Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association, which recognizes programs for their efforts in palliative and end-of-life care. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The JAMA Network Open study found that more than half of cancer decedents in states that require health care providers to offer palliative consultations died at home or at inpatient hospices versus a hospital setting. 2 ‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care (Aug.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

Doctors and discharge planners can always call to have a nurse visit and explain hospice services and criteria. 2016; 108 (1): dvj280. Place of death: correlations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers’ mental health. Family perspectives on end-of-life care at the last place of care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

million in 2016, according to the U.S. Also, across the board, more health care has been steadily moving into the home setting, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. All said their HCA hospitals pushed palliative and end-of-life care in pursuit of better performance metrics,” NBC News reported. More than 1.72

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

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). Many have persistent unmet care needs leading to high costs with questionable quality outcomes (Salzberg, et al. The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision. You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, where they end up after, what happens to them and where they end up is actually a big deal.

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Chicago Caregiving

MAY 18, 2024

In 2016, Chicago began revitalizing older libraries to include affordable housing. When you look at the cost of use of ERs, premature placement of people in nursing homes, jails — which are very expensive — it was worth investing in permanent housing,” Gonyea says. Photo by Katie Scarlett Brandt. Today, the program runs on a $1.9

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

How did you get interested in end-of-life care, palliative care, and some of the work around dignity that you are really well known for? For a palliative care physician, or a palliative care nurse to take the time out of their day to implement dignity therapy? Here’s a little bit. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. Do we really trust all doctors and nurses so far? Would you, with your parents, trust any doctor or nurse to make such life or death decisions, regardless of the law?

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