Hospice News
AUGUST 9, 2023
Prison populations across the United States saw a 280% rise in incarcerated seniors in this age group from 1999 to 2016, the research found. The prison system was never designed to become a nursing home or hospice, but it has become one. They didn’t have a specific nurse for them.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
AUGUST 18, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). Project Support.
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AlayaCare
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Home health visits can reduce the likelihood of hospital readmission by as much as 25 percent. Receiving home care is a safer alternative than nursing homes, hospitals or long-term care facilities – chances of infection are much lower.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. We have on that podcast about re-imagining long-term care.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path? Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home.
Chicago Caregiving
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Within weeks of Judy’s death, her family evicted Wetzel from the home they shared. Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care. Hospital administrators placed the woman in a subpar nursing home, at which her health declined.
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