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The Howley Foundation’s $12 Million Gift to Double Number of Nurse Scholars at Cleveland Clinic

Minority Nurse

Cleveland Clinic has received a gift of more than $12 million from The Howley Foundation to double the number of nurse scholars at Cleveland Clinic beginning in fall 2023. The post The Howley Foundation’s $12 Million Gift to Double Number of Nurse Scholars at Cleveland Clinic first appeared on Minority Nurse.

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The Value of Palliative Care Consults in the Hospital Emergency Department

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Between 2014 and 2017, these patients accounted for more than 20% of all emergency department (ED) visits in the United States, according to the U.S. Patients and clinicians can benefit from having palliative care consults available in hospital emergency departments, though currently few providers have done so. ROI,” the authors found. “ED-palliative

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Executive Shifts at Amedisys, AMOREM, VITAS; Compassus, Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoint New Clinical Leaders

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Ginn served in that same role before being promoted to CFO in 2017 and executive vice president in 2021. AMOREM has locations across 12 counties in northwest North Carolina, which include four inpatient care units. The news comes as Amedisys inches closer towards acquisition integration with Optum. billion. “I

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Contessa, Mt. Sinai Expand Joint Venture, Expand Care Continuum

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Sinai in 2017 to provide hospital-at-home services. During the past 12 months, the company has launched JVs that offer palliative care with Mount Sinai Health System , Baylor Scott & White Health , Memorial Hermann Health System , and Henry Ford Health System. Contessa, a subsidiary of Amedisys, Inc., Sinai at Home.

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New Contessa, UAMS JV to Provide ‘Full Spectrum’ of Home-Based Care

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Tennessee-based Contessa in 2017 launched a JV with Mount Sinai Health System to provide hospital-at-home services, which later expanded to include community-based palliative care. The partnership is the latest in a string of JVs for Contessa. These partnerships have become a pillar of the company’s business model during the past five years.

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‘There Are Fewer Quality Targets on the Market’: Hospice Transaction Activity Plummets 

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In comparison, the first quarter of 2022 had 12 hospice-related deals, while the first quarter of 2021 had 13 transactions. Overall, buyout volume fell by more than 35% in 2022’s second half compared with the first half of the year, with Q4 having the lowest quarterly health care private equity deal activity since 2017.

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State Palliative Care Laws Impact Where Patients Die

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The cohort study analyzed site-of-death data from 2005 through 2017, including more than 7.5 Cancer patients in states with laws that require health care providers to provide palliative consultations were more likely to die in the home or in an inpatient hospice setting versus the hospital, a JAMA Network Open study found.