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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

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Hospice of the Panhandle Promotes New CEO from Within West Virginia-based Hospice of the Panhandle has appointed Chief Clinical Officer Nikki Bigiarelli as its new CEO. The hospice world is constantly changing,” Bigiarelli said. Palliative care will be expanded. Cogswell has led the organization for the past 36 years.

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Physician, Legislator Morhaim: Hospices Should Be Vocal About Advance Care Plans

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Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. I think everybody in hospice and palliative care has to be really vocal about this. “I That’s hard to do.

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WellSky Intent on Expanding Footprint, Presence Across Care Continuum

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“That gives us powerful insight into how care is being delivered in the home. I would argue there’s been more acuity being moved into the home, and I suspect that genie won’t go back in the bottle,” WellSky CEO Bill Miller told Hospice News. “So Data analytics systems are gaining rising levels of attention in health care.

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Nursing the Nation and the World

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Nurses nurse the nation in schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, home health, hospice, and public health. Nurses case manage patients with tuberculosis, fulfill critical roles in patient transportation and life flight, and they provide cancer navigation and care coordination.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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We have a pediatric specialty, and on the flip side, we have many, many of our patients are in the older adult population and we don’t really take into account some of the complexities of that care in the same way, and I really wanted to learn about hospice and palliative care and how to best guide patients.

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From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

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Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws. The reasons for this run the gamut.