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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

Hospice News

They’ve found their clinical backgrounds gave them valuable perspective as they worked to strike a balance between their patients and their workforce. I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. We’re starting small to be able to manage patients coming to us.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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7 Proven Ways to Improve Your Hospice CAHPS Scores

Hospice Nurse Hero

This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. If you take a look at the specific questions that are asked on the CAHPS survey, you will find that they touch all areas of care. To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive.

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