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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. David Cluff, as medical director of two counties in its service region across central Arizona. billion. “I

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

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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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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). He concluded that “[o]pioid-related deaths in this population may be preventable through use of prudent guidelines regarding opioid use for chronic pain (7).”

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