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Forks Community Hospital Launches Palliative Care Program Amid Financial Struggles

Hospice News

Most of the hospital’s revenue shortfall comes from its long-term care facility — a 20-bed outfit. In a community in which 52% of the population struggle to afford basic necessities, patients can’t always pay for their stay, and the hospital eats that cost. Some research supports that prediction.

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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

percent of the total distribution in the 2017 dataset to 20.3 Many older Americans receive care from aging services facilities across the United States. There are currently about 14 million people receiving some form of long-term care services. percent compared to the 2017 dataset ($300,506).

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Nursing Informatics: Vital to the Profession

Nurse.com

This means integrating and applying knowledge with the objective of improving processes and procedures with patient care. Nurses and other front-line healthcare providers help drive information technology, including how it ultimately improves patient care, Newbold said. The career is certainly evolving. “I

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Patient and family engagement — understanding CoreQ

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

We know that ensuring that patients and families are engaged as partners is an effective way to measure the quality of patient care. The SNF QRP and CMS’s other quality programs are foundational for contributing to improvements in healthcare, enhancing patient outcomes and informing consumer choice.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.