Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Case in point, the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA) currently has roughly 1,300 members across 49 states, the District of Columbia and 12 additional countries. In 2019, the organization had just 200 members. The 2019 average length of stay for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6

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Daily Nurse

JULY 18, 2023

Older patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) have almost twice the risk of dying soon after they are discharged from an intensive care unit (ICU) and within the 12 months afterward, according to research published in the American Journal of Critical Care ( AJCC ). which covers the period from 2016 to 2019.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

Renee Kinder, MS, CCC-SLP, RAC-CT, is Executive Vice President of Clinical Services for Broad River Rehab and a 2019 APEX Award of Excellence winner in the Writing–Regular Departments & Columns category. of 6) of 1.5″ ″ x 2″ and 1 pkg. Activities Not Assessed (ANA).

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In November 2003, the Orlando Sentinel published a series of articles on OxyContin, exemplifying the media’s moral panic about opioids (12). CDC issued another public warning against misapplication of the 2016 Guideline on April 24, 2019 (52). How Did the Media Contribute to this Moral Panic?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Close to 12 million people in the United States qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living, NHPCO reported. Of those, about 3.8

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The patient safety concerns bubbled up in 2019 with two reports from the U.S. The bill was spurred by the two 2019 OIG reports. CMS can now deactivate a provider’s Medicare billing privileges after six consecutive months of inactive claim submission, shortened from the previous 12-month time frame.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

Alive Hospice’s service region spans 12 counties across central Tennessee. The organization’s IRS 990s in 2019 indicated that Alive Hospice’s program services represented the bulk (88% – 89%) of its income. Founded in 1975, Alive Hospice’s annual census hovers close to 5,000 patients. Alive Hospice’s revenue reached $38.87 of revenue.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 2, 2023

Emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts by youth aged 12 to 17 increased by 39 percent from February through March 2021, compared with the same time in the same period in 2019. The increase in youth suffering from mental health issues is evident in a CDC survey. On April 27, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V.,

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The company has completed four home health and hospice deals since 2019, including the JourneyCare purchase. Multiples in the hospice market reached upwards of 29x in 2020, which beat 2019’s record of 26x, reported PwC’s Health Research Institute. Interest rates cloud 2023 outlook. This lull is likely temporary.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Essentia Health initiated the telestroke program in the fall of 2019, with coverage provided by four interventional neurologists, three of whom work in the system’s Comprehensive Stroke Center in Fargo, North Dakota. The post Telestroke Consults Expedite Care for Rural Patients first appeared on Daily Nurse.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Despite global recommendations that preterm infants should receive their vaccines at the same time as their full-term counterparts, empirical evidence undertaken outside of the UK suggests that they face unwarranted delays, with infants of the lowest gestational ages facing the longest delays (11, 12). Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 14, 2023

The foam dressing remained in place for seven days, with primary care nurses assessing the site at least every 12 hours. In 2019, the overall HAPI incidence decreased to 1.30%, with nine tracheostomies and no MDRPIs. As clinically indicated, the dressing was changed to a standard nonwoven gauze drain sponge after seven to 10 days.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

This followed the launch of its dementia care and family support program in 2019. AMOREM has locations across 12 counties in northwest North Carolina, which include four inpatient care units. The hospice has seen growth in recent years, marked in part by the expansion of its inpatient hospice facility in 2021.

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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Some 12 million patients depend on home care and hospice providers, who depend on NAHC for the best in advocacy, education, and information.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

days the prior year in 2019, representing the “largest increase” during the previous five years of incremental growth, NHPCO reported. Recent data show that hospice stays of six months or longer can reduce health care costs in a patient’s last 12 months by as much as 11%. That number reached 92.5 billion annually — a 3.1%

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JULY 28, 2023

billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Even when hospice care is 89 percent of total cost, spending is still 12 percent lower compared to the non-hospice [patient]. That’s a huge difference and a huge value to Medicare.”

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

in Pallimed on September 12, 2022 (1). Ballantyne disclosed her work in “legal consulting,” but did not clarify that this work involved receiving payments from law firms participating in multidistrict litigation against opioid manufacturers and distributors, which she had disclosed in several articles (1, 8, 9-12). September 12, 2022.

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Pallimed

MAY 3, 2021

Published on February 12, 2021, in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), it observed that the “age-adjusted overdose death rates involving synthetic opioids, psychostimulants, cocaine, heroin, and prescription opioids during 2013–2019” have increased a whopping 1,040% (1).

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

There were 12 total divestitures where hospitals and health care systems sold hospice and home health assets between 2014 and 2022.”. Valuations reached upwards of 29x in 2020, beating 2019’s record high of 26x, reported the PwC’s Health Research Institute.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2022

Pennant, which owns and operates hospice provider Cornerstone Healthcare, was spun off in 2019 from The Ensign Group (NASDAQ: ENSG). The First Call asset in that same 12-month period also saw EBITDA rise 113% to $378,000. Pennant retained Ensign’s hospice, home health and senior living operations. Pre-acquisition, this was $177,000. .

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 10, 2023

” (2019). Journal of Nursing Law 12 (2008): 68-77. . “ Certified nurse educator review book: The official NLN guide to the CNE exam.” Suplee, Patricia D, Vicki D. Lachman, Barbara Siebert and Katherine Kaby Anselmi. Managing Nursing Student Incivility in the Classroom, Clinical Setting, and On-Line.”

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Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

MARCH 21, 2023

Vitamins: A 2019 research study pointed to evidence of a decrease in chemo’s effectiveness and a substantial decrease in the desired outcome by people who were taking certain vitamins (including B12, A, and C). What Should You Avoid During Chemotherapy? Keep in mind support is very important during cancer treatment.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 17, 2023

Gallup’s results show us that six out of 10 millennials are open to a job change in the next 12 months, that 21% have already changed jobs in the last year, and that only three in 10 millennials feel “emotionally and behaviorally connected” to either the job that they perform or the organization employing them.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It was also used by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries to guide prescribing for the state’s “Medicaid patients, Workers’ Compensation recipients, and state employees,” which led to increased use of methadone, which Franklin selected as a less expensive alternative to other opioid analgesics (12).

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 3, 2022

The acronym, ACT NOW (accident; change; temperature; new pain; oozing; wound) was devised by the iDEAL (Insights for Diabetes Excellence, Access and Learning) group in 2019. 2020; 31(12):516–519. We can do this by raising awareness of the seriousness of foot problems and this is where ACT NOW comes in. Pract Nurs. 2021;32(Sup3):S3–7.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 5, 2023

Even more literature exists which details when standardised tools for handover are utilised, it improves communication and reduces errors ( Bukoh and Siah 2019 ; Forde, Coffey and Hegarty 2020 ). 2019 Dec 20;28(3). 2019 Aug 5;20(3):250–7. 2019 Dec 19;24(1):21. 2018 Aug;84:12–8. 2016 ; Cornell et al.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2021, August 12). The movement to include culturally competent care in nursing is currently operational in practice and academia. Nursing professors teach their students to be culturally competent as it is woven throughout EBP curricula (Hung et al., Why are they so few people of color in nursing? Washington Correspondent, Medpage Today.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Jenna Ricciardi MACN graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing from The University of Notre Dame Australia in 2019 and commenced a graduate program at a major tertiary teaching hospital in 2020. I graduated from The University of Notre Dame (WA) in 2019 and commenced a graduate program in 2020. chron’s, colitis, polyps and more.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MAY 5, 2023

2019 Oct 1;22(10):1208-12. References Costantino RC, Felten N, Todd M, Maxwell T, McPherson ML. A survey of hospice professionals regarding medical cannabis practices. Journal of Palliative Medicine. The post Cannabis in Palliative Care appeared first on 1-800-HOSPICE™.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

September 12, 2019 – Toronto, ON – AlayaCare, a leading home care software platform, today announced their partnership with Nevvon – an intuitive and user-centric education and training solution for caregivers.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 23, 2023

of first choices) and non-binary (25% of first choices) individuals [12]. The consultation of colours for Allied Health Professionals has completed, and interestingly white was more popular amongst female respondents (39.2% of first choices) compared to males (30.9%

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Yet therein lies the issue, as wha t we remember as normal in 2019 will not return to our industry as we know it. In the middle of a pandemic – indeed, amidst a growing second wave of COVID-19 for many countries – it can be difficult to think about an “after” scenario, when the world returns to some semblance of normal. What a year.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 22, 2022

News & World Report’s 100 Best Jobs of 2022 , nursing roles occupied two of the top 12 spots and reflected excellent nursing job growth. In the Indeed list, a registered nurse (RN) earned the top spot for its strong salary potential (listing an average base salary at $84,074) and the 34 percent increase in job postings from 2019-22.

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Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Todd Haines, MSN, RN, EMT, CEN, director of trauma services at a level 3 trauma center in Tennessee, says he’s been verbally and physically assaulted more in the 12 years he’s worked as an ER nurse, than in the entire 10 years he worked in law enforcement. Approximately 70% of ED nurses report being hit and kicked on the job.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Registration has launched for the 2022 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care , held February 9-12 in Nashville, TN. Leadership Forum: Ignite brought together over 60 leaders from diverse disciplines and practice settings on October 12 for a digital event designed to advance leadership skills. The retreat was a huge success.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

13-1664 (JRT/JSM), 2015 WL 5521751, at *12 (D. CV 15-2101 (JRT/TNL), 2019 WL 4897191, at *11 (D. May 28, 2019). Santa Fe, LLC , Civil No. 18, 2015) (concluding that treating physician was adequately disclosed where party produced medical records of the party’s only visit with physician). [4] 4] City of Mankato, Minnesota v.

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AlayaCare

JULY 17, 2018

Last month, the House passed a bill to push the initial deadline of January 1st, 2019 a full calendar flip to January 1st, 2020 for Medicaid-reimbursed home care providers to be up and running with EVV. home care agencies rushing to implement federally-mandated electronic visit verification (EVV) systems, there looks to be some reprieve.

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