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Geriatric Nursing: A Specialty in Need

Nurse.com

population ages, geriatric nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) can make an impact. The need for geriatric nurses can be explained simply by looking at data highlighting an aging United States. Geriatric nurses are critical to our healthcare workforce.”. Attention for geriatrics. Necessities for geriatrics.

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Hospice Care Found Lacking in Assisted Living Setting

Hospice News

Hospice providers with higher volumes of assisted living-based patients are 7% more likely to receive lower quality scores than those in other settings, according to a recent study , published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program

Hospice News

The 3-Act Model has been woven into various other programs across Johns Hopkins, including medicine residency at Bayview and multiple fellowship programs, spanning geriatrics to oncology. To help combat the issue of burnout, Wu and his team met with a facilitator in 2019 and co-designed a wellness program called Thrive by Design.

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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

Hospice News

The move toward risk-based reimbursement systems is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. Capital Caring launched its Primary Care at Home service in 2019. A number of hospices have launched their own programs or partnerships with other providers.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.

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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.” A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life.

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Sanford Health, Good Samaritan Society’s Mobile Clinic Offers Support to Hospice Patients

Hospice News

Though they operate under distinct brands, the two organizations merged in 2019 to create one of the largest rural health systems in the nation, according to Rochelle Rindels, Good Samaritan’s vice president of nursing and clinical services.