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Hospice Nurses Take a Holistic Approach to Dementia Care

Nurse.com

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. million cases in 2019 to 152.8

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Hospices Struggle to Balance Costs, Patient Needs in Medication Deprescribing

Hospice News

“We have a patient on a heart medicine that we’ll bring to hospice, but they have to come off of that heart medicine in two weeks. is too expensive for the hospice to pay for. The joint report published in March found that hospice care — regardless of length of stay — saves Medicare approximately $3.5

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To Marry the Love of My Life

The Bucket-List Blog

This summer, in the middle of a pandemic and while my soon-to-be husband was receiving hospice care, I married the love of my life. I’ve been his caregiver since November 2019, when Hospice Care Plus started caring for him in our home. But Junann, our hospice chaplain, said, “God makes a way out of no way.”

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Two CEOs Retire, Three Hospice Leadership Teams Grow

Hospice News

She became a hospice nurse for By the Bay Health in 1996, then named Hospice of Marin, taking on various roles in clinical leadership throughout her more than 27-year tenure. “It Comfort has been Calvary Hospital’s COO since 2019. Whitaker has been at the helm of the nonprofit since 2014, serving as COO prior to that.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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