Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Clinical practice guidelines are more clear regarding the initiation of medications, but often unclear about when discontinuation is safe and appropriate, a 2019 study in the journal Clinical Medicine indicated. We need to shift into a system that understands how to pay for a lot more at the end of life than we’re doing now.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Understanding these perspectives can drive conversations about management of these symptoms, according to VITAS Medical Director Robert Nguyen, who worked on the study. between 2010 and 2019. Views on pain and discomfort at the end of life can differ among various demographics. and 20%, respectively. They represent 1.8%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

She previously served as its associate medical director following her fellowship, then moved on to become its director of pediatrics before ascending to her current leadership position. “It Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Appoints Medical Director. Goode will continue to care for patients on a part-time basis.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, the organization had just 200 members. But research shows that providers that focus on health equity outperformed others in profitability by 36% during Q4 2019, according to a global study by McKinsey & Company. The 2019 average length of stay for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

“Analyses of massive amounts of data can lead to patient insights and predictive analytics, facilitating health care interventions to occur at more appropriate times and potentially avoiding expensive medical situations for patients, payers, and providers.” What other programs can we help you find for them?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center and later joined NYC Health + Hospitals Corp. Prior to Calvary Hospital, he was COO at the Jacobi Medical Center. Comfort has been Calvary Hospital’s COO since 2019. He joined the health system as medical director 24 years ago.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly wage hike, and medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%, the report indicated. in 2019, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported. Nurses saw average national salary increases of 5.95% in 2022. among Medicare decedents from 51.6%

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About the Authors: Lead author, Chad Kollas, MD, serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL. 2019 Dec;160(12):2655-2660. He can be reached by e-mail at chad.kollas@orlandohealth.com or via Twitter at @ChadKollasMD. Ann Fam Med. 2021 Jan-Feb;19(1):79-82.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And so while I’m there, I’m precepting my nurse practitioner students and first and fourth-year medical students. I’m the medical director of quality, and it’s a big part of my job, work, and daily life. And I went every six months as scheduled in August 2019. And it’s just been a great experience. I love working there.

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JUNE 1, 2022

About 10% of hospice patients were enrolled for only two days or less during 2019, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Two previous iterations of the bill passed in the House but stalled twice in the Senate, most recently in 2019, despite its nearly 300 bipartisan cosponsors.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Chou publicly acknowledged his funding from AHRQ in a presentation at AMDG's "Patient-Centered Approach to Chronic Opioid Management Conference," held on August 9, 2019 (45).

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MARCH 24, 2023

Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. So they looked at those that died in 2019, did a year back look at total cost of care that showed at six months, if somebody lives six months on average, those in hospice cost the Medicare trust fund 11% less than those who never enrolled.

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