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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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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

Hospice News

This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care.

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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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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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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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Breast Cancer Patients Often Lack Access to Palliative Care

Hospice News

Non-Hispanic Black, Latino, American Indian and Asian or Pacific Islander patients with metastatic breast cancer were less likely to receive this care than white patients from 2004 to 2020, the study found.

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

Hospice News

“We decided to stand up this clinic, got some of the providers that worked in the older adult geriatric sector and really looked at what skill mix would be needed there.”. The clinic launched in 2020, initially serving 14 locations. These clinicians partner closely with the nurses in the long term care and assisted living facilities.