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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

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billion in 2022, a report from ResearchandMarkets estimated. I know how helpless physicians and nurse practitioners can feel when confronted with patients struggling with dementia. Awareness of even the basic tools to address some of this will greatly empower our medical community.” billion in 2030 from $34.5

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia.

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3 Palliative Care Providers to Watch

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Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities. The key secondary goal is to make the support and care we provide easier for caregivers of patients with serious illnesses,” Smith added. “We

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

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Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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