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Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director; Silverado Taps New Sales VP

Hospice News

“In my new role, I’ll lean on my commitment to excellence and unwavering drive to increase access for the individuals – and their loved ones – who need and deserve Silverado’s unparalleled quality and compassionate care.” 2022, and her appointment will now become permanent. She has held the position on an interim basis since Dec.

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Keys to Effective Palliative Care Training Models

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Emerging training models More palliative care education pathways have emerged in recent years, including a virtual reality-based training program that Brigham and Women’s Hospital launched into developing in November 2023. Luke’s Hospice & Palliative Medicine’s program. In 2022 Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc.

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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

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Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. We know that addressing issues related to quality of hospice care is timely and critical to state (and also federal) lawmakers,” Cagle told Hospice News in an email.

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How Quality, Utilization Will Shape Hospice M&A in 2024

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Two of the largest home health and hospice operators nationwide were recently scooped up by UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) subsidiary Optum. billion in 2022 and went on to make a bid to purchase Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) for $3.3 In total hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5

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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

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We are right behind cardiologists, oncologists, critical care and GI and this should be something (when shared) helps to cement our stature. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. We should be including this in our presentations on Hospice and Palliative Medicine 101, or frankly anytime we are asked to speak to outside audiences.

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Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

Hospice News

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Scott, I think you have a song request before we talk about the JAMA piece and default palliative care. I think the last time we had you on was 2022. Good to see you. Ashwin, welcome back. Ashwin: Thanks for having me.