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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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Future Leader: Melissa Heiss, Vice President of Hospice, Jet Health

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The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Melissa Heiss, vice president of hospice, Jet Health, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News.

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

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‘We oftentimes come in on the palliative care side for patients who maybe haven’t seen a physician for the last 10 years, because they’re not able to get out of their home, and there’s no resources available to them for home-based primary care,” Dado told Hospice News. “I Starting in 2023, the U.S.

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

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. — Nick Westfall, CEO, VITAS Healthcare Earlier access and longer hospice stays can reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%, a recent joint report found from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

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This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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

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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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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data. Write to your congressperson. Alex: Hope so. Eric: That was during the pandemic.