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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. Sweet Caroline. Sarguni: Yeah.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And that is, definitely, one way to approach it. There’s definitely a move towards standardizing that care as well, in the hospital-at-home side.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims.

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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Especially because Hilary definitely told you that she had 2 weeks worth of orientation and preceptor time. The main caveat for this benefit is that the patients that we see must qualify as being “homebound” per Medicare standards and definitions. Killin’ it! Hmmm, what’s really going on here…??!!

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The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022

Home Care Pulse

Since 2020, half of all agencies have introduced online courses into their training program to evolve with the challenges presented during the pandemic. It can be hard for caregivers to find time to complete training and soak in all the information presented to them.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

And of course those high rates of burnout and exhaustion are present across medical specialties. I definitely do. Eric: What excites me about the med students is when I was a med student, I never heard of ADLs or IDLs and we just gave a talk to first or second year of med students. And so I think it’s not all sunny.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Is this a, a safe home environment or this client to live in, you know, a thorough fall risk, but really a good look around the home and, you know, how can they do their ADLs? Laura Coyle ( 15:00 ): That definitely puts them at, at a higher risk. And Laura dropped so many nuggets during that little presentation piece right there.