Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The nonprofit hospice and senior services provider plans to offer primary care to a larger population of chronically ill patients with an emphasis on the Arlington County, Virginia, region. A number of hospices have launched their own programs or partnerships with other providers. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Summary Transcript Summary. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice. First, private equity firms are gobbling up hospices. Thus, they have little in the way of long term vision for hospices, instead focused on cutting costs and maximizing profits. . People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. AlexSmithMD.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right. Lynn: All right.

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NHPCO

MARCH 4, 2022

(Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today announced that Rory will join the organization as the Vice President of Palliative and Advanced Care. Farrand is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner with an MSN focused on geriatric and adult health.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary. Ruth: Sure.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You could even segment this list by target referral sources in each part of the senior living and senior care spectrum. For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. You can also think outside the box when it comes to potential referral sources.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

You could even segment this list by target referral sources in each part of the senior living and senior care spectrum. For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. Senior and geriatric advisors. Other healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Again, this was not an AHPM or HPNA sponsored thing, but we did go around people on the street asking them two questions: what’s one thing that you’re hoping for in the future of palliative care and hospice, and what’s another thing when you’re thinking about what you’re worried about for the field?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care. independent of the JV.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

And to do that, we’re joined by hospice pioneer, Barbara Karnes. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. You cannot be in hospice. So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So we’re not just in home care, we’re in hospital, we’re in laboratory, ambulatory, you know, nursing care and assisted living centers as well. If you’re an agency who also provides pt, OT of speech pathology, registered nursing at home, geriatric management, that’s a wonderful thing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. Yep, for geriatrics? My mother-in-law, Ruth Leman, was a professor emeritus at American University. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eric: So before we talk about improving… So first of all, we just had a podcast not too long ago on assisted living facilities, so it seems very timely. You mentioned hospices, staffing agencies. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jasmine. Jasmine: Thank you. Happy to be here, Alex. I’m glad that Alice brought it up.

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