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Can a Hospice Patient Go to the Emergency Room or Hospital?

Shining Light Hospice

This can be a covered benefit to relieve caregiver burnout, or to provide continuous care if the main caregiver cannot do so for a brief period of time. Typically the Hospice Nurse and Social Worker coordinate this. To Obtain Curative Treatment- Revocation.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. It’s a story about caregiving. That caregiving piece, like I want to see something actionable. Anne: Hi, guys.