Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice CEO Retires Lockport, N.Y.-based based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

“Nursing instructors should apply nursing students’ experiences of palliative care to improve and develop nursing education and activities to provide the better care knowledge and experience for terminal ill patients in the ICU,” researchers noted in the study. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

If you spend more than 30 minutes, billable providers are limited to physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Numerous advanced care planning tools show that social workers, chaplains and nurses can have those conversations. The expense can range from $10 to $50 per patient, she added.

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AJN Off the Charts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Attending to spiritual care is a core component of palliative nursing, as reflected in the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care from the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care. Palliative nursing and ‘a deep examination of priorities.’

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. It wasn’t just any nurse. Eric: Okay.

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