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Valley Health System, Family of Caring Launch Palliative Care Partnership

Hospice News

New Jersey-based Valley Health System is partnering with Family of Caring Healthcare to offer palliative services to their patients. Family of Caring Healthcare System includes 10 health and rehabilitation centers that provide subacute care and rehabilitative services, assisted living, and long-term care.

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Counseling Awareness Month

AT Home Care & Hospice

These are settings that reside outside of the hospital and can include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation centers and home care agencies. Fortunately, a number of counseling services are readily available to individuals requiring long term care.

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

A veteran of the senior services sector, Health has spent his 30-year career as a leader of hospice, senior housing, long term care, and PACE programs, in addition to a stint as a health care lobbyist. I also think that we have to look at the potential new relationships out there with long term care.

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

. — Samantha Black, executive director of PACE services, TRU Community Care Individuals eligible for PACE services include seniors 55 and older who live in a service catchment area defined by zip codes. Most PACE participants are reimbursed through the long-term care programs within Medicare and Medicaid, according to Black.

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Acute Kidney Injury vs. Chronic Kidney Disease

Traditions Health

Securing Long-Term Care for AKI vs CKD While both conditions can be managed if detected early, many patients with AKI or CKD may find it necessary to plan for hospice care. Care is provided within the comfort of your loved one’s own home, allowing them to retain a high quality of life.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: Could we touch on nursing homes too? Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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

Hospice News

They were advanced practice nurses, some of them were doctors that were actually reviewing the medical eligibility documentation requirements and CTI. I think it’s the first one that’s ever been done on hospice nurses in the hospice industry, done by the Amity Group. There’s a significant cost.

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