Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contessa has done high acuity care, relatively new to the palliative part of the business, but Amedisys has palliative that stretches over both the traditional hospice side of the business, as well as on the Contessa side. Palliative care isn’t palliative care in palliative care, and having the lack of a definition by CMS.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. How do you think about it?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Sweet Caroline.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Well, it’s not an institutional factor, but institutions can either support having more palliative care teams, better palliative care resources, being palliative care friendly or being less so. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved. Welcome back, Rebecca.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. How do we include the people that you care about in these conversations? Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’d imagine that as a seasoned palliative care doc, I’d have a pretty good definition by now of what “maintaining dignity” or “loss of dignity” means, but you’d be sadly wrong. Medical Assistance in Dying and Palliative Care: Shared Trajectories Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Harvey: Good question.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. I was always critical care bound since medical school.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I think that’s the part that’s still the fundamental foundation of hospice, individualized care plans focusing on patients, families, wants, needs and goals. Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. If you do good quality patient care, I believe the other naturally follows.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s just an interference with good patient care. But the point is that EMS is a big piece of this discussion and national going forward, National POLST’s Collaborative is making that definitely a priority because it is forgotten a bit in some states. Kelly: Yeah, no, definitely. Eric: Just too much.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It helped me to understand and justify my interest in (this won’t surprise you) EVERYTHING related to geriatrics or palliative care. Bob: It’s a little bit like patient care, right? That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” It can be your second or third reaction.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I think there’s definitely a stigma that, like you said, we just all wanna be fixers and we almost don’t wanna take advantage of that, that thought that, oh, the things I did weren’t enough, or I, I wasn’t able to to really fix that person. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. And this is one way from a patient-centered standpoint, not the convenience of the clinician, but from the patient-centered standpoint, we can get care to people who otherwise have no access. It’s been a little while since I did direct patient care.

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