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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Lauren O’Dwyer, CFO, Anvoi Hospice and Anvoi Management

Hospice News

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. When I was getting into health care out of public accounting, I knew specifically that hospice was a field that I was interested in.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Hollie Trogdon, Senior Vice President, PruittHealth Home

Hospice News

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Early on I knew I wanted to work in health care and needed a career in which I could find meaning and purpose. What drew you to this industry?

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

Hospice News

Patients will receive 24/7 care at the six-bed hospice facility, which features private patient rooms, a living room space, kitchen, large dining area, office area and a serenity garden. The 10-bed inpatient hospice facility had been in the works for more than a decade. “In No similar facilities exist in Caroline County.

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Kinship Care: What is it?

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

"Kinship care" is a popular term often used in reference to caregiving performed by a family member. I believe non-relatives who serve as committed caregivers during illness should also be included in the kinship care definition and treated as such. This was my first major introduction to hospice care.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

What do we know about the differences between the two types of organizations when we’re thinking about hospice care? One is the patient population and a targeting of for-profit hospices around patients who are going to be potentially less costly and more profitable. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

So, as kids would say, definitely my bad! You might want to try a pro and con approach or an upside to treatment and a downside to treatment and an upside to hospice care and a downside to hospice care. So it's interesting to hear comments from other countries about hospice care.

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Ep.4: Alzheimer’s Awareness: How to Support Clients, Caregivers, and Family Members

Home Care Pulse

Wendie Colvin is an amazing nurse author and community nursing subject matter in both acute and post-acute care. She is practiced at the bedside in multiple settings and has extensive experience as a manager and educator in both home health and hospice settings. Yeah, definitely. Go sit with her.