Hospice News
JULY 1, 2022
Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. The company cited swelling construction costs, rising inflation rates and the staffing shortage.
GeriPal
JUNE 22, 2023
We have nurses who have extra training in palliative care. We have medical social workers who support the patients. You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. We have a psychiatrist.
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GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. Melissa: It’s definitely true that that’s the incentive under nonprofit and for-profit.
Hospice Nurse Hero
MARCH 2, 2022
Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Also, nurse supervisors can share survey scores and comments with the hospice IDG. To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain.
Living With Hospice
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
So, as kids would say, definitely my bad! We lost my wife's Dad, four years ago, he was in a nursing home and basically died a miserable death. So if she stayed in a hospital or nursing home, we couldn't see her. We made the decision to bring her home to live with us. And we do get those once in a while.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Huge.
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