Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Others have delved deeper into Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) programs, telehealth services, durable medical equipment and medication management, among other areas. Technology is playing a larger role in hospices’ ability to address clinical capacity strains amid evolving patient needs, she said. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Others may lack the technical skills needed to ensure clinical documentation is sound in electronic medical record systems, Garcia added. For example, some clinicians may lack the communication skills needed to discuss goals of care at the end of life, she said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

We’re not going to take the place obviously of a medical director or a certified hospice nurse, but we are going to give them another tool to question their thinking and make sure that what needs to be documented is being documented.” What other programs can we help you find for them?

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High Peaks Hospice

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Nurse Practitioner can also perform procedures for which he or she is privileged to do and document all assessments, consultations, and care. Documents all patient information and services under HPH policy and procedure. Ability to quickly learn new software (electronic medical record system).

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

With regulatory scrutiny on the rise in the industry, hospices are zeroing in on trained and qualified jobseekers who can prevent billing and documentation errors, which are often red flags that bring surveyors or auditors to their doorstep. Staff who can manage the intricacies of hospice billing are also in demand.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ann Merkel and some of the group of original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. This article is sponsored by Axxess. How would you respond to that?

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The CDC’s reply was unusual in that it provided no responsive documents, but cited Chou’s public disclosure of his conflict of interest from the July 2021 Meeting of the CDC BSC-NCIPC and recusal from those proceedings (13). He can be reached by e-mail at chad.kollas@orlandohealth.com or via Twitter at @ChadKollasMD.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

We have a wide ranging conversation that touches on how to place aging, disability, and multimorbidity in the context of serious illness conversations, “striving toward normal,” stoicism, existentialism, psychedelics, the goals of medicine, medical aid in dying and more. Why don’t people want to document serious illness conversations?

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

The team encompasses medical directors, primary physicians, registered nurses (RNs), certified nursing assistants (CNAs), social workers, chaplains or spiritual counselors, bereavement specialists, and volunteers, along with one designated family member. What exactly does hospice care entail?

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). However, PNN received 1,500 pages of documents “so heavily redacted they were completely blank (52, 53; See Figure 2 Below).

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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