Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
A pilot program by an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) reduced per capita health care expenditures at a rural hospital by 70% and admissions by 98%. A key component of the initiative was a “Four Questions” framework for goals-of-care conversations. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation ran the project between 2011 and 2015 at 32 participating hospitals and health systems.
Daily Nurse
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
There’s a puzzling conundrum in the world of nurses and nursing that’s difficult to reconcile because most nurses are kind, caring, and compassionate with their patients but horrid in their treatment of other nurses. Backbiting, bullying, and otherwise ill-treatment are so common that it’s hard to imagine that a profession steeped in healing could be rampant with a scourge of unkindness and incivility.
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
AccentCare CEO Steve Rodgers is stepping down, with Laura Tortorella, COO of Steward Health, lined up to succeed him. Rodgers became AccentCare’s top executive in 2012 after more than three years as the CEO of OptumHealth Collaborative Care. Optum is now a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH). A major achievement during Rodgers’ tenure at the Dallas-based hospice, home health and palliative care provider was the company’s 2020 merger with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative.
Nurse.com
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Nurses are intimately involved in the well-being and health of those in their community. It’s their duty to care for others physically, mentally, and emotionally. Because this care often relies on patient compliance, the public’s perception of nursing has significant impacts on the profession. History of nursing’s perception Stereotypes: Historically, nursing was considered a pink-collar profession — jobs traditionally done by women.
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Anthony Spano, director of client development for Netsmart, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News.
Daily Nurse
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Nursing has a predicted shortage of nine million nurses worldwide by 2030, and Trinity Health is addressing this critical challenge by introducing a first-of-its-kind care delivery model to 38 nursing units in their hospitals in eight states to address these challenges, improve care delivery, increase job satisfaction and create career pathways for nurses at any stage of their career.
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Together for Short Lives
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Children’s palliative care is an active and total approach to care for children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions that embraces physical, emotional, social and spiritual support from the point of diagnosis, throughout a child’s life, their death and beyond for the wider family. It can include the management of distressing symptoms, provision of respite care, […] The post Identifying who children’s palliative care is for appeared first on Together for Short Lives.
Nurse Nacole
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Category: Psychiatric Nursing Most side effects from SSRIs are transient. Dose-related sexual effects, such as decreased libido or delayed ejaculation in men and anorgasmia in women, are common and typically do not resolve without intervention.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
In 2013, the Center for Medicare Advocacy and Vermont Legal Aid, along with additional counsel provided by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, settled a lawsuit with the Medicare program (the named defendant, Katherine Sebelius, was the Secretary of Health and Human Services at the time) challenging the so-called “improvement standard.
EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Presented by the EAPC Reference Group on Palliative Care for Children & Young People. The session will include presentations on: Advance Care Planning: what are we talking about – Erna Michiels, A moving and personal story of a mother about the importance of ACP – Sidonie Schreuder, mother of daughter Milou Research and International developments in ACP – Julia Downing 13th October 2023, 1pm CEST **Please note, the webinar start time is Central European Summer Time.
Palliverse
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Photo by Annette Sousa on Unsplash Some lives are difficult, relationships do not always go smoothly. Every person has problems, every couple has problems. Some couples have more problems than others. People are not always at their best and might have limited support available. Many people cope by self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. The use of substances worsened their relationship over the years.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). What if, for at least some older adults who need acute-level care, instead of treating them in the hospital, we treat them at home?
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