Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A primary barrier for patient and family access to palliative care is a lack of standardized definition and payment mechanism. Without an established palliative care benefit or universally recognized definition in place, care delivery models, patient experiences and reimbursement of palliative care services vary widely across the nation. Consequently, many providers and payers don’t have a clear picture of who should be eligible for palliative care, the specific services they should receive, or

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. The Department of Health and Human Services helps to guide billions of dollars in investment and direction in research, policy, and health care. The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), within the HHS, is the principal advisor to the Secretary of HHS on health policy, ranging from legislation to strategic planning to research.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SCAN Health Plan is among the Medicare Advantage (MA) payers entering the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) payment demonstration in 2023. The four-year program — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — launched Jan. 1, 2021, with 53 participating health plans. This number grew to 115 in 2022. Next year, 119 plans will participate, according to the U.S.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Several years ago, I gave a presentation at a northern California nursing conference on a healthy work environment for nurses. During my preparations, I spent much time pondering aloud about the scourge of nurse bullying and lateral violence and why healthcare workplaces lend themselves so readily to unhealthy work conditions. There are many reasons that […].

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Today's Caregiver

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Coping with a diagnosis of Lewy body dementia (LBD) and all that follows can be challenging. Getting support from family, friends, and professionals is critical to ensuring the best possible quality of life.

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Nurse Nacole

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Category: Fundamentals Clindamycin (Cleocin), a lincosamide antibiotic, reversibly binds to 50S ribosomal subunits preventing the formation of a peptide bond, which in turn inhibits bacterial protein synthesis.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Despite their public-facing profession, many nurses put networking activities at the bottom of a to-do list. But keeping a strong professional network is important in good times and bad. You want to have colleagues and professional peers you can reach out to when you are looking for professional opportunities; but in a strong network, you are also able to offer help to others.

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Today's Caregiver

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We prefer not to make others wait Now that we're older with a slower gait.

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Always Best Care Senior Services

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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