Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC) audits are on the rise among hospices, with some seeing penalties like reimbursement suspension or repayments. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts UPIC entities to conduct investigations and audits related to potential fraud, waste or abuse. While these audits have rooted out some bad actors, they are also a time-consuming and expensive process for hospices.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 9, 2022

A major challenge and significant pain point of any business is the retention of employees. How to retain caregivers continues to be the main question agencies are asking as they shift their focus to growth in 2022. Many home care agencies are adapting to meet the needs of their caregivers to improve caregiver satisfaction. Based on a recent caregiver employee churn and retention survey conducted by AlayaCare and Home Health Care News (HHCN), caregiver turnover was identified as a top busin

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Hospice News: We have Tina Taylor and we also have Christina Andrews here today.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 9, 2022

Patients lean on them every day, and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) contribute so much to the nursing field—yet they rarely seem to receive the credit they truly deserve. Even when writing this story, autocorrect kept changing CNA to CAN [Microsoft Spelling Checker, are you listening? –editor], and this seems an ironic reminder of the way […].

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition to caring for terminally ill patients on a daily basis, hospice and palliative care physician Dr. Jay Peitzer of Trustbridge Hospice Care is the chief medical officer on a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. DMAT teams have been active nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, giving Peitzer a bird’s eye view into the health care system’s response to the crisis.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 9, 2022

National Nurses United has released a statement concerning the mass shootings that closed the month of May (as there have been so many mass shootings: NNU is addressing the one that left a surgeon, receptionist, and visitor dead in a Tulsa hospital). Yet another tragic mass shooting demonstrates the importance of legislation currently in the […].

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 9, 2022

When I first started my nursing career, I worked on the pediatric inpatient unit. I remember feeling sad and upset when getting report on my patients who had experienced terrible trauma in their young lives. I wondered how they would make it to and through adulthood after having survived abuse, neglect, witnessing violence, or serious illness or injury.

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Solace

JUNE 9, 2022

A few years after urban farmer Stacey Givens bought the Sideyard Farm , her father John was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Though she was the youngest of seven kids, she and her dad were close and he loved visiting her at the farm in Oregon and tinkering with her farm trucks. John died soon after his diagnosis at age 64. Though his death came quickly after his diagnosis, he was in and out of the hospital several times before the end.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

JUNE 9, 2022

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Awareness, Recognition, and Support What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Life is full of events that cause challenge, fear, or even sometimes pose a threat to us. Those serving in the military are even more susceptible than the general public to these events due to the high-stress, high-risk nature of their occupation.

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Palliverse

JUNE 9, 2022

Photo by Jen Gunter on Unsplash. I had never met her before but I had been told she was originally from the Netherlands. I wanted to make her feel welcome to our place and I had selected an orange face mask to wear. I was told of her arrival and asked my Dutch colleague how to greet and welcome her in Dutch. A faded washed out looking lady sat in her wheelchair, accompanied by her daughter, son and his wife.

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Today's Caregiver

JUNE 9, 2022

Sun blisters are a sign of a serious sunburn and are linked to melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. MedStar Health dermatologists offer the following facts and recommendations about sun blisters.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 9, 2022

Renee Kinder. Ap·pen·dix — a section or table of additional matter at the end of a book or document. Do you generally refer to the appendix in your manuals, research materials, or other clinical practice guidelines? Perhaps when a question arises or context references you to the appendix, however not generally without being directed to do so? Today, I hope you gain an appreciation of the additional appendices provided to us within Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) impact the evolution of tel

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Nurse Nacole

JUNE 9, 2022

Category: Fundamentals Before a calcium channel blocker can be selected for treating angina, an assessment must be done to determine a patient’s LV and conduction system function. Calcium channel blockers may worsen preexisting LV dysfunction.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. This was in part due to the tremendous support of the National Institute on Aging. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals.

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