Hospice News

MAY 10, 2022

Recent acquisitions and joint ventures by The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) are fueling bottom-line growth for the Idaho-based senior services provider. The financial boost from acquired home health and hospice agencies helped mitigate COVID-related struggles like rising costs and labor headwinds. Case in point, the 15 deals the company completed in 2020 collectively grew EBITDA by 51.7% to $1.9 million during the first quarter of 2022, Chief Operating Officer John Gochnour indicated in a first q

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MAY 10, 2022

Bluebird eggs. The forest is green with moss and ferns. Fiddleheads near the stream are ready to harvest and the maple trees dropped their tiny red flowers on the forest floor. Trout lilies finish their season just as Trillium begins theirs. The dogs love to run along the trails, but I climb the hill to Vic’s Red Oak. They willingly follow me. I stand at the granite cairn where Vic’s ashes are buried and listen to a Red-Winged Blackbird call from the swamp at the forest’s edge.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 10, 2022

Nursing in 2022 looks much different than nursing 20 or 30 years ago. Social media is a part of our lives now, for better or worse. To young nurses who grew up in the digital age, it’s an integral part of their lives. Social media is a natural extension of their social circles—a means of […].

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Minority Nurse

MAY 10, 2022

When he is not treating kids as a pediatric Transitional Care Unit (TCU) nurse at VCU Health in Richmond, VA, Ren Capucao, MSN traces the rich heritage of Filipino nurses in the US. As a nurse historian (Capucao’s first article was published in 2019 in the Nursing History Review ), he focuses on studying the fascinating story of Filipino American nurses.

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Responsive Home Care

MAY 10, 2022

“You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.” – Betty Ford We all realize that no person is an island, something that especially holds true when caring for a loved one with dementia. Nonetheless many family caregivers falter with regards to asking for or accepting the help they […]. The post Should You Rethink the Way You Approach Caring for a Loved One?

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Diversity Nursing

MAY 10, 2022

For many years, the healthcare field has struggled with staffing issues, including the Nursing shortage. The COVID-19 pandemic brought these issues front and center. Everyone including Patients, Nurses, and Health Systems benefit from higher staffing rates. Improved staffing levels reduce : Mortality rates. Length of stay. Readmission rates. Preventable health care associated injuries and illnesses such as falls, infections, and pressure injuries.

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Palliverse

MAY 10, 2022

Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash. Working in a culturally and ethnically diverse area over the past ten years I make the effort to try to greet my patients and their families in their native language. My pronunciation may not be great to start with but I try. Even if it means looking up the greeting online before I walk in the room. How would I feel if I was admitted to a hospice in my adopted home country?

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Daily Nurse

MAY 10, 2022

The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Alabama (ASF) has named University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing graduate Collin Dorner, BSN, RN, to its 2022-23 class. Dorner is one of 20 fellows, marking the largest ASF class to date. During the 13-month fellowship, students work to improve the health and well-being of under-resourced populations throughout […].

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Corecubed Care Marketing Solutions

MAY 10, 2022

The quantity of social media platforms today can feel overwhelming, particularly to small businesses. There is a seemingly constant guessing game of which platforms your business should be on and how to best use them to grow your senior care agency. To be successful in social media marketing, however, you don’t need to be doing everything everywhere all at once.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 10, 2022

Meet Professor John Hurley. John Hurley is a Professor of Mental Health at Southern Cross University and works clinically at headspace Coffs Harbour as a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse. He has accumulated over 40 years of experience as a mental health practitioner through developing and leading psychiatric crisis and home treatment services in both Australia and the United Kingdom.

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Comforcare Home Care

MAY 10, 2022

We are excited and proud to announce that Comforcare is certified as a "GREAT PLACE TO WORK.". We have created an amazing employee practice and feel honored to be recognized with this certification.a benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience.

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Nurse Nacole

MAY 10, 2022

Category: Fundamentals ACEIs affect the enzyme responsible for the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II. ARBs block vasoconstriction and aldosterone effects of angiotensin II by selectively blocking angiotensin II from binding to angiotensin II receptors.

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Hospice Promise

MAY 10, 2022

We want to thank all our volunteers who selflessly contribute their time to make a difference in our patients’ lives. We sat down with Scott, our Volunteer Coordinator, to talk about the significance and impact of our volunteers’ work. Scott shares, “The importance of being a volunteer with Hospice Promise is immeasurable. A patient who receives volunteer services lives on average two and a half months longer than those who do not.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2022

In its calculus behind its 2021 Kindred at Home deal, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) had to weigh the potential cost savings and lucrative hospice divestiture against the labor pressures in the space, as well as the complexity of scaling home-based care in a fragmented industry. Last year, Humana acquired total ownership of Kindred at Home after buying out its two private equity partners for $5.7 billion.

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