Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2024

Research has found links between greater telemedicine utilization and improvements in health care access and quality, particularly among chronically ill populations. A recent Health Affairs study has dug into the quality and cost impacts of telehealth utilization during the pandemic. Researchers examined more than 5.5 million beneficiaries with continuous enrollment in traditional Medicare who received care across 576 health systems between 2019 and 2021–2022.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

APRIL 18, 2024

The EAPC Task Force on Advance Care Planning and Dementia have recently had their paper: Future policy and research for advance care planning in dementia: consensus recommendations from an international Delphi panel of the European Association for Palliative Care published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity. The paper is open access and available here: [link] The post New EAPC Task Force Publication appeared first on EAPC.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2024

VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. (NYSE: CHE), has completed its $85 million acquisition of Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one assisted living facility location. The deal is structured as an asset purchase, which allows the buyer to assume liability for assets included in the transaction. It also brings VITAS into the Alabama market and expands its geographic footprint in Florida.

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Comfort Home Care

APRIL 18, 2024

Receiving a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease is a life-altering event not only for the individual diagnosed but also for their family. You must know accept that those little hand tremors will intensify and what were once ordinary tasks will become complex and challenging. At Comfort Home Care , we understand the impact that Parkinson’s Disease can have on families.

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Home With Help

APRIL 18, 2024

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Palliverse

APRIL 18, 2024

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash How did you meet each other? My friend was going out with a girl who worked at a shoe shop. One day he asked me to meet him at the shoe shop. I waited outside for him and then the other girl who worked at the shop was sent out. She had been told that there was someone outside who wanted to meet her. That’s how we met and we’ve been together ever since.

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Nurse Nacole

APRIL 18, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Cardioversion may be extremely painful or terrifying, and patients must be adequately sedated before its use. Patients who are not adequately sedated may experience extreme anxiety and fear.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 18, 2024

When you’re a dedicated nurse who wants to work across state lines, doing so should be easy, accessible, and user-friendly. However, this was not always the case for ambitious, hard-working nurses. In the old days, nurses needed to apply for and maintain multiple licenses, a ponderous process by any measure. Now, with the benefit of the greatly expanded Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), nurses in most states (and some U.S. territories) have the flexibility of a portable license that allows for an

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Eric asks the question that is on many of our minds – is the future of AI more Skynet from Terminator, in which AI takes over the world and drives humanity to the brink of extinction, or Wall-E, in which a benevolent and empathetic AI restores our humanity? Our guest today is Bob Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF and author of the Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age.

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