Hospice News
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
OpusCare of Florida recently opened a new inpatient hospice facility near the state’s southern tip. OpusCare received a greenlight to launch the center from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), which awarded the organization a certificate of need for Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. This made the facility the first freestanding hospice center in that region.
HopeHealth
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
If you or a loved one is living with heart failure, you don’t have to go it alone. Palliative care helps with everything from everyday questions to long-term plans. The post What palliative care means for people living with heart failure appeared first on HopeHealth.
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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Chemed Corp. (NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare is banking on improved recruitment and retention to spur upward movement on patient census, admissions and length of stay. The company is leveraging two interventions implemented last year to build forward momentum, its Community Access Initiative and its recruitment and retention bonus program, according to VITAS President and CEO Nick Westfall.
Daily Nurse
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Critical thinking, confidence and a sense of pride and accomplishment top the list of benefits of the Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN) credential, according to a recent peer-reviewed research article in Air Medical Journal.
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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Efficiency will be the name of the game at the Pennant Group (NYSE: PNTG) as the company works to offset labor pressures and a challenging reimbursement environment. Pennant is leveraging technology to combat persistent workforce shortages and the elevated turnover spurred during the pandemic. Providers have increasingly sought methods for streamlining clinical teams’ administrative tasks, for instance, including time spent on documentation.
Healthcare Law Insights blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
In the world of qui tams , it is usually the whistleblower pushing cases to trial. But on February 23, 2023, a federal judge in West Virginia set down for trial a hospital’s case against a whistleblower. Now, in a trial set for late March 2023, a jury is set to determine whether a whistleblower and the general counsel for a competing health system engaged in malicious prosecution and tortious interference by filing a qui tam against a West Virginia hospital.
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The Nurse Break
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Nerve-Wrecking & Stressful Graduate Nursing Job Interview You’re about to graduate with your nursing degree and you’re now stressed out about the graduate nursing job interviews you hopefully are going to get! Regardless of where you’re applying, you need to know how to ace both traditional, clinical and behavioural questions during a graduate nurse program.
Minority Nurse
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Karen McNulty is a registered nurse at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (BWMC) in Glen Burnie, Maryland. With almost 23 years in the field of nursing, McNulty has been able to help other nurses, both novice and experienced, to evolve into their roles on the busy medical-surgical/telemetry unit, now transitioning to step-down.
Palliverse
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Of the words most used in medical school, Empathy is number one. Em-pa-thy, they recite from the dictionary. Diligently, we write it down. From the German, einfühlung , or ‘in feeling’, noun: ‘the ability to understand another person’s feelings, experience, and so on’ And I wonder, Why they fail to teach us of the Germans, Who felt the need to combine ein with fühlung and give it meaning.
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