Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. Effective documentation of end-of-life choices has been associated with higher likelihood of hospice enrollment and lower incidence of intensive therapies, even during hospital stays, a 2019 JAMA Network study found.

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AlayaCare

MAY 12, 2022

In a recent survey AlayaCare released with Home Health Care News (HHCN), over 60% of respondents identified that their employees were overworked and burned out. Without efficient scheduling and commuting routes for home care visits, most organizations are dealing with increased caregiver burnout, and other challenges such as travel costs, late or missed visits, and more. “ Tanya Foster [a Careline worker] says it takes at least 15 minutes, and probably more, to walk between visits.

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Life & Death Matters

MAY 11, 2022

It is always a treat to hear Maureen speak, and this year at the HPCO conference, it was no exception. Here are her words, for you all to enjoy. “Good morning and welcome to this day! It is so great to be together. I said that yesterday, but it is worth saying again. There is […]. The post A Welcoming Reflection at HPCO by Maureen Russell appeared first on Life and Death Matters.

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 11, 2022

A blog is born. Five years ago, I attended a blog writing workshop at the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) annual conference. It was led by Margaret Cellucci, the former director of communications for NASN. The hands-on workshop was a primer on blogging and included an assignment that the participants needed to submit a blog post about their conference experience before the end of the event.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2022

Some hospice providers are willing to take on additional regulatory pressure if it successfully roots out “bad actors” in the space, Sarah McSpadden, president and CEO of The Elizabeth Hospice, told Hospice News. Regulatory scrutiny is on the rise for hospices nationwide, but is gaining particular traction in California. For example, a recent report from the California State Auditor revealed that “weak oversight” has created widespread opportunities for fraud and abuse.

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AlayaCare

MAY 11, 2022

In a recent survey AlayaCare released with Home Health Care News (HHCN), over 60% of respondents identified that their employees were overworked and burned out.

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Elaine Mansfield

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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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Demand for mental health care skyrocketed during the pandemic. This growing need has spurred the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) to recently develop its Community Counseling Guide to help member providers structure bereavement services, including best practices for billing. Adults nationwide have experienced increased levels of stress, anxiety and depression since COVID-19’s onset.

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Caring Senior Service

MAY 9, 2022

May is Older Americans Month, a time dedicated to acknowledging the hard work and contributions of seniors in our communities. However, it is often overshadowed by the end of the school year, beginning of summer, and other holidays. This year, don’t take Older Americans Month for granted! Instead, celebrate your aging loved ones and the seniors in your community.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 9, 2022

Leaders and members of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and American College of Emergency Physicians called on Congress last Wednesday to pass legislation aimed at reducing violence against health care workers. Emergency nurses and physicians from the two organizations – which partnered in 2019 on the No Silence on ED Violence campaign – spoke during a Capitol […].

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Nurse.com

MAY 9, 2022

Content courtesy of UPMC. Nurses have integral roles in emerging healthcare models aimed at meeting the needs of a growing population of medically complex children. In a 2011 paper published in Pediatrics , authors pointed to increased survival rates of infants born prematurely, those with various congenital anomalies or chronic conditions, as well as children who today are more likely to survive cancer and other illnesses.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2022

Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ: AVAH) is seeing strong returns from its hospice and home health acquisitions while continuing to battle labor headwinds. Industry-wide, workforce pressures from staff shortages and rising wages have not relented. While clinical staff were dwindling prior to the pandemic, the pace accelerated when COVID-19 struck. The surges that occurred late last year and into the first quarter hit many providers particularly hard.

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 9, 2022

Photo by Javardh on Unsplash. Most nurses I know enjoy Nurses Week as an acknowledgment of the very important work we do every day. Nurses’ Week can also be an opportunity to think about our own needs, or to practice “self-care,” a term I find problematic because I worry it has become one of those ideas that nurses get blamed for the absence of, as in, a nurse is stressed on the job because he hasn’t done his “self-care.

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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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Pallimed

MAY 13, 2022

by Matt Tyler ( @PalliDad ) In the survival game Subnautica, you play the role of a space voyager who has crash landed on an aquatic alien planet. You must find a way to escape while navigating the planet’s beautiful but dangerous flora and fauna. Exploration makes the core of Subnautica, and because I am a palliative care doctor, I couldn’t help but draw a parallel to serious illness conversations.

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2022

Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) continues to rebound from the recent staffing woes within its hospice and home health segment. But in light of rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalization rates across the U.S., that near-term optimism coming from Encompass Health – and many of its peers – could prove short-lived. To fully move on from pervasive workforce challenges, hospice providers and others will need to find long-term solutions aimed at bringing more nurses into the field.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 12, 2022

Renee Kinder. The buzz around the proposed rule for fiscal 2023 continues as providers aim to review, digest and comment on proposed updates to the SNF payment rates, wage index adjustments, methodology for recalibrating PDPM parity adjustment, quality reporting and value-based purchasing updates, and multiple requests for information (RFIs). Of equal interest, we see proposed updates to ICD-10 mappings, which are aimed at more effectively reflecting clinical accuracy for the patients we serve d

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Daily Nurse

MAY 13, 2022

Flight nurse Morgan Hand, BS, RN is never in the same place for too long. Her employer is Sanford AirMed, and she calls Fargo, North Dakota home, but when Hand clocks in each day, she never knows where her shift will take her. “One of my very first flights, we actually had to fly all […].

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Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2022

After showering, applying deodorant twice, and cranking up her car’s air conditioning against the summer heat (“I will not be the sweaty, smelly fat girl,” she thinks), Eva arrives at the doctor’s office ready to get to the bottom of what ails her: a newly swollen, tender abdomen, growing breathlessness, and debilitating fatigue. Given her previous interactions with healthcare providers, Eva practices what she’ll say when she reaches the clinic: “I know I am fat.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

Bluegrass Care Navigators names clinical services COO. Lexington, Ky.-based hospice provider Bluegrass Care Navigators has named Stephanie Greene as its new chief operating officer of clinical services. She succeeds Cassie Mitchell, who left the organization to become CEO of Colorado-based HopeWest Hospice. In this COO role, Greene will be charged with overseeing operations of all of the organization’s clinical service lines, which include hospice, palliative and home-based primary care in addit

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Accessible Home Health Care

MAY 9, 2022

For those in the sandwich generation, finding balancing between childrearing and caring for older loved ones can be a challenge, especially during the summer months. To help you better navigate these months off from school, consider these tips for keeping a healthy balance and maintaining effective care for everyone in your family. Create Space for Everyone, Including Yourself.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 12, 2022

A common reason people return to college is to advance their education and their careers. It was the main reason for Jason Herman, BSN, RN, too. But he didn’t just advance in his career. He reached new heights — literally. His degree from Arizona State University’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation served as a stepping stone […].

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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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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2022

Addus HomeCare (NASDAQ: ADUS) has gone all-in on building out its care continuum. Launched as a personal care provider, the company in 2016 began offering hospice and home health to enhance its value proposition for payers by further reducing hospitalizations and emergency department visits. “If you realize that our average patients are in their 70s, a lot of these patients are — not trying to in any way be disrespectful — but kind of frequent flyers,” Addus CEO DIrk Allison said at the Bank of

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MAY 8, 2022

In this week’s Blog, Dr Rebecca Garcia (@bexlostinbooks) interviews Miguel Garcia a Registered Nurse (Adult). Dr Rebecca Garcia also compiled the blog. This brief account is the insider perspective of my journey as a nurse who was diagnosed with advanced cancer in mid-February 2020. This coincided with the beginning of the global pandemic of coronavirus.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 12, 2022

As a nurse, you play a critical role at the bedside, but you also can serve a vital function in the far different and potentially unfamiliar setting of the boardroom. In those spaces, you have the chance to influence healthcare standards, practices and policies. “It is the responsibility of nurses to seek out and serve […].

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Minority Nurse

MAY 9, 2022

When Cade Conville took the podium at the Fall 2021 Accelerated Masters in Nursing Pathway Senior Recognition Ceremony , what could have been a typical award speech turned into an emotional account of his path to nursing and his story of resilience. Six years ago, Conville was a gunshot wound victim. The bullet injured the left side of his face, and he was rushed into life-saving surgery. “I woke up in a lot of pain, in a dark room.

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2022

Private equity (PE) firms represent the strongest competitors for strategic buyers in the hospice mergers and acquisitions market. . Hospice M&A activity cooled off across the board during the first quarter of 2022. In part, this is because a range of buyers scrambled to complete deals during late 2021 and are now focused on integrating those assets. .

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Today's Caregiver

MAY 9, 2022

In a recent survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults, the American Academy of Dermatology found that while respondents gave themselves high ratings for sun protection and most reported that sun protection is more important to them now than.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 11, 2022

Nurse of the Week Margaret Kluin, RN is not the sort to take time off lightly; in fact, until very recently she hadn’t missed a day of work in 15 years. Despite suffering from diabetes and later, kidney disease as well, Margaret, a nurse manager in the orthopedic surgery department at Ocean University Medical Center […].

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Minority Nurse

MAY 8, 2022

Current student nurses have had an academic path that has been influenced in all ways by a global pandemic. This year, Minority Nurse celebrates National Student Nurse Day (honored every year on May 8) by learning more about Azariah Torain, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh. Torain also is involved in the National Student Nurses’ Association where she is the 2022-2023 Imprint Editor and chair of the Image of Nursing Committee.

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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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Today's Caregiver

MAY 12, 2022

In the early nineties, when I was living in North Carolina, I would always look forward to the few days that I would go to Winston-Salem to volunteer at the Bing Crosby celebrity golf tournament which funded multiple charities.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 12, 2022

When Ingrid Johnson, DNP, MPP, RN, FAAN was an undergraduate, she wasn’t really sure if she was on the right path. At the time, she was pursuing a Bachelor of Science in nursing. “I was ambivalent as a BSN student and early on questioned my decision to be a nurse as I wasn’t sure I […].

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AT Home Care & Hospice

MAY 8, 2022

On National Hospital Week and Every Week, We Thank You! By: Anonymous We invite all community members to join us to recognize National Hospital Week, May 8 to May 14, 2022. Here’s more about this yearly observance and how we honor it at AT Home Care. What Is National Hospital Week? National Hospital Week is. The post Happy National Hospital Week appeared first on AT Home Care & Hospice.

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Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

MAY 11, 2022

“You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.” – Betty Ford. These common excuses can lead to Alzheimer’s caregiver burnout. We all know that no person is an island, something which especially holds true when caring for a senior with Alzheimer’s. Yet many family caregivers stumble with regards to accepting or asking for the help they need.

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