Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Finding the right balance of support and career development for bereavement care professionals is key to recruitment and retention as hospices combat labor strains. Grief care specialists take on challenging roles as they help families navigate the financial and emotional aspects of a loved one’s loss. The weight of providing bereavement care can take a heavy toll on staff and impact turnover rates, according to Jennifer Kincaid, chief people officer at Hospice of the Piedmont.

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Aging Life Care Association

JANUARY 9, 2024

Severe winter weather is descending across the United States, which greatly impacts the safety and well-being of the elderly, especially when the weather event is unexpected or comes fast. Here are some tips from the experts in aging well® to help your older loved one prep for winter weather. Before a Storm • Stay informed: … Continue reading Preparing for Winter Weather with Older Loved Ones → The post Preparing for Winter Weather with Older Loved Ones appeared first on Aging Life C

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 10, 2024

What we all feared just happened when Claudine Gay, the first Black president of Harvard University, announced that she was stepping down after only six months on the job—the shortest stint ever for the university’s president position. The latest news about Claudine Gay admittedly dredged up some all too familiar and saddening experiences for me and many executives like me when I heard the news.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 7, 2024

By Shannon O’Rourke, 3 rd year, BSc Nursing Studies (Mental Health) As a student mental health nurse, it is always good to meet other student nurses, and what better way than attending the Student Future Mental Health Nursing Conference in Sheffield ( @FutureMHN_Conf ). Fortunately, Glasgow Caledonian University funded for myself and another student nurse to attend.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

An increasingly diverse base of health care providers have taken an interest in the palliative care space, a trend that could be indicative of how strategic growth is taking shape in the field. As they build out their palliative care programs, many of these organizations are pursuing partnerships to foster coordination and growth. A range of palliative care joint ventures , care collaborations and partnerships have evolved in recent years as more health care providers work to address the needs o

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 8, 2024

Continued professional development is crucial to help nurses grow their skills, improve job satisfaction, and prevent burnout. Nurses working in hospitals that implement burnout-reduction strategies — including professional mobility opportunities, wage increases, and educational opportunities for learning and leadership — typically experience a 20% decrease in burnout and stay in their roles for longer (3.5 years on average, compared to just 2.9 years for nurses without access to burnout-reducti

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 11, 2024

Nashville, TN – Traditions Health of Myrtle Beach, SC has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Hospice Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a healthcare organization’s commitment to providing safe and quality patient care. The Myrtle Beach hospice branch underwent a rigorous, unannounced onsite review.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving into 2024, more hospices see joint ventures or similar partnerships to be a major growth engine. Nearly half of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase, said that joint ventures and partnerships were the growth tactics they planned to pursue the most this year. More than 62% of the survey participants were c-suite leaders, vice presidents or directors.

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Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Learn how to manage dementia care in the kitchen. You can feel the warmth in any kitchen. It’s the place hungry kids rush to as soon as they get home from school. It’s the spot family members gather to prepare holiday meals together. It’s also a place to warm up a cup of milk and find some quiet, reflective solace when sleep is elusive. For someone living with dementia, the kitchen can often be the site of heartfelt memories like these.

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NHPCO

JANUARY 12, 2024

For Immediate Release January 12, 2024 MedPAC Commissioners Abandon their Previous Recommendation to Cut Payment Cap (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today commented on the hospice implications of the public meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) held yesterday, as well as MedPAC’s hospice workplan , which has been presented at previous MedPAC meetings.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nashville, TN – Traditions Health of Greenville, SC has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Hospice Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a healthcare organization’s commitment to providing safe and quality patient care. The Greenville hospice branch underwent a rigorous, unannounced onsite review.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has voted to recommend a freeze on hospice payment increases starting in 2025. However, the commission pulled back on prior calls for cuts to the aggregate payment cap. While MedPAC cannot implement policy or payment rate changes, it does make annual recommendations to Congress and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Elaine Mansfield

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 7, thick wet snow fell for the first time this winter. I wasn’t worried. I knew my friend and helper Matt had his eye on the weather. When my husband Vic had lymphoma in 2006, he was too sick to split firewood, so Vic looked for help to take care of our property. He found Matt on Craig’s List. Matt had just moved to Ithaca from Pennsylvania with his wife and young family.

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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 11, 2024

By Cagkan/Adobe Stock Reading the article by Russell-Babin and colleagues in the December 2023 issue of AJN made me grateful for all the work that went into developing the nursing implementation science (IS) program at Inova. As a nurse working at this health care system, I’d like to share how I benefited from being in the first cohort of nurses trained and engaged in IS over the last three years.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nashville, TN – Traditions Health of Summerville, SC has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Hospice Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a healthcare organization’s commitment to providing safe and quality patient care. The Summerville hospice branch underwent a rigorous, unannounced onsite review.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Empath Health has opened a new PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) center in Tampa, Florida. The center will operate under the organization’s Empath LIFE (Living Independence for the Elderly) brand. This is the second PACE center that the nonprofit senior care health system has opened and the first such program in its home county, Hillsborough.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 10, 2024

During the most challenging time of year for patients and their families in the University of Iowa Hospital’s Pediatric Emergency Department , ED nurse Joe Schmuecker, RN, has gone above and beyond to spread a little holiday cheer over the last five years. Every Christmas, Schmuecker sets up a homemade red mailbox for children in the pediatric department to send letters to the North Pole.

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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photo courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs The intersection of military service and environmental exposures has become an increasingly critical area of concern. Environmental factors affect the health and well-being of military personnel in complex and multifaceted ways, and ill and injured military veterans may find their high aspirations undermined by mental and physical ailments that significantly affect their quality of life.

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Responsive Home Care

JANUARY 9, 2024

By the time we reach our golden years, we’ve had many years of building deep connections with family and friends. These bonds are crucial to our quality of life, and when they are severed, it inevitably leads to feelings of deep loss. You may feel hopeless to help an older adult who is grieving, but […] The post How to Help an Older Adult Who Is Grieving appeared first on Responsive Home Care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

The home health and hospice provider New Day Healthcare has acquired Texas-based Compassion Hospice for an undisclosed amount. The transaction expands New Day’s footprint to 29 locations, concentrated in Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Illinois. The company’s nearly 6,500 employees serve close to 100,000 patients annually across all of its business lines, including home health, hospice, pediatrics, clinical decision support and personal care.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 12, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Nondepolarizing agents act in a competitive manner to block the effects of ACh at the neuromuscular junction. Drugs in this class include pancuronium, atracurium, vecuronium, mivacurium and rocuronium.

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Palliverse

JANUARY 10, 2024

Photo by Jovi Waqa on Unsplash I make an effort to greet patients in their own language as often as I can. Over the years I have learned many different greetings. Some of them are used frequently and I can now pronounce them fluently. Others are used more rarely but a thirty-second internet search can provide me with enough information to say hello.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2024

As a hospice nurse, a challenging and unavoidable aspect of your role is navigating end-of-life conversations. It’s not always easy to know what to say or how much to say. These discussions require a balance of empathy, honesty, and sensitivity. In this article, we’ll explore the challenges of these conversations and some key strategies to help new hospice nurses.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nurses at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart Home Care Services have voted to authorize a strike, citing low wages and staffing strains. PeaceHealth operates two hospice locations in Oregon, along with six others in Alaska and Washington state. Roughly 90 of its home health and hospice registered nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) recently voted in favor of strike, though ultimately decided to postpone that action as wage negotiations continue.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 11, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Decreased pseudocholinesterase levels can occur in hepatic disease, anemia, renal failure, organophosphate poisoning, pregnancy, chronic cocaine use, advanced age, bronchogenic carcinoma and connective tissue disorders.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The plan of a healthcare consulting firm (the “Firm”) to give gift cards to physicians in exchange for referrals to new customers does not violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (the “AKS”), according to an Advisory Opinion from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”). The Firm provides practice optimization services including data analytics services, electronic health record consulting services, compliance monitoring, and assistance with M

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Today's Caregiver

JANUARY 9, 2024

Alzheimer’s Foundation of America informs individuals about the importance of regular memory screenings, invites people to schedule a free screening appointment through the National Memory Screening Program

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Private equity firms in the hospice space are adapting their “roll-up” strategies as economic uncertainties persist. Roll ups are a common approach to private equity investment. This occurs when a firm buys a larger platform company and then gradually acquires smaller organizations to foster growth. But in 2023, deal volume slowed across the board. While the slowdown applies to all buyers, the decline in private equity transactions is particularly noteworthy because they were among the most aggr

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 10, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Prolonged paralysis after the administration of succinylcholine may occur in clinical conditions that result in decreased pseudocholinesterase levels and subsequent decreased metabolism of succinylcholine.

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Palliverse

JANUARY 9, 2024

Photo by Ryan Franco on Unsplash When we first met her she was only four months old. She didn’t have much hair. She had bright eyes which were interested in everything around her. If you looked at her and tried to interact with her she would give you a big smile. During her dad’s first admission, we saw her almost every day during the weeks she was there with her family.

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Corecubed Care Marketing Solutions

JANUARY 8, 2024

Now that we’ve turned the calendar page and become somewhat accustomed to replacing “2023” with “2024,” it’s time to focus on goals for the year ahead. Specifically, what aspects of your home care marketing strategy could use some recalibration? What worked well for you last year—and what didn’t? Prepare to Embrace Change Let’s face it: change is hard.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) subsidiary Optum Health has emerged as one of the largest players in home-based care, primary care and other health care services. Nevertheless, the company sees vast market opportunities on the road ahead. Optum Health currently serves more than 4.1 million patients in value-based care arrangements across all of its clinical business lines.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 9, 2024

Category: Fundamentals A major consideration in the use of succinylcholine is its propensity to cause hyperkalemia. This electrolyte disturbance is believed to occur secondary to asynchronous depolarization of muscle cells and resulting cellular injury.

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Changing Lives Podcast

JANUARY 8, 2024

Many times when people die, all of their friends, family, and acquaintances come to the funeral to pay their respects and say goodbye for the final time. But you may be thinking to yourself, if I was dying, I wouldn’t want everyone that’s ever cared about me to gather after I die. I want to see them and say goodbye to them in person while I’m still alive!

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Hospice Promise

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we step into the new year, we understand that it can be bittersweet for those who’ve lost a loved one. This year, let’s honor the memories and lessons our loved ones have gifted us. Their presence may have changed, but their impact remains woven into our lives. We’re here to offer comfort, understanding, and the assurance that it’s okay to embrace the new while cherishing the past.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Some hospice providers have hit roadblocks when it comes to navigating needs determination methodologies certificate of need (CON) laws in certain states, citing outdated processes for assessing underserved populations. Determining an unmet need for hospice can be a challenging feat that includes many variables beyond the scope of some current CON policies in place, according to Heart’n Soul Hospice COO Kevin Allison.

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