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The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

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However, did you know that only the hospice medical director can recertify your patient’s eligibility ? While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria. Yep, you heard me right.

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Hospice Nurses: Admission Tips You Can Use Right Now

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It is also smart to know the generic names of medications. Also, what medications are likely to be discontinued once the patient is enrolled in hospice. For example, the medical director may want to stop vitamins and supplements. They told the family that the hospice would supply the tube feedings.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

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He’s a palliative care doctor and he is Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care. And for Matt, when you’re giving people the advice, I was listening to one about how do you talk to somebody about a feeding tube that’s for pleasure? Does that sound about right? Great title.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

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Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . And I became the medical director for that program, and so I was watching and learning as the hospital was taken over by AIDS patients and the whole city was consumed by this epidemic. We could have talked for hours. It’s bigger.

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