Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A notable trend driving interest from payers and other buyers are data that provide a window into the value proposition of hospice services when it comes to cost-savings and quality, according to Nick Westfall, CEO of VITAS Healthcare, subsidiary of Chemed Corp. In total hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 NYSE: CHE).

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. ” Eric: Nice. So I agree.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

“For example, an analysis by McKinsey & Co found that telehealth accounted for less than 1% of Medicare services before the onset of the pandemic, but by July of 2021, telehealth services accounted for about 13-17% of claims submitted to Medicare. Nurses are the core of healthcare. Arends agrees.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 27, 2023

territories have full, direct healthcare access from NPs. Based in Cleveland, Duffy is an NP in the University Hospitals Geriatric Medical Group and a professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. Now, patients in more than half of the states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song?

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

territories have full, direct healthcare access from NPs. Based in Cleveland, Duffy is an NP in the University Hospitals Geriatric Medical Group and a professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. Now, patients in more than half of the states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. In 2019, PMHNPs provided nearly one-third of mental health prescriber visits of Medicare patients, found a recent study. Healthcare clinicians will have contact with older adults in increasing numbers. contact hours). Psychosis, Mood, and Anxiety.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. There’s a consistency of understanding and approach that I think is helpful.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

My clinical experiences have been foundational to my growth, but my aging health policy experience with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and my time with The California Endowment were equally important. Hartford, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the American Hospital Association.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

Since the healthcare system first started keeping track of this in the 70s, most people died in hospitals. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Additionally, Medicare pays 100% for home hospice with no copays or deductibles. More and more people are choosing to die at home. Bereavement Services.

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Comfort Home Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Here are a few ways home healthcare services can improve the lives of older adults. In fact, research published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that nursing home residents were 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those living elsewhere in their community.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. We have 10,000 Americans becoming Medicare-eligible per day. Taylor: Yes, I think, too, in light of the pandemic, number one, we’ve seen healthcare providers that cannot meet the demands of their patients, so who do they rely on? Taylor: Absolutely.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. I mean, there is so much substance use stigma in healthcare. Katie: Sure.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

She cited a jaw dropping falsehood about what she thought his election would mean for healthcare, and especially healthcare for white people. We spent a while talking about her concerns, and why her healthcare was secure. Her Medicare coverage wasn’t changing, and this truth would bear out for her regardless of her belief.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Alex Lee, who’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Nadine: I think for our geriatric friends that listen to the podcast, there’s a lot of discussion about de-intensifying management as people age. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

If we can get on a path that is a Federal path, where it’s legal, I also can see a world where Medicaid pays for this, where Medicare pays for this, where insurance companies pay for this, in a way that makes it viable for many more people, is my hope. Eric: And thank you all of our listeners for your support.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. I think we shouldn’t be doing advanced care planning before somebody has a serious illness or something that’s likely to end their lives, beyond having a healthcare proxy. It was really ancient times in our field. Susan: Yes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The payer has deployed billions in capital towards high-profile acquisitions aimed at growing Optum’s capabilities, including the purchase of the health care tech firm Change Healthcare and the in-home medical group Landmark Health. NYSE: EHAB) from Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) is a prime example. billion to $1.08

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 5: That we are so integrated into the very fabric of healthcare that it’s a no-brainer in every single discipline because you know what? We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. We are not an extra layer of support. We are actually the integrator.

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Diversity Nursing

MARCH 29, 2021

To combat ageism in healthcare organizations, there should be DEI policies that include a focus on age. It's often healthcare providers attribute signs and symptoms of illness to normal aging, missing important indicators that need to be addressed. How You Can Reduce Ageism at Work. hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? Amber Barnato appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Sarguni: And I think the inadequacies of the Medicare hospice benefit really come into play here because a lot of times people are not sure if they want to get more cancer treatments. That’s the problem.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Then there was that New England Journal catalyst study that showed that the healthcare executives thought that 60% of the people in their hospitals who could benefit from palliative care weren’t getting it. Medicare, on their brochures, frail hands. In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

And so all of us in the healthcare profession, in in the he caring profession, I like, that’s my new thing, health, right? We can guide them to have a more total experience without the denial that that goes through our healthcare system. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s not the tool itself, it’s that doctors are handing out POLSTs to people at they’re welcome to Medicare or annual wellness exams. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. And if we’re evaluated on the wrong things, healthcare is going to go down the drain.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher. Joel may know. Joel: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

But I think that as Ruth was saying, while the prior Jumpstart was quite effective at both increasing frequency of and quality of both care conversations in the outpatient space, it was just too labor-intensive to think about implementing widely across a healthcare system. I think you had to be age over 55. So within those variables.

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