Minority Nurse

JANUARY 27, 2023

“It’s because we demonstrate our commitment to quality and equitable care and ensuring care is provided in all communities.” In states that have moved to full practice authority, “we’ve seen improved patient care outcomes. We’ve seen an increase in the workforce. We got full prescriptive authority at the end of the 1990s.”

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

“It’s because we demonstrate our commitment to quality and equitable care and ensuring care is provided in all communities.”. In states that have moved to full practice authority, “we’ve seen improved patient care outcomes. FPA, COVID and Care. We’ve seen an increase in the workforce.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

Recently, Oreofe Odejide, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues published an analysis of hospice utilization among patients who died with lymphoma, and they made recommendations for improving patient care. Patients in hospice have fewer rehospitalizations, fewer intensive care unit admissions, and lower costs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contessa has done high acuity care, relatively new to the palliative part of the business, but Amedisys has palliative that stretches over both the traditional hospice side of the business, as well as on the Contessa side. Our health plan serves roughly 35,000 lives, that’s between Medicaid, Medicare, and dual populations.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

That setting has had the greatest impact on my mind and heart, but my experiences in home-based primary care, hospice in the home, skilled care and long-term custodial care have enabled me to further develop my professional skillset. How can we promote this?”

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

Tina Taylor: I’m Tina Taylor, vice president of palliative care at Compassus. I am responsible for our national palliative care programs across the nation. I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. We have 10,000 Americans becoming Medicare-eligible per day.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

I am a huge advocate for SLPs being part of those discussions, and the advanced care planning, and just I think if we can get involved, and have those conversations with patient care partner dyads earlier, we could really have a positive influence on the trajectory of swallowing management over the course of the disease.

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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. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. I think that there are for-profit hospices like VITAS that have been around for a long time that really have the resources to support people whose goals of care are less aligned with the traditional hospice philosophy.

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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. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition.

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Diversity Nursing

MARCH 29, 2021

A diverse workplace is fundamental in providing the best patient care possible. Patients feel more comfortable talking with a Nurse who understands and can relate to them and their issues. history, will likely suffer inadequate care.". Greater inclusion of older Americans in clinical trials.

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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’s just an interference with good patient care. And I think so many of the problems we see with POLST are problems that have to do with people misusing it.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Hospice takes care of people with life-threatening illnesses that are no longer wanting treatment. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Advocate for the CONNECT for Health Act, which would permanently expand access to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries: [link] Much more on this podcast, including puzzling out who the characters in Space Oddity by David Bowie might represent in an extended analogy to telehealth. Alex: Hope so. Alex: And that was during the pandemic.

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