Traditions Health

JANUARY 16, 2023

While palliative care can be offered in the home, palliative care is commonly offered as a part of a comprehensive care program, alongside medical care, in an extended healthcare facility or nursing home. Palliative Care: What Is It? Palliative Care: What Is It? Hospice Care: What Is It?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild.

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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

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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Nurse.com

MAY 9, 2022

Nurses have integral roles in emerging healthcare models aimed at meeting the needs of a growing population of medically complex children. And while children with medical complexity represent only a small percentage of the pediatric population overall, they account for the lion’s share of pediatric healthcare spending. “As

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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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Hospice Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Los Angeles Times tied the intense competition for new patients, who generate $154 to $1432 a day in Medicare payments, to the spawn of “a cottage industry of illegal practices, including kickbacks to crooked doctors and recruiters who zero in on prospective patients.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF. I think in that way, what we see with more than half of Medicare beneficiaries dying under the care of a hospice, that expansion was potentially a good thing. Lauren: Hi.

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Kindful Hospice

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We’ll also dispel some of the common myths that surround this important kind of healthcare. To provide for the greatest care for the patient, hospice care is typically offered in the home or administered in a hospital or a nursing home. Hospice care can be covered by Medicare. What is Hospice Care?

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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’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

Members of Congress are raising questions about the continued Medicare certification for new hospices in areas rife with fraud. Investigations have shown that potentially hundreds of newly licensed hospices have bilked Medicare of millions of dollars during the past several years, all while providing egregiously poor care or none at all.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Healthcare services. Nursing services : RNs visit patients in residential homes, nursing homes and hospitals. The Medicare hospice benefit covers over 85% of hospice patients. ” Don’t worry; you’re not alone. Physician services : Physicians help oversee the care of hospice patients. .

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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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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

In addition, the company’s innovation arm Contessa Health continues to make new inroads to expanding emerging high-acuity care models like hospital-at-home services, exploring new payer and provider partnerships and making big investments in palliative care. Before that, he was president of Walgreens Co.,

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. Lauren: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The fact that palliative care was the hardest of questions told me that we have a massive messaging problem in our field.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Mollie Gurian, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge Mandates for hospice workers Health care providers must comply with all applicable pre-PHE requirements after May 11, according to recent guidance from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This could include hospices’ referral partners.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive. Don’t ask anybody.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

I read this Twitter thread by Andy Slavitt, who was a former head of Medicare, Medicaid under Obama, former Biden White House senior advisor, host of In the Bubble Podcast. Let’s focus on outpatient management, nursing home management. And you said, “No, that’s too depressing. That’s not where we are.”

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