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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.
Shining Light Hospice
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
The focus of hospice is to help each person to live out their remaining days with peace, comfort and dignity and comfort care is aimed at ensuring a patient maintains quality of life and that all symptoms are managed. The physician will oversee all care while on hospice. Chaplains are also available for spiritual care.
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? So I think that there are a lot of different ways that OT, PT, Speech Language Pathologists bring to patient care.
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. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home.
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms.
Hospice Nurse Hero
MARCH 2, 2022
First, CAHPS stands for Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control.
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