Hospice News
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director Agape Care Group, a portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners has appointed Kari Bradford, a doctor of nursing practice, as its new palliative medical director. The new hires follow the retirement of hospice physician Dr. Mark Silver.
Hospice News
APRIL 12, 2024
Hospice providers navigate various challenges when addressing unmet needs and goals of care among patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa. Additionally, patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa often have longer inpatient admissions and a history of various medical treatments, the research found.
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Hospice News
APRIL 10, 2023
Identifying patients and finding referral sources are two challenging issues when it comes to reaching homeless populations in need of hospice. Hospices are challenged to care for patients who are unhoused, as some living situations can pose safety risks and make it difficult to provide quality care effectively, Snodgrass indicated.
Hospice News
JUNE 1, 2022
In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).
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