Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). They included VA hospice encounters in the outcome but not enrollment in a home hospice program, nursing home hospice center or Medicare-paid hospice.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

Texas-headquartered hospice and home health company Elara Caring has inked a deal to acquire Assisted Daily Living, Inc., In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health. a Rhode Island-based provider.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. Why Beth? This is Eric Widera. John: Nice to be here.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

The Roles of Medical Professionals in Hospice Care Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on providing comfort and support to patients and families during the end-of-life process. While it is often provided in a hospice facility or home, many medical professionals are often involved in the care of these individuals.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Finding the balance between compassion and the clock is critical for hospice nurses. Hospice is often portrayed as serene and peaceful. For hospice nurses, mastering time management is an essential skill for long-term success. One routine that I like is leaving my hospice bag and shoes in the same place every day.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. On the other hand, the trend of more Americans dying at home also presents challenges for families that we may have not seen for a century. Hospice Supports Families as Well as Patients.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Have you ever wondered why there’s so much hype over hospice CAHPS scores? This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. As a hospice nurse, you might not always understand how this relates to your work. Include the Hospice IDG.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Why Hospice Documentation Matters. First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Shining Light Hospice

JANUARY 6, 2022

Hospice for ALS Patients. As there is no cure for it, once symptoms have progressed into late stages, hospice care for ALS is the best option to maintain patient comfort. Here is a general overview of the disease and the benefits of hospice care for ALS. Symptoms present as hand weakness or loss of hand and finger dexterity.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). To resolve this issue, the TEP was presented with multiple options including. of 6) of 1.5″

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Where Hospice Patients Die. While nearly 80% of people say they want to die at home , only 20% do. Believe it or not, many people still end up dying in acute care settings or nursing homes. However, as a home hospice nurse, you are more likely to perform death visits in the patient’s personal residence or nursing home.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 19, 2023

Every Path Is Different Sandra Nosek, MSN, RN , has been a nurse for over 30 years with experience in management, staff development, QA wound care, long-term critical acute care, hospice, and skilled nursing facilities. She recently obtained an RN case manager position with a small hospice in her community. “

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Nurses are everywhere. The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. Nurses don't shy away from responsibility — they embrace it. Nurses run towards the metaphorical fire. They are legion.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s why falls are the most common cause of nursing home placement. If no obvious injury is present, have the person roll onto their side. Reduced muscle strength and coordination, too, make it harder to recover from a loss of balance. Getting up too quickly or in the wrong way could make an injury worse.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

AUGUST 2, 2020

In other bullying scenarios, r esidents may silently tolerate repeated and sometimes deliberate incidents of being served cold food, late food, no food, and even damaged food, such as this badly butchered birthday cake that was rudely presented to a resident on her birthday by a staff member.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 27, 2022

Diverging a bit from the Hospice theme, in episode 44, Mitch explores another form of end-of-life care and the role of a "Death Doula". And welcome to Living With Hospice. Even words like cancer or heart disease or casket, or hospice are fear triggers in most people. All right, so what does that mean to you and I?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story. Our mission is to help them tell it. Bennett, C.R.,

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Heather: Thanks Alex.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

I once had a patient in the ICU at Moffitt who had had a stroke and was facing, not recovered, going to a nursing home with a feeding tube. People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course.

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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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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2022

Private equity firms are pouring investment dollars into hospices at a record pace. Despite a cool down in the hospice mergers and acquisitions market during the first quarter of 2022, private equity firms have stayed aggressive on deals. Private equity investors are likely to stay bullish on hospice.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. Home with a 75 year old mom who can’t really move them?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. Eric: And how is assisted living community different than a nursing home? One is they’re not licensed as a nursing home, and they’re not federally regulated. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. Eric: I’m on hospice and palliative care right now on service. First, Black and Latinx persons experienced much higher rates of mortality than other groups.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Yeah.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Hospice for Dementia. Let’s take a closer look at this condition, what hospice is , and what the benefits of hospice care for dementia-related diagnoses are. When certain criteria are met, a patient with dementia can qualify for hospice benefits. Speech may or may not be present. What is Hospice?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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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. GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And my husband and I moved to Key West in 2005, and he went to work for a certified home health agency and hospice organization down there. Like, Boy, wish I was home. It’s home care’s a lonely business. And at home healthcare they do generally mm-hmm. <Affirmative>

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

At that time, I was working on the opposition because my view was it was a false choice for people until they had a full array of services, including palliative care that was really not hospice and palliative care weren’t very well known or available in the early ’90s. They’re older and frailer than a nursing home client is.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And my husband and I moved to Key West in 2005, and he went to work for a certified home health agency and hospice organization down there. Like, Boy, wish I was home. It’s home care’s a lonely business. And at home healthcare they do generally mm-hmm. <Affirmative>

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

The pandemic erased that complacency and enhanced education for nurses and infection control in unique ways. The renewed focus on how infection control in nursing is presented to healthcare professionals is among the major lessons learned since 2020. It is in our patient homes, nursing homes, some acute rehab centers, hospices.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I spent some time at the branch level and then became a corporate level clinical educator for a national home health organization. And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. Suddenly people were realizing that, oh, you know, people wanted to stay home.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

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