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. She will also serve as a mentor to palliative care teams, the company indicated in an announcement.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Though revenue streams for palliative care are often shallow, these services can generate sustainable growth for providers who can play their cards right with payers. When it comes to palliative care, billing teams need to have a firm grasp on the different levels of codes to apply when submitting claims, she continued.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Strains on reimbursement, referrals and staffing represent the biggest obstacles to palliative care providers’ viability and growth. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services.

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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. Hospice providers also navigate a number of challenges when it comes to the varying laws and ethical considerations involved with patient admission, goals of care and decision making, she indicated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

Lagging supportive services around social determinants of health and limited access to hospice and palliative care are driving disparities among rural family caregivers. Family caregivers in rural areas are more likely to experience social determinants of health that negatively affect the provision of palliative and end of life care.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

A recent study of nursing students providing palliative care in a Thailand-based intensive care unit (ICU) indicates a need to include exposure to these services in medical education and training. The researchers performed in-depth interviews with each nursing student throughout a 12-week period of providing palliative care in the ICU.

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Hospice Red River Valley

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Angela Maddock , RN, CHPN, has successfully passed the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN®) examination through the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center. Maddock works as an Admissions RN at Hospice of the Red River Valley, and cares for patients in and around Fargo, N.D.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice providers in facility-based settings may be underutilizing Medicare’s service intensity add-on (SIA). Researchers analyzed 2020 claims data to identify associations between SIA utilization and hospice Medicare beneficiaries’ characteristics such as site of service, level of care and length of stay, among others. fewer minutes.

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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.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Hospice and palliative care nurses work in a care giving space that is often difficult and foreign for most families, friends, and other caregivers. Hospice care’s goal is different from the other medical care that a patient has been receiving for their illness.

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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.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice CEO Retires Lockport, N.Y.-based based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. Data on CON laws has taken on new significance as regulators zero in on the hospice space.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

Stakeholders in the hospice space are optimistic that Congress will pass the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). But the intention is that when things do move slowly, it’s to ensure that we do them right,” Hoover told Hospice News.

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Hospice Red River Valley

MARCH 28, 2022

Katrina Zierden , CNA, CHPNA, has successfully passed the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing Assistant (CHPNA®) examination through the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center. Zierden works as a CNA at Hospice of the Red River Valley, and cares for patients in and around Detroit Lakes, Minn.

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HPNA podcast

JANUARY 15, 2024

About Amisha: Amisha Parekh de Campos, PhD, MPH, RN, CHPN has a joint appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing, and Quality and Education Coordinator of the Middlesex Health Hospice Program, Middletown, CT. Amisha was also featured in the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.

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HPNA podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2021

. Palliative Nursing Acute to Post Acute Transitions in Care: Challenges and Opportunities. Dr. Gentry is a nurse practitioner with the Duke University Palliative Care Consult Service, faculty at the Duke University School of Nursing, and a member of the Duke Hospital Ethics Committee.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In hospice, clinicians in the field have the closest relationships with patients and families, giving them direct insight into their needs and the challenge of providing care when many operators are understaffed. Akunesokwu (Neso) Obiora entered the palliative care field nearly 20 years ago as a hospice aide.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

There are places where there are not a lot of physicians, nurse practitioners or physician assistants, but where there might be more people like social workers.” The post Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access appeared first on Hospice News. The expense can range from $10 to $50 per patient, she added.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Palliative care can be equally rewarding and challenging. So much of who people are impacts their experience of the palliative journey. It should be no question, then, that minority nurses are an invaluable resource at this time. Yet, the current state of palliative care suggests that the industry doesn’t quite reflect this.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. These are big trials in palliative care. That’s a pretty big palliative care study.

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HPNA podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Reinke is the Claire Dumke Ryberg, RN, Presidential Endowed Chair for Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of Utah, College of Nursing. In this role, she works to increase the palliative care workforce in rural and underserved populations by educating professionals and laypersons to deliver primary palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The post GeriPal #HPMParty at the 2023 AAHPM / HPNA Meeting in Montreal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Also, if you have trainees coming to the meeting, make sure you send them the invite. The more, the merrier.

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AJN Off the Charts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The immense experiences of suffering, grief, loneliness, and burnout among nurses today call for a reexamination not only of our care delivery systems, but also of the personal frameworks through which we approach our nursing practice. Palliative nursing and ‘a deep examination of priorities.’

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Hospice 101

JUNE 19, 2020

Hospice CNAs (who are known in the hospice world as HHAs or Home Health Aides) are incredibly special individuals and members of the hospice team who provide gentle, compassionate, end-of-life cares for hospice patients. June 18-24, 2020 is the week we celebrate Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs).

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HPNA podcast

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This episode of Palliative Perspective introduces Sarah Potter, the Health Policy Specialist for the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. This episode speaks on why it is so important for members to share their stories and help advocate for the population palliative and hospice healthcare providers serve.

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Pallimed

JANUARY 28, 2021

by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) Most palliative care teams love to have medical students on service, but the access may be variable. Some schools make palliative care rotations mandatory, some optional, while others make it hard to find or "build your own." People laugh and turn away. " Give me a couple years.

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HPNA podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For the last 20 years, Shari has worked at Hospice of the Valley, in Phoenix, Arizona, as an RNCM in Home Hospice. Currently, Shari is the President of the Phoenix Chapter of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. About Deb: Deb Bershad is a nurse with diverse experience.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. Recognizing challenges and risks.

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NHPCO

MARCH 4, 2022

(Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today announced that Rory will join the organization as the Vice President of Palliative and Advanced Care. At the same time, NHPCO is the organization that can lead the effort to define palliative care for the health care sector and for consumers.

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Hospice 101

MAY 24, 2020

Memorial Day is also a good reminder for hospice team members to take the time to listen to, and allow, your patients to share their military service experiences, as a part of their life review. When I first started in hospice nursing eight years ago, I didn’t know much about the military service.

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HPNA podcast

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Cindy is an expert-level advanced palliative nurse practitioner and shares with our listeners her decades-long career journey in hospice and palliative nursing. Cindy began her nursing career at the staff level in acute high-level patient care and then transitioned into a clinical hospice nursing role.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Throughout the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has granted hospice patients and providers telehealth flexibilities which have expanded access to essential post-acute care and protected the health and wellbeing of the most medically vulnerable populations. Hospice Action Network.

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HPNA podcast

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This episode of HPNA Podcast Corner welcomes guest Mary Kenney to share with us insight into a day in the life of a certified hospice aid. . . Mary is a certified hospice and palliative care nurse aid who has cared for those with life-limiting illnesses for over 20 years. . . About Mary . About Mary .

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You can follow Jo on X: @josmith175 Dr Michael Tatterton is a Clinical Associate Professor, University of Bradford and the Clinical Director, Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice. 2002) Dignity conserving care: a new model for palliative care. Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care, 5(1), doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2001012 Rodriguez.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). Good review on buprenorphine for pain.

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HPNA podcast

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In our first episode of Podcast Corner, the Hospice and Palliative Nurse's Association's Director of Professional Practice, Connie Dahlin, reflects on her career-long journey as a hospice and palliative nurse.

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