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Valley Health System, Family of Caring Launch Palliative Care Partnership

Hospice News

New Jersey-based Valley Health System is partnering with Family of Caring Healthcare to offer palliative services to their patients. Family of Caring Healthcare System includes 10 health and rehabilitation centers that provide subacute care and rehabilitative services, assisted living, and long-term care.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

Hospice News

In that role, she oversaw financial and clinical operations and service outcomes across the health system’s network of five hospitals, nine long-term care facilities and its hospice and palliative care services. Carl Derrick as medical director.

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First Docs to Expand Nationally With Private Equity Backing

Hospice News

In addition to its own physician offices and hospitals, the company provides care in clinics, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, and long-term care acute hospitals. The company’s clinicians monitor patients to determine when they become eligible for hospice or palliative care, Bhatia said.

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Telehealth, Social Determinants Programs Propel Pallitus Health Partners to Double Census Growth

Hospice News

With a service area that includes 41 counties throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana, Pallitus is focused on helping people live better and longer with quality palliative care programs. Dr. Dustin Dillon, medical director of palliative care services at Pallitus, said it was important for the palliative care provider to stand on its own.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Eric: So as long as Medicare is not paying for the… Or Medicaid, I guess, for nursing. Long-term care. For the long term. The MVP for them is care navigator, medical director, or a clinician who could be advanced care practice PA or a physician who have one of three factor.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?