Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Established in 1980, Hospice of the Piedmont provides community-based hospice and palliative care in Charlottesville, Virginia, and across 12 surrounding counties.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Transitions is a portfolio company of Transitions Group, which also operates skilled nursing and home health service lines, among others. Meanwhile, to keep patients connected during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care launched a video-chat platform for patients in long-term care settings.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 25, 2024

Death and dying are an intrinsic aspect of our work as nurses, and hospice is a nursing specialty for those who feel especially comfortable and conversant with the care of patients facing the dying process. Palliative care can be provided along with curative treatment and may begin at the time of diagnosis.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Based in Louisville, KY, Pallitus provides palliative care to anyone facing serious illnesses such as cancer, heart failure, COPD and more. 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.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Founded in 1984, CommuniCare Health Services is a family-owned company that provides post-acute services including skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, behavioral health and long-term care. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The hospice and palliative care provider recently received a $50,000 grant from the Oregon Center for Nursing to support the program’s launch, which is dubbed Care for the Caregivers. This is a great opportunity for our nurses to learn new ways to practice self-care while also bringing our teams together.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. With this new agreement, Care Synergy will be taking over those management functions. “We

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2023

While providers and payers do what they can to scale palliative care, ultimately, payment reform will be “critical,” according to Dr. Glen Digwood, division chief of palliative care at Geisinger’s Wyoming Valley Medical Center. Palliative services are offered in a few different settings.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Dubbed Gateways to Care , the campaign is designed to “change the narrative around aging services,” as well as generate career pathways in various senior health sectors, the nonprofit membership organization recently indicated in a statement.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. Mitchell Schwartz, president of clinical enterprise and chief physician executive at Luminis Health.

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The term ‘palliative care’ stirs up different images and thoughts and feelings in people’s minds. Within the healthcare field, the meaning of palliative care has changed over time. Read on to learn more about key questions and answers about palliative care today. In the home.

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The term ‘palliative care’ stirs up different images and thoughts and feelings in people’s minds. Within the healthcare field, the meaning of palliative care has changed over time. Read on to learn more about key questions and answers about palliative care today. In the home.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs. While hospice patients transition to the Medicare benefit for their end-of-life care, some may continue to need their dual-eligibility coverage to address issues that are technically outside the scope of their terminal diagnosis.

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The term ‘palliative care’ stirs up different images and thoughts and feelings in people’s minds. Within the healthcare field, the meaning of palliative care has changed over time. Read on to learn more about key questions and answers about palliative care today. In the home.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The company foresees opportunities to collaborate with other providers in the care continuum, including primary care physicians, home health, and hospice and palliative care organizations, according to CEO and Co-Founder Kris Engskov. “On So how do we provide that infrastructure to keep them at home?”.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

First Docs is a physician-led internal medicine practice that offers a range of health care services and frequently collaborates with hospice, palliative care, and home health providers, among others. CEO Dr. Sanjay Bhatia founded First Docs in 2010, introducing its proprietary 360 Community Medicine Care Model.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. If you decide to pursue another opportunity, you may have massive exposure in terms of sustainability.”

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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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Nurse.com

MARCH 9, 2023

Nursing is a noble profession that plays a critical role in providing healthcare services to people of all ages and in a variety of settings. But nursing is a field that is continuously evolving, and it’s important to keep up with the latest trends to stay ahead of the curve.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

For instance, skilled nursing facilities, hospitals or health systems could require hospice clinicians to be vaccinated before they enter a facility, he said. Some settings may have tighter policies than others, such as skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes, according to Gurian. Additional waivers are also going away.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Patrick Leary, VP, Client Services, Enclara Pharmacia, to learn about the top factors that impact the nurse experience in hospice care. What factors do you think matter most to that nurse experience? Delivering an optimal nurse experience starts with patient care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. For context, listen to the prior podcast with Scott on “ nudges ” and prior podcast with Kate on who should get palliative care. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services. Presently, 80% of CareConnectMD’s patient population is in the long term care setting, according to Phan.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

This means hospices can expect to see heightened auditing and scrutiny of what costs are deemed “unrelated” to end-of-life care, according to Judi Lund Person, vice president of regulatory and compliance for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. “We

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

Hiring an in-home nurse can be a game-changer for family caregivers. They offer much-needed professional care for their loved ones. Here’s what to know before hiring in-home nursing services. Research the Different Types of In-Home Nurses All elderly adults have different health demands and care needs.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

a WTWH Media Company, (“Aging Media”) is pleased to announce the Future Leaders Class of 2023, showcasing the most promising talent in the behavioral health, home health and home care, hospice and palliative care, senior housing, and skilled nursing industries. Aging Media Network, Inc.,

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Hospice of the Midwest’s services within the Marshalltown community include assistance with medical equipment and medication order and delivery, developing patient care plans, providing home assessment consultations and a veteran honors program. The hospice provider also offers pet and music therapy, as well as bereavement support services.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. That was from our what?

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

Ryan Krout: Our clinical pharmacist management program works with hospice leadership to improve quality and control costs, so it’s very much a hybrid role of clinical account management, strategy and patient care. Each of those experiences has helped me grow our program over my four-plus years at Enclara. There are two pieces to that.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

A veteran of the senior services sector, Health has spent his 30-year career as a leader of hospice, senior housing, long term care, and PACE programs, in addition to a stint as a health care lobbyist. I also think that we have to look at the potential new relationships out there with long term care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g. Facilities.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 23, 2023

Hospice care involves palliative care, such as symptom and pain relief, as opposed to curative measures. This type of care enables a patient to live their last days with dignity, support, grace, and with as much purpose as possible. Hospice care can be provided wherever a person resides.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

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. That’s more similar to AAHPM or HPNA on the palliative care side.

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