Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

She is a registered nurse who has also served as a hospice case manager, nursing aide, director of nursing and regional director. Pagliaro is also medical director of palliative medicine at Jefferson Health East and serves on its ethics and cancer committees.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

We’re now seeing a little bit more reach into the skilled nursing facilities that provide palliative care as well. Palliative care services have become an attractive area in particular for emergency and urgent care providers in hospital and health system settings, according to Dr. Roderick Bennett, medical director of SOS Mobile Medical Care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake’s Nursing, Clinical Advocacy Director Aims to Improve Access Hospice of the Chesapeake has named Dr. Rachel Sherman as its new director of nursing and clinical advocacy. She has additionally become a supportive care nurse at the Maryland-based hospice and palliative care organization.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

The provider’s palliative care team includes a physician medical director, social worker and nurse practitioners who now offer in-home palliative care to adult patients 18 and older facing a serious illness. “As Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

With nominations in the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the program showcases exemplary character and performance of frontline workers across the care continuum.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Contessa’s specialties are high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. That model is a mix of in-person and virtual visits, nurse practitioners, RNs, social workers and community health workers,” Baumgardner said at the NHPCO conference. “I The wild card, however, is Optum.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hospice nurses pointed to this issue as their number-one concern about their jobs in a recent survey by The Amity Group. Nurses are saying, ‘I love being a hospice nurse. ’ I think we’re losing a lot of nurses because of this because their family is so unhappy.” NYSE: CHE). “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Prior to joining Treasure Coast Hospice, he practiced family medicine at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, Gateway Medical Group and Jupiter Medical Center. He also served as medical director at skilled nursing facility provider Life Care Center of Port St.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989. For individuals who take part in the program, they are required to be visited by a nurse and a social worker once per month.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

In addition to The Denver Hospice, its affiliates include Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA), Pathways, and Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, among others. The hiring of Lopez as president comes about six months after The Denver Hospice also named a new medical director in Dr. Robert Howe.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Valley Health’s palliative care model includes a full interdisciplinary team, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, social workers, chaplains and volunteers. Valley Health currently offers palliative care in a number of settings, including inpatient, outpatient, subacute medical facilities and the home.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Because if I leave you on that heart medicine, that cost anywhere from $1,000 a month up to $20,000 a month, depending on which brand of medication it is,” a hospice nurse speaking on condition of anonymity told Hospice News. Everything is based on cost. A medicine that will keep that patient alive for probably six months.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For more than 40 years, Community Hospice has grown from an inspired idea by two registered nurses to a respected and leading provider of vital service for those with serious and life-limiting illness in the Central Valley area. In her new role, she’ll oversee Trustbridge’s medical staff providing home- and facility-based hospice care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I knew that if we could put a nurse practitioner with a patient earlier in the prognosis, they would move through the continuum of care with that patient and create a report. Our program is staffed by nurse practitioners and social workers, under the oversight of our medical director.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. That model is a mix of in-person and virtual visits, nurse practitioners, RNs, social workers and community health workers,” Baumgardner said. “I

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High Peaks Hospice

DECEMBER 28, 2023

High Peaks Hospice is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to deliver and support clinical care for our patients. Position Description: The Hospice Nurse Practitioner works in collaboration with the hospice team to provide hospice care services to patients and families in a variety of patient care settings.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“There can be long hours, higher caseloads, patient/caregiver heightened emotions that lead to higher levels of stress than in other medical care settings.” Trinh, team physician and medical director designee; Mary Grace Holvenstot, senior human resources generalist; and Shelia Robinson, human resources generalist.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 22, 2023

Scott Stewart, DNP, APNC, CNL, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program supervisor at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center, co-authored a first-of-its-kind textbook, “A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support: A Primer for Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Clinicians.” Surgical Director of the VAD program.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He went on to become the organization’s medical director. “ In addition to his role at Faith Hospice, Mulder is executive director of the Trillium Institute, medical director for Holland Home and the director of the Division of Palliative Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Dr. Leena Dutta, medical director of hospice and in-home palliative care for the center, joined the program in May, 2022 and oversaw the initiative. The Northeast Georgia model provides a nurse practitioner, who works under the advice of a physician, and a social worker. That’s when we started to revamp the program.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The grant will also support efforts to address social determinants of health, according to Dr. Heidi Young, associate chief medical officer for Capital Caring and medical director of the Primary Care at Home program. The dollar amount was undisclosed. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Issues around defining criteria for terminal anorexia can complicate end-of-life experiences among patients and families, Berg said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“We were seeing retention as being harder and harder, competing with other organizations for doctors, nurses, CNAs and other clinicians,” Nathan Adelson Hospice CEO and President Karen Rubel previously told Hospice News. Registered nurses also saw high turnover rates at 25.15% turnover and accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. for nurses.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recruiting and retaining palliative care professionals can be a difficult feat for organizations, in part because not enough medical and nursing students are exposed to palliative care during their education. It’s about working together to assess the needs with wraparound care.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

It would also remove three nursing home items from the survey, revise the existing Hospice Team Communication and Getting Hospice Care Training measures and add a new Care Preferences measure. This includes the addition of an email invitation to a web survey, with follow-up by mail to non-responders.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

If restrictions eased around controlled substances, then hospice providers might be more open to their use, according to Dr. Karl Steinberg, medical director for Hospice by the Sea. He is also CEO of California-based Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc. I don’t see a lot of focus on the possible harms.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other professionals operate within their own spaces, despite professing to be part of a unified team. A Chief Medical Director and the Nursing Director reached out to me for help to improve the relationships between their physicians and nurses.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Hospice News recently sat down with pediatrician Dr. Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz, medical director of HopeHealth’s pediatric supportive services. We’ve since added more nurses and assigned backup nurses for each patient to have someone more familiar with the patient and who has developed a relationship with them.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

“In our NHE accounting, you will find spending on palliative care or hospice care in the hospital, nursing home and home health care sectors. Nationally, registered nurses saw average salary increases of 5.95% in 2022. Medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%. ” In 2022, CMS paid $23.9

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

For the past several years, hospice teams at Adventist’s Mendocino location were limited to one nurse and volunteers who provided emotional support, according to an announcement by Dr. William Miller, chief of staff at Adventist Health Mendocino Coast hospital in Ft. Bragg, California. Hospice utilization reached 46.1%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Furthermore, nearly half (49.4%) indicated they had never met with a palliative care physician or nurse (58.4%) as part of their overall cancer care experience. More than half (58%) of these cancer patients indicated that an oncologist recommendation would have led them to seek palliative care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

I’ve run companies, been a clinical director and helped start hospices and a palliative program. The organization has only had two executive directors, and it was established in 1985. A registered nurse started the company back in 1985, and it was 100% volunteer-based. Even the nurses just volunteered their time.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Shelise Valentine, RNC, MSN, C-EFM, CPPS, CPHRM, is the Director of Clinical Education, Healthcare Risk Advisors, part of TDC Group and chairs nursing, co-chairs obstetric and simulation initiatives, and directs risk management and obstetric education for insured hospital clients to improve patient safety and reduce malpractice risk.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

The company was established in concert with his wife, Janet Seebert, director of nursing at Stoneridge Hospice, and his niece, Patti Bratzel, a registered nurse who became co-owner, and executive director. My wife was a nurse in emergency medicine for several years, and my niece was a long-time hospice nurse.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The value-based oncology provider has a team of nurses and care professionals that support roughly 3,000 patients and families navigating cancer and serious illness.

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