Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

Mourning Dove Medical Mourning Dove Medical Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry What drew you to the hospice and palliative care field? I actually became interested in end-of-life care in medical school. They can do presentations at places like assisted living facilities and senior communities.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. You have to find ways to best present yourself and your services appropriately, then provide services at a high quality level. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

In Accord’s production of “Lily,” a member of the local Rotary Club portrayed the title character with a hospice medical director in the role of Joe. When you have a new group [of employees] come in, you can present this because it creates conversation,” she said. It brought in “a good-size crowd,” according to Turner.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. This is such a big issue.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. Social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly wage hike, and medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%, the report indicated. The shortage isn’t going away.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 27, 2023

Thomson, DO MBA HMDC FACOI FAAHPM As one of AAHPM’s delegates, I had the privilege of representing the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) 2023 Annual Meeting held in Chicago in mid-June. A few of the arguments presented against the resolution were that: 1.)

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Our chief medical director, Dr. Hanan Budeiri (known to all of us as Dr. B) donated refreshments for a reception. Nancy’s mother died peacefully the next morning, knowing her daughter treasured her enough to make sure she was present at such a key life milestone. Our thanks to everyone who helped make this possible.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

We have a wide ranging conversation that touches on how to place aging, disability, and multimorbidity in the context of serious illness conversations, “striving toward normal,” stoicism, existentialism, psychedelics, the goals of medicine, medical aid in dying and more. Bill: Thank you. Brad: I completely forgot about that.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Nate Chin, who is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, where he is medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease research center and runs a large study in Wisconsin called the RAP Study studying Alzheimer’s Disease. Welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Sharon.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

This can result in patients coming to hospice later in the course of their illnesses, according to Lee, who also serves on the board of directors at the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN). But clinical education will need a much larger boost to ensure a sustainable workforce, according to many providers.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. We present it to CMMI, to CMS, whoever will listen to us, people on The Hill. Why do we need a story?” Diane: Yeah.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. I’m Dr. Daniel Miller and one of the medical directors of Hospice of the North Coast. Daniel Miller, M.D., video transcription: Hi everybody.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. I’m Dr. Daniel Miller and one of the medical directors of Hospice of the North Coast. Daniel Miller, M.D., video transcription: Hi everybody.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

” How hard would it be for every medical director, every director of nurses, every administrator to know the first and last name of every CNA who works in that building? From a medical director standpoint, how do you think about that? It needs to be presented in a way that they can understand.

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