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Hope Produces Town Hall Webinars

Hope Hospice

This free webinar series will be produced via Zoom ( get a free account ). Webinar logon details: [link]. Panelists: Jatinder Marwaha, MD, FACP, HMCD, Hope Hospice Medical Director. Kuljeet Multani, MD, HMCD, Hope Hospice Associate Medical Director. Webinar logon details: [link].

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How Hospices Can Improve Health Equity for Rural-Based LGBTQ+ Seniors

Hospice News

Jennifer Ritzau, vice president of medical staff services at HopeHealth, a Rhode Island-based hospice, palliative and home care provider. She also serves as medical director of palliative care at the nonprofit organization. “I I think increasingly in our world, sadly, many rural people are alone.

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How Regulation Could Shape the Future of Telehealth in Palliative Care

Hospice News

Expanding the regulatory parameters of telemedicine could benefit underserved rural communities in particular, according to Dr. Samyukta (Sam) Mullangi, medical director of Thyme Care. Thus far, neither the House nor the Senate version has made it out of committee.

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OIG Audits of Hospice Eligibility Are Coming in FY 2023–Are You Ready?

Home Care Pulse

The intake team will be instructed to gather data from other medical providers and present it to the hospice medical director for her review prior to scheduling an admission. If you want to learn more, check out our webinar, Prepping for Pending Audits: Hospice Eligibility in 2023.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

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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How Long COVID Impacts Healthcare Workers

Nurse.com

“Many of these cases may have a common pathway with things like chronic fatigue syndrome, post-infectious issues like Epstein-Barr virus, and mononucleosis,” Steve Wiesner, MD, Northern California Kaiser Permanente On-the-Job Medical Director for Workers’ Compensation Services, said at the AOHP webinar.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). About the Authors Lead author, Chad Kollas , serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL.

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