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AJN Off the Charts
JULY 28, 2022
The Reflections column in AJN ‘s August issue, “ To Care When There Isn’t Enough ,” is by Alison Stoltzfus, an obstetrics nurse at Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, PA. The work could be overwhelming at times. A longing that at times I had to refuse. One life at a time.
Hospice News
JANUARY 22, 2024
Eduardo Bruera is a true pioneer in the field of palliative care. Bruera founded the first academic fellowship program in palliative care at the University of Alberta in Canada. This department has emerged as the largest clinical and academic palliative care program in the world. I am trained as a medical oncologist.
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AlayaCare
JUNE 21, 2023
In the home care industry, efficient software training is crucial for onboarding staff members and ensuring they can provide the highest quality care to clients. Traditional training methods often involve repetitive tasks and consume significant amounts of time.
Hospice News
JUNE 9, 2023
Increasingly, both policymakers and providers are seeing potential opportunities to reform the Medicare Hospice Benefit, including the prospect of concurrent care. Driving these conversations is the need to lighten the nation’s heavy health care spend, which in 2021 reached $4.3 trillion , according to the U.S. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
An expansion of “death literacy” is necessary to improve end-of-life care in the United States, according to Michael Connelly, former CEO of Mercy Health. From the individual point of view, it is really understanding how health care thinks and how it operates. Can you expound on the concept of hijacking death?
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] has expressed the goal of increasing the number of patients who are under value-based care,” Wise told Hospice News during the ELEVATE conference. CMS included a hospice component in the model that allowed providers to step into value-based payment for the first time.
Hospice News
MAY 5, 2023
Reaching underserved populations can be a particularly challenging feat, with many coming on to hospice too late as a result of misconceptions among patients and clinicians in other fields, according to Keisha Mason, director of nursing at Heart’n Soul Hospice. Such changes would strike a balance between longer stays, quality and compliance.
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