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Pacifica House… More Than Just a Building

Hospice of the North Coast

The hospice team also surprised Angel by presenting him with an Honor Salute. The only short term in-patient facility in North County San Diego, Pacifica House is a home for hospice patients who require a higher level of skilled care to manage pain and symptoms. This unique program recognizes veteran hospice patients.

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How Amazon’s $3.9 Billion One Medical Acquisition Could Disrupt Home-Based Care—For Better or Worse

Home Care Pulse

Amazon has the technology, logistical network, human capital, and negotiating power to significantly alter care delivery and operations in a way that will render most care providers uncompetitive, should they continue operating as they do today. . #1: Let’s look at existing technology it might leverage in home care: .

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Nurses, Nursing, and the Nature of Suffering

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

From dialysis and med-surg to home health and the ICU, nurses create therapeutic relationships with patients and their families, providing spiritual and emotional comfort, compassion, and expert skilled care based on many decades of nursing science and evidence-based interventions. In other words, our desires cause us to suffer.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

Khai Nguyen: As a National Medical Director at CHAP, I draw from the clinical experiences I’ve been so fortunate to have as a geriatrician, mostly in the community care setting.

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Maintaining a Professional Distance and the Holidays

Home Care Pulse

Sure, we have feelings, and yes, we do have clients and patients that find a special place in our hearts, but the reality is we exist to provide a service that significantly impacts the well-being of those in our skilled care. Do we respond rigidly and avoid developing deeper connections with those in our care? Of course, not!

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

They’re saying that you can’t have inpatient care because the patient is dying or doesn’t need the care of a physician or the care of a nurse. It is skilled care even when you have no skills, and you have no license, but you’re doing this 24 hours.

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4 Things Killing Your OASIS Assessment and How to Fix Them

The Productive Home Health Nurse

And to be honest, each time you submit documentation to Medicare on behalf of your patients, it is a clean slate type of situation, and they are meeting that patient for the first time in whatever capacity or situation you are presenting at that very moment because…. Wait a minute??!!