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Creating a Disaster Simulation for Nursing Students

AJN Off the Charts

We taught the students how to use the SMART triage tagging system and pre-briefed them on general emergency management information. The SMART triage tagging system is a tagging system used for quickly triaging and prioritizing care of victims during a mass casualty. Some initial takeaways.

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Where Hospices Are Investing Their 2024 Recruitment, Retention Dollars

Hospice News

It all hinges on leadership’s commitment to learning what’s important and supporting it after that education piece goes away. Turnover expenses often carry a more expensive price tag than recruitment and retention costs, Linton said. The North Carolina-based organization offers home infusion services, along with home care and hospice.

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Value-Based Care Experience Gives Legacy Hospice Operators a Leg Up on Competition

Hospice News

Large-scale hospices have increasingly gone up for sale, with price tags in the hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars range in some cases. This can give hospices a leg up against new competitors, while also posing opportunities to learn about their motives for entering the space, he said. How can we learn from those groups?

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The Elizabeth Hospice Purchases $8.1 Million Building with Long-Term Growth in Mind

Hospice News

The Elizabeth Hospice recently purchased a medical office building complex in its home state of California for a price tag of $8.1 For example, since our skills learning lab is unique in San Diego, we are exploring using this resource to support the community by addressing the growing shortage of skilled health care workers.

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5 Ways for your Home Care Agency to Deal with Margin Squeeze

AlayaCare

Using a smartphone app , such as AlayaCare, can provide GPS-tagged punch data and reporting to prove services were delivered. Learn how home-based care organizations are approaching financial health and growth strategy in today’s environment via the results of our survey report.

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CMS Seeks Answers on Hospice Utilization Trends, Spending

Hospice News

The ‘unrelated care’ conundrum CMS is also seeking to learn more about the factors contributing to rising non-hospice spending for patients who have elected the benefit. That price tag rose in Fiscal Year 2022, exceeding $1.4 They raise the rates, and then they’re basically asking for the money back by auditing people.”

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What To Expect When You Start Caring for an Elderly Parent

Caregiver Support Services

It will be a learning process, at first. They will want to visit friends or tag along for shopping adventures. It’s also essential to determine which treatments you can do alone, and which ones require assistance. Perhaps a nurse will make daily visits for a procedure, and you can take care of the rest independently.