Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hospices are reaching an inflection point when it comes to breaking down communication barriers around spiritual care among underserved communities, according to William Williamson, who recently became the new director of faith outreach at AMOREM. What has been your experience in hospice thus far? What does the role involve?

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We then decided to challenge others and asked them to post their videos online using the hashtag #thickenedliquidchallenge. Here are some of the results of those videos: [link] On today’s podcast, we revisit dysphagia and thickened liquids with two researchers and speech-language pathologists, Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making. On the one hand, when people have ambivalence but haven’t explored why they are ambivalent, they are prone to bad, value-incongruent decisions. What should we be more worried about in decision-making, ambivalence or the lack thereof?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. We use Bernie’s NEJM Perspective as a springboard for discussion. What words to use? Under what circumstances?

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2022

Some hospice providers are willing to take on additional regulatory pressure if it successfully roots out “bad actors” in the space, Sarah McSpadden, president and CEO of The Elizabeth Hospice, told Hospice News. Can you expand upon what the audit results indicate on a broader scale?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. This week we dive into the challenges with communication when it comes to life sustaining treatments and CPR. Take for example the simple question: “If her breathing gets any worse, she will need to be intubated.” Bob: The fish.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

CMS published a blog and a series of fact sheets today that the agency described as a “ roadmap ” for health care providers to navigate the regulatory changes that will come when the PHE ends. What started as a stop-gap solution to prevent the virus from spreading has become an integrated component of care delivery.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

It’s necessary that we continue to educate on these issues and recognize that they exist.” Hospices must also take into account that the prevalence of violence, abuse and trauma may be similar among their workforce, Fisher added. “It’s understanding that a large majority of abuse victims are not going to speak out.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study and before that with Sarah Szanton about the CAPABLE study. Eric: Alex, who do we have with us today? Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Their job was done. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. We discuss the moral distress that clinicians felt including, as one physician put it, a sense of your soul being ripped out. This field is not new. Proud Mary.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Today’s podcast is part one of a two-part podcast where we spend a day at CMF, a medium security prison located about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the hospice unit housed inside its walls. Afterwards, we chat with the prison’s chaplain, Keith Knauf. Eric: Where are we? Alex: What this is, where are we?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Where we are headed and really believe more than ever in (especially for beneficiaries with serious illness and their families) is a need for value-based care to build a more person-centered health system,” Rawal said at the conference. “It We’re really trying to learn as we advance and implement policies,” Mallick said.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This book is terrific, truly comprehensive, and is a go to resource for when I’m “stuck” taking care of patients with cancer. . Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Eric: On this podcast, we’re going to be focusing on the management of cancer pain. We have recorded, I think, probably around 236 podcasts.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

We really want to make sure that we are doing what we can to communicate the incredible work across the department, across the government and, particularly, at this agency, to make sure that you’re well informed of all of the initiatives that we have underway,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said during the call.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 16, 2024

According to Hoffman, “The two most common reasons that new graduate nurses are disciplined are (1) failure to notice changes in patient status and (2) failure to act when a patient is deteriorating” (2024, 3). When addressed in an orderly fashion, these elements can help the nurse make better clinical decisions. What happened?

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

We found that there’s a lot of pain out there around their ability to manage workflows and maximize their compliance effectiveness with limited staffing resources.” Workforce shortages and compliance issues are coinciding at a time when government scrutiny is reportedly heating up.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As Keri put it in the podcast, we must go beyond “a hammer and a nail” philosophy to approaching anger by developing a toolkit for anger that is vast and varied. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Taking care of the hateful patient.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As our guests talk about today, caregiving for people living with dementia takes a tremendous toll, and when this toll is set atop the challenges of racism in all its forms, the reality of caregiving while Black can be overwhelming. We talk in particular about: Terminology. We talk in particular about: Terminology.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. We’re very optimistic and bullish on developing a product and network that will be attractive to payers and providers that would want to participate in that.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Hospice organizations are under increasing legal and regulatory scrutiny related to medical necessity complaints under the False Claims Act and the closely related anti-kickback statute. These regulatory moves could have investors growing weary of hurdles to cross when evaluating a hospice asset. “I

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 15, 2024

CPR certification addresses this issue and provides a way to save a life when others won’t step in. The EMTs Will Render Aid When They Arrive EMT arrival highly depends on traffic, weather, and location, with 1 in 10 people waiting more than 30 minutes for an ambulance. You cannot count on equipment to take the place of CPR training.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 13, 2024

Given the diversity in our world today, take a moment and ask yourself: Are you a culturally competent nurse or nursing student? It makes the individuals and groups we interact with feel seen, heard, and valued. What is Cultural Competence vs Cultural Humility? Do you demonstrate cultural humility?

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Instead of reflexively jumping to melatonin or ambien, on today’s podcast we talk with two sleep experts, Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner, about a better approach to sleep problems and insomnia. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Eric: We’re going to be talking about sleep problems, insomnia, in older adults.

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The Nurse Break

MARCH 28, 2024

More from In Pursuit of Excellence here Express interest in writing for us here When I initially started to write this piece, I was on a career vacation. I questioned how I had found myself as a nurse, when my lifelong dream had always been writing. Consequently, taking this job was where I found my real passion for nursing.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients. Kristin Levoy, researcher with the Regenstrief Institute and assistant professor in the Indiana University School of Nursing F rom your perspective, what would you say are the most important takeaways of this research?

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s been around for a long time but is acting like the hot new kid in town. On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. We got some really special guests with us. We’re going to be talking about buprenorphine, lots of fun stuff.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The CARES Act, enacted on March 27, 2020, earmarked $175 billion for the Provider Relief Fund (PRF), designed to replace revenue that thousands of health care providers lost due to the pandemic. We were, and still are, very concerned about the reporting and use of the funding,” Ponder-Stansel told Hospice News in an email.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We talk about: What is a practical geriatric assessment and how can busy oncologists actually do one? What can you do with the results of a geriatric assessment? How does the geriatric assessment lead to improved completion of advance directives, when the assessment doesn’t address advance care planning/directives at all?

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Recent allegations that staff at HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) put pressure on patients to enter hospice dovetail with longstanding questions over how and when patients should be referred. At the same time, it’s really hard to picture what could have occurred there without some sort of corporate involvement.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Little words like “may” or “could” are signals that easy answers are rare when it comes to these concerns. A number of hospice leaders anticipate that the industry will settle into a “new normal,” having absorbed the shock of the pandemic with a better understanding of how to navigate the transformed landscape. Be ready for regulation.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

What would it take to transform dementia care? In order to truly transform dementia care we need to think much broader than the amyloid hypothesis. Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . She created TimeSlips which we talk about in our podcast.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 21, 2024

How we think about patients is important and can significantly impact the nurse-patient relationship and quality of care. What Exactly is a “Good Patient”? She continues, “ What characteristics are we looking for? We think good patients treat us respectfully, cooperate, and comply with our present plan.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). This week we turn our attention to the inmates.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications?

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Hospice News

MARCH 9, 2023

The threats we face change daily, which means our focus, defenses and responses must change along with those threats,” Clark told Hospice News. This takes everyone within the organization understanding the need to stay vigilant — no matter what the task. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. “As

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? What led you into hospice care and what were the steps that led you to where you are now with CareXM? I loved taking care of active dying patients. Kristy Fisher: My background is in nursing. There are several challenges.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 25, 2024

The recently published “Quality in Motion: Acting on the CMS National Quality Strategy April 2024” highlights further evolution of the 2022 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Quality Strategy (NQS). What exactly is the “Universal Foundation”? Take, for example, the person-centered care element.

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