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New Inpatient Centers Unveiled as Other Hospice Programs Consider Closure

Hospice News

Located in Owatonna, Minnesota, the Homestead Hospice House was built in 2005 and closed in 2023. The hospice has provided care to hundreds of patients since its opening in 2021. Allina Health partnered with Seasons Hospice to reopen the health system’s inpatient center.

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New Executives Take the Helm at AccentCare, Blue Ridge, Androscoggin, Good Samaritan

Hospice News

Natarajan’s role expanded after previously serving as the post-acute company’s chief medical officer for hospice since 2005. Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021. Balu Natarajan has become AccentCare’s new executive vice president and chief medical officer.

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Just Released: AACN Standards for Adult Critical Care Nurse Staffing

Daily Nurse

Appropriate staffing has long been one of the “AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments” (HWE standards), first published in 2005. It has also been one of the most complex areas to address.

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Facilitating a knowledge mobilisation approach using critically appraised topics to further evidence- based practice  

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

In addition, strategies to minimise the ‘evidence to practice gap’, known as knowledge mobilisation, utilises any activity which aim to “create and communicate” research-based knowledge within the healthcare setting (Stevenson et al, 2021). Epub 2021 Dec 2 [cited 2022 Jul 7]. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005 90: 837-840.

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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

Pallimed

A close look at the fellowship match data from Dec 2021, shows that HPM has the fifth highest number of matched applicants, behind the big 4: Cardiovascular, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Hematology and Oncology, and Gastroenterology. Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty!

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Ep. 27 - Racial and Cultural Competence in Palliative Care

HPNA podcast

Amisha received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Connecticut (2020), and BS and MPH in Global Health from George Washington University (2001 & 2005). Amisha received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Connecticut (2020), and BS and MPH in Global Health from George Washington University (2001 & 2005).

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A CRNA Career Path: Meet Bijal Chaturvedi

Minority Nurse

I earned my Master of Science in Anesthesia Nursing from Rush University in Chicago in 2005. In 2021, I received my Doctorate of Nursing from University of North Florida , and in 2022 I received my Global Health Leadership Certification from Northwestern University. This experience solidified my decision to pursue a career as a CRNA.