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Executive Shifts at Amedisys, AMOREM, VITAS; Compassus, Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoint New Clinical Leaders

Hospice News

Ginn began leading financial teams at Amedisys in 2007, while Guidroz previously served as senior vice president of accounting at Amedisys since June 2018. In addition to hospice, VITAS offers palliative care and home medical equipment services. CEO Switches at AMOREM DeSha McLeod has become CEO of North-Carolina based AMOREM.

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Pediatric Hospice Abbey House Gaining Momentum in Texas

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My daughter Abbey was born in 2007 as a healthy baby girl, but within two or three months had all these issues and was medically fragile,” Keller told Hospice News. “We We’re looking at what other states have done to come up with a model for care here for medically fragile children.” Keller Foundation.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). About the Authors Lead author, Chad Kollas , serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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