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Regulators Extend Some Telemedicine Flexibilities, Gauge Telehealth’s ‘New Path Forward’ in Hospice

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Among the myriad regulations is the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008, which stipulates that a provider may prescribe controlled substances to a patient only after conducting an in-person evaluation. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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Hospice Organizations Appoint New Leadership, VPs

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With a robust and growing membership and an engaged board, the Academy is strongly positioned to be a leading voice for hospice and palliative care physicians and professionals. He was also a member of the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Standing Committee at the National Quality Forum. Catherines West Rehabilitation Hospital and St.

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Choice Health at Home Acquires Lumicare Hospice

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among Medicare decedents in 2020, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. Established in 2008, Choice offers home health, hospice, private duty and skilled nursing rehabilitation services, operating in 60 locations across Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

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To start us off we talk with Kara Bischoff about the article she just published in JAMA Network on a re-validation of the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) in a modern day palliative care setting. But it’s still the prognostic tool used most often by palliative care clinicians. Why do this? James, welcome back to GeriPal.