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Congress Grills HHS on Hospice Program Integrity

Hospice News

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. In some instances, multiple hospices have been operating out of the same address without a corresponding increase in the population of eligible patients. of hospices) 2024 (No.

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Staff Training Key to Improving Hospice Quality Among LGBTQ+ Patients

Hospice News

Training that creates comfortable spaces for providers to learn about types of biases and how these may impact patient care are also imperative and [we] should normalize this, while providing techniques to work past them. Creating comfortable spaces for employees to be themselves can trickle down into patient care.”

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Culture, Compensation, Education Are Keys to Hospice Chaplain Turnover

Hospice News

“When someone is overwhelmed, it is impossible for them to provide quality care.”. On average, the tenures of more than a third of hospice chaplains in the United States lasted only one to two years between 2010 and 2019, according to research from Zippia. A shrinking labor pool.

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

Hospice News

Prior to Hospice of the Chesapeake, Sherman in 2018 launched Maryland Concierge Primary Care LLC, an adult primary care and medical weight management company. He has more than 25 years of health care experience, including a role as assistant medical director at Compassus from 2010 to 2017.

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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

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She began as a nurse at the hospice in 2010, and started her career at Berkeley Medical Center in 2008 as a primary nurse and charge nurse in the progressive care unit. She has more than 26 years of nursing experience, working in surgical and cardiac intensive care units in hospital settings for a decade before turning to hospice.

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Emergency Nurses Association Launches Crucial Study on Workplace Violence

Daily Nurse

The last time ENA researchers conducted a large-scale survey was in 2010; the report was published in 2011. To qualify, participants must be emergency department nurses engaged in direct patient care for at least 50% of their work time, be over 21 years old, and speak English.

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SCAN Group CEO Sachin Jain: Medicare Could Use a Major Facelift

Hospice News

This year, the company announced plans to combine with Care Oregon, a Medicaid-focused payer organization, and earlier this year it began participating in the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model demo in early 2023. ​​In In 2010 and 2011, he was a special advisor to then U.S.

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