Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) has appointed Dr. Derrel Walker as its chief medical officer, a new position for the company. Walker came to Pennant in 2011 as a medical director in one of the company’s Idaho branches. Can you say more about the mobile physician program and where hospice and palliative care fits into it?

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Chou had originally announced his intention to help influence opioid policy in a 2011 article that he co-authored with PROP’s founders (5), and he was a bold signatory to PROP’s 2012 Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change opioid labeling (6; See Figures 1a and 1b: First page and signatory page.)

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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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