Hospice News
APRIL 12, 2024
Specialized nursing facility clinicians, or SNFists, have a strong potential to reduce hospitalizations and improve quality of care at the end of life, including access to hospice. The work of SNFists uniquely impacted the care of nursing home residents during their last 90 days of life, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Hospice News
JANUARY 11, 2024
This is the second PACE center that the nonprofit senior care health system has opened and the first such program in its home county, Hillsborough. Empath’s first center, Suncoast PACE, launched in 2012. Empath Health Empath Health Empath LIFE cuts the ribbon on its new Tampa PACE center. We exercise; we do all kinds of fun things.”
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AJN Off the Charts
APRIL 7, 2023
The study found that more than half of ED visits among patients with cancer, 51.6%, were identified as potentially preventable, with the absolute number of potentially preventable ED visits increasing substantially between 2012 and 2019. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Nearly 10% of the 1.5
Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
MAY 29, 2022
As we move to a more integrated health and social care system in the UK 3 , social care nurses have a pivotal role to play and are ideally placed to lead and implement change specifically within the nursing/care home sector. There are an estimated 40,000 Registered Nurses working in adult social care in England 5.
GeriPal
MARCH 2, 2023
valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.
High Peaks Hospice
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Camillus, director of Uihlein Mercy Nursing Home in Lake Placid, worked to ensure hospice services would be available to nursing home residents. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012. Jimmy Bevilacqua served as the required compounding pharmacist available 24 hours/day.
Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway
MAY 2, 2022
Nurses continue to be at the center of COVID-19 response, whether it's our intrepid nationwide network of public health nurses focusing on population health and direct response, or nurses in hospitals, clinics, home health agencies, schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, and any other milieu you can think of.
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