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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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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
MAY 29, 2022
By Dr Agnes Fanning MA MSc BSc RN DN RNT, Queen’s Nurse, Queens Nursing Institute (QNI), and Dr Jane Wray, Senior Lecturer in Nursing (University of Hull), and Senior Clinical Nurse Advisor to the National Preceptorship Project. Nurses working in social care settings have unique knowledge, skills and expertise 1.
Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? Nurse practitioners are thankfully filling those gaps in primary care.
Hospice News
JANUARY 3, 2025
An OIG study of hospice billing claims submitted during 2012 found that 31% of the GIP claims that providers submitted to CMS were inappropriately billed to the tune of an estimated $268 million that year alone. The industry will also likely see efforts continue to combat fraud, including the aforementioned audits and medical reviews.
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.
AJN Off the Charts
APRIL 7, 2023
There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Nearly 10% of the 1.5
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