Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

LGBTQ+ communities have been historically underserved by hospice, often due to mistrust of the health care system as well as discrimination. He is a board member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and has served as vice-chair and member of the Public Policy Committee and chair of the Palliative Care Council.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recent studies spanning various countries have found that location matters for patients with cancer and opioid disorders when it comes to end-of-life care delivery, costs and outcomes. Researchers scoured patient data of nearly 680,000 decedents in Ontario, Canada who died between July 1, 2015 and Dec.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Traumatized and abused hospice patients and providers often experience an array of lingering physical, emotional and psychological effects that can fall into a silent abyss of unmet needs. They may be uncomfortable talking about it with their provider care team.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Home-based care, including hospice, is an increasingly attractive space for health systems and hospitals — a trend that accelerated during the pandemic. Health systems are bringing care to the home by a number of routes. of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Angela Hospice’s New Senior Living Inpatient Facility Michigan-based Angela Hospice recently unveiled plans to open a new inpatient center at a senior living facility. Set to open this summer, the hospice facility will feature 15 patient beds at Lourdes Senior Community in Waterford, Michigan. The William B. and Janet B.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Nurse practitioner Raphael and registered nurse Britt Akobundu, a married couple, launched San Diego-based Blue Monarch Hospice this past March, with the intent of improving the quality of life for not only patients and families, but also health care workers. . As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program?

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. There’s going to be so much change around value-based care coming in some way, shape or form for hospices,” Kudner told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

The COVID-19 public health emergency remains in effect,” an HHS spokesperson told Hospice News in an email. “As As the PHE lingers, so do questions around what it has brought to the table for hospices. CMS also temporarily waived the requirement for volunteers to provide a minimum of 5% of hospice patient care hours.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The bill builds upon the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, designed to speed transitions to patient-centered, value-based care. extension of MACRA’s advanced APM incentive in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, which expired at the end of last year. It gets problematic because of the funds.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In considering the potential impact of providing children’s palliative and end of life care to an increasing number of children, some assumptions need to be challenged. There is a belief that the preferred place of death for adults and children is home (Ellingsen et al 2014; Pollock, 2015; Rainsford et al 2018).

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). On today’s podcast we talk with three of these Pastoral Care Workers, Jerry Judson, Jeffrey Maria, and Allan Krenitzky. Eric: And Alex, last week we did episode one of Hospice in Prison.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

De novos have propelled recent growth among some hospice providers. Hospice of the Midwest expands with de novo Hospice of the Midwest recently opened a de novo in Marshalltown, Iowa, adding a fifth location to its footprint in the state. The hospice provider also has two locations in Minnesota and one in Nebraska.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So we’re going to have a link to the article that you published in JAMA IM titled The Hospital Culture and Intensity of End-of-Life Care at Three Academic Hospitals. And I was interested in intensity of end-of-life care and differences in intensity of end-of-life care. Liz: Right.

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Home Care Pulse

MARCH 15, 2023

R exburg, Idaho, March 15, 2023—HCP, the leading provider of experience management, training, and reputation management in the post-acute industry, has partnered with Hospice pioneer Barbara Karnes to provide exclusive online courses based on her library of renowned end-of-life materials.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This episode features Anna Bone (Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London). This study aimed to project where people will die from 2015 to 2040 across all care settings in England and Wales. and 88.6%, with care home the most common place of death by 2040.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. Expert consensus holds that people should receive hospice for three to six months. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It contains no hard dosing thresholds for prescribing opioids and instead “aims promote equitable access to effective, informed, individualized, and safe pain management that improves patients’ function and quality of life, while clarifying and reducing the risks associated with opioid use (19).” 2015 Nov 26;373(22):2098-9.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Additional links: GeriPal podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Nathan Brummel on geriatricizing the ICU. Julien: It’s a good question.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. And so, for-profit hospices, for-profit methadone clinics pop up everywhere, and their care is pretty variable. Devon, welcome to GeriPal.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. And I think hospice says everybody dies.

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Journey With Deanna

JUNE 16, 2015

It began with hospice in the late 1960s, the first wave of an incredible movement to bring comfort and peace to people who were dying in misery, alone and in pain. There is another wave of empowerment at the end of life that is going on now; this time, on the individual level. More Information Here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) published its “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (8),” which was updated in 2010 and 2015 (11). Carrie Judy is an unpaid contributor and researcher at The Doctor Patient Forum. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

Data have shown that of the top 5% of healthcare utilization in the US, only 11% are at the end of life (Aldridge & Kelly, 2015). Many have persistent unmet care needs leading to high costs with questionable quality outcomes (Salzberg, et al. The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. He’s the founding chair of the Board of Compassionate Choices and is currently vice chair of the Board of End of Life Choices, California. And this was in 2015 when I started to think about this project. Alex: Please.

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