Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

I began taking care of hospice patients back in 2015 after moving to San Diego and working in a hospital setting for a while. We also have a home health aide, a chaplain, a social worker, a patient intake coordinator and a medical director. Luckily, we have been able to stay fully staffed.

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Pallimed

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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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

About the Authors: Lead author, Chad Kollas, MD, serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL. 2015 Nov 26;373(22):2098-9. He can be reached by e-mail at chad.kollas@orlandohealth.com or via Twitter at @ChadKollasMD. J Gen Intern Med. Epub 2020 Nov 6.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

We started having palliative care IDGs, where we would have our medical director sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?” I think we’re coming a long way. I looked for a palliative care program that served pediatrics in my area.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). About the Authors Lead author, Chad Kollas , serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL.

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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 ). Jerry: Well, I started in 2015 doing the Jewish body washing after the death. This week we turn our attention to the inmates. And this is my family, who I spend my time with.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. The MVP for them is care navigator, medical director, or a clinician who could be advanced care practice PA or a physician who have one of three factor. What we didn’t have was the payment model to deliver the comprehensive dementia care. Malaz: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

And I became the medical director for that program, and so I was watching and learning as the hospital was taken over by AIDS patients and the whole city was consumed by this epidemic. And so I decided to look at medical aid in dying. And this was in 2015 when I started to think about this project.

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