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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires providers to acquire a building and design a center to house a PACE program. To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting.

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By the Bay Health to Merge with Mission Hospice & Home Care

Hospice News

The nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. By the Bay Health hospice, palliative and pediatric care, as well as skilled nursing home health and grief support. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Katie: Yep. Jessie: Yep.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? Home with a 75 year old mom who can’t really move them?

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Alex: Can I ask a question? Melissa, were you a banker before you did research?

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2022: What will the technical experts say?

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

An excerpt from that blog here: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has consulted with Acumen in an effort to establish a comprehensive approach to Medicare Part A PPS SNF payment reform. Assess the impact of the payment alternative on SNF residents, SNF providers, and the overall Medicare system. Well, great news!

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