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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 nursinghome health and grief support. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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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 nursinghome? Katie: Yep. Jessie: Yep.
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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 nursinghomes? Home with a 75 year old mom who can’t really move them?
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Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.
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