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Two CEOs Retire, Three Hospice Leadership Teams Grow

Hospice News

The organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support.

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

Hospice News

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. Bello and his wife Sade Bello, the hospice’s administrator, launched Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care in 2015.

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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.

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May Heroes of the Month

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

Her role was to deal with accounts from Westmoreland Skilled Nursing Home. She enrolled to become a Certified Nursing Assistant. After she received her certificate, she joined the Freedom Home Care team 4 years ago. Unfortunately, Diane’s husband passed away suddenly in 2015. Diane was married for 32 years.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Eric: They’re not using all of these meds just for all those nursing home patients with partial seizures? J Am Geriatr Soc. Eric: Yeah.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015.

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

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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 nursing home? Katie: Yep. Jessie: Yep.