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Addus Sees Reciprocal Gains Across 3 Home-Based Care Services

Hospice News

Launched as a personal care provider, the company in 2016 began offering hospice and home health to enhance its value proposition for payers by further reducing hospitalizations and emergency department visits. “If In turn, the personal care segment can feed referrals to home health and ultimately hospice when appropriate. .

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Samir: As some of your audience may know, there are new billing codes introduced January 1st, 2016 to start reimbursing for having advance care planning discussions. You’ll have a feeding tube. And that really created an opportunity to study this. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008.

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Your Nursing Career Mitochondria

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

A nursing career needs a great deal of feeding and watering; there are so many moving parts, and there's a lot to do in order to keep them all happy and flourishing. What impetus, desires, goals, or motivations drive you forward? If you need to stoke the fire of your nursing career, the spark cannot be created in a vacuum.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. And, then around 2016 we were like, “We kind of need a new challenge, and that’s podcasting now.” Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed. Alex: Reaper is a keeper because the next hot sauce is called, “Regret.”

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A Journey in Volunteer Nursing: From ICU to the Pacific Islands

The Nurse Break

Papua New Guinea Volunteer Nursing In 2016, perhaps a little burnt-out from demanding EDs, I moved to Papua New Guinea with my husband who was already working there and landed a job with a company to manage eighteen clinics across the country, staffed solely by nurses. It does make you quite resourceful though. It still does, at times.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

Alex: A feeding tube. I know, man, I just screwed up. I was going to say a curse word, but instead of if you need a blood transfusion, if you need intubation, if you need, it just goes on and on. Eric: What words should be going through my head as far as an alternative?

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Candida auris: What You Need to Know About the New, Deadly Fungal Infection

Home Care Pulse

cases first surfacing in 2016 in the United States in Illinois and New York. Candida auris is a fungus, a type of yeast that causes severe illness in most patients diagnosed with the infection. The fungus was fully identified and described in detail in a report by scientists in Japan in 2009, with U.S.

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