Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Since serving as the CEO beginning in 2017, I have continued to learn and help further our mission, and [make an] impact both locally and nationally.

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AlayaCare

APRIL 1, 2020

Until now, loneliness has been more frequently researched than feelings of isolation, as this 2017 review found both feelings are cut from the same cloth. For seniors in particular, video conferencing is a lifeline when social interaction isn’t feasible.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

Noted in its stated objectives the CMS National Quality Strategy takes a person-centered approach to quality and safety and seeks to improve the overall care journey as individuals move across the continuum of care, from home- or community-based settings to hospitals and post-acute care. This all sounds great, right?

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. You’re not going to end up going back home after the surgery. And that really created an opportunity to study this.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). Project Support. Mobility Assessment Item Data Collection Start Dates.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 2, 2024

He hopes his research will eventually connect local food producers in Pennsylvania, where he farms, with health care facilities such as nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. Lindsley—or “Farmer Matt,” as colleagues know him—is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 2, 2022

Nurses continue to be at the center of COVID-19 response, whether it's our intrepid nationwide network of public health nurses focusing on population health and direct response, or nurses in hospitals, clinics, home health agencies, schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, and any other milieu you can think of.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Hospitals are crucial, of course, but there's more to nursing than units like the ED, the ICU, med-surg, and telemetry. Nurses nurse the nation in schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, home health, hospice, and public health. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Licensed practical or vocational nurses are usually considered generalists, and their work is crucial in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, physician offices, and other milieus where they are the lifeblood of patient care. Generalist nurse practitioners also serve an important clinical purpose in many facilities.

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 19, 2023

Go Here Written in 2017 OK. The research, collated from the Coronial investigations into nursing home deaths over the past decade, was carried out by Monash University Professor Joseph Ibrahim and published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Want to write an article? Please take few moments to look at this.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

More and more people are choosing to die at home. However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. Since the healthcare system first started keeping track of this in the 70s, most people died in hospitals.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

AUGUST 8, 2022

Whether on the actual battlefield or that of the emergency department, ICU, school, or community health center, nurse warriors walk among us daily. Nurse warriors also exist among those who staff our public health departments, research facilities, home health agencies, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Read here from other nurses who have made the move from across the world. Want to share your journey moving to Australia to nurse? I’m from New Zealand and have been in Australia since 2017. Contact us. Introduction.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. As a hospice nurse, you might not always understand how this relates to your work. Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Remember when I wrote to you all in a January 2017 blog titled, “ Is your rehab partner wearing blinders? Abt’s contract name is “Home Health and Hospice Quality Reporting Program Quality Measures and Assessment Instruments Development, Modification and Maintenance, & Quality Reporting Program Oversight Support.” Survey trends?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago.

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Boca Home Care Services

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

They could need additional medical assistance or they could end up living with family, in a retirement facility, or get assistance from an in-home aide. In essence, the word ‘seniors’ might call to mind images of walkers, nursing homes, and individuals of a ‘particular age.’

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