Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

Early conversations are positively associated with family decisions to limit or withdraw life-sustaining treatments, fewer in-hospital deaths, fewer unplanned hospital admissions, shorter hospital stays, family satisfaction with end-of-life care and increased odds of receiving strong opioid pain medications in the last 24 hours of life, according to (..)

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The grant will also support efforts to address social determinants of health, according to Dr. Heidi Young, associate chief medical officer for Capital Caring and medical director of the Primary Care at Home program. Capital Caring launched its Primary Care at Home service in 2019. The dollar amount was undisclosed.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Researchers have identified a number of clinical benefits, including reduction of anxiety, depression and improved acceptance of mortality, according to a 2019 literature review in the journal Current Oncology.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

She previously served as its associate medical director following her fellowship, then moved on to become its director of pediatrics before ascending to her current leadership position. “It Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Appoints Medical Director. Goode will continue to care for patients on a part-time basis.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

About 10% of hospice patients were enrolled for only two days or less during 2019, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Two previous iterations of the bill passed in the House but stalled twice in the Senate, most recently in 2019, despite its nearly 300 bipartisan cosponsors.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Understanding these perspectives can drive conversations about management of these symptoms, according to VITAS Medical Director Robert Nguyen, who worked on the study. between 2010 and 2019. Views on pain and discomfort at the end of life can differ among various demographics. and 20%, respectively. They represent 1.8%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Clinical practice guidelines are more clear regarding the initiation of medications, but often unclear about when discontinuation is safe and appropriate, a 2019 study in the journal Clinical Medicine indicated. We need to shift into a system that understands how to pay for a lot more at the end of life than we’re doing now.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

. “Our expert palliative care providers create a layer of support to improve quality of life and help patients manage all facets of living with a serious illness,” Dr. Sherry Ng, medical director of palliative care at Stamford Health, said in a statement. Hospices provide most of the remaining 50%.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Established in 2019, the foundation began in part with community donations and philanthropic support from a family that received care from pediatric hospice and palliative provider Dell Children’s, part of the nonprofit health system Ascension. Dubbed Abbey House, the center will be located in Austin, Texas, and is supported by the Abigail E.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center and later joined NYC Health + Hospitals Corp. Prior to Calvary Hospital, he was COO at the Jacobi Medical Center. Comfort has been Calvary Hospital’s COO since 2019. He joined the health system as medical director 24 years ago.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

“Analyses of massive amounts of data can lead to patient insights and predictive analytics, facilitating health care interventions to occur at more appropriate times and potentially avoiding expensive medical situations for patients, payers, and providers.” What other programs can we help you find for them?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly wage hike, and medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%, the report indicated. in 2019, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported. Nurses saw average national salary increases of 5.95% in 2022. among Medicare decedents from 51.6%

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

He most recently served as UnitedHealth Group’s CEO since 2019 president. Prior to joining Treasure Coast Hospice, he practiced family medicine at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, Gateway Medical Group and Jupiter Medical Center. He also served as medical director at skilled nursing facility provider Life Care Center of Port St.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Chou publicly acknowledged his funding from AHRQ in a presentation at AMDG's "Patient-Centered Approach to Chronic Opioid Management Conference," held on August 9, 2019 (45).

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. So they looked at those that died in 2019, did a year back look at total cost of care that showed at six months, if somebody lives six months on average, those in hospice cost the Medicare trust fund 11% less than those who never enrolled.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

About the Authors: Lead author, Chad Kollas, MD, serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL. 2019 Dec;160(12):2655-2660. He can be reached by e-mail at chad.kollas@orlandohealth.com or via Twitter at @ChadKollasMD. Ann Fam Med. 2021 Jan-Feb;19(1):79-82.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

As I look at the inspirational leaders who have been named in the 2014 and 2019 cohorts, I am humbled and honored to be included in the 2024 group. As ambulatory medical director of PC at my institution, I have benefitted greatly from leadership training, mentorship, and coaching in my work. It is quite an honor!

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And so while I’m there, I’m precepting my nurse practitioner students and first and fourth-year medical students. I’m the medical director of quality, and it’s a big part of my job, work, and daily life. And I went every six months as scheduled in August 2019. And it’s just been a great experience. I love working there.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is the highest rate since 2019. First, there are the two July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. A number of large assets purchased by PE firms in 2019 through 2022 are reaching maturity and ready to be sold once again. Hospice utilization reached 51.7%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, the organization had just 200 members. But research shows that providers that focus on health equity outperformed others in profitability by 36% during Q4 2019, according to a global study by McKinsey & Company. The 2019 average length of stay for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But back in 2019, there was a lot of disagreement in our group about whether for a patient with cancer and cancer related pain and a substance use disorder, whether palliative care was the appropriate specialty to care for those patients.

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