Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

Empath Health Jonathan Fleece speaks at Hospice News’ 2023 Elevate Conference Empath Health, in its current form, emerged in 2020 from a merger with Stratum Health, where Fleece was previously CEO. The ISNP program will in time extend throughout the state of Florida, according to Fleece.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

“The intricacies of how they do those calculations are complex, but what’s important for hospices to know is that if we put money into one part of hospice reimbursement, we have to find money for it someplace else,” Mollie Gurian, vice president of home based and home- and community-based services policy at LeadingAge. “It

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health. Established in 1986, Assisted Daily Living provides skilled home care, personal care and private duty services in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Rhode Island.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 The median length declined slightly to 17 days, down from 18 in 2020. The question will be whether we start to see that longer length of stay as nursing homes and [skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)] get back after the public health emergency is over.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

CommCare’s purchase of Notre Dame’s home health and hospice operations marks the transaction of this divestiture Its nursing home services are next in line as part of a separate deal set to close in 2023. For us, home health is a new business that we believe has great future potential.”. currently, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. Researchers pooled a group of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains during a three-month period to examine ties between employee well-being and turnover.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Alex 00:07 We do.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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. Elara Caring provides home-based hospice, palliative, skilled nursing, behavioral health and personal care services to more than 60,000 patients in 16 states.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

In addition, the company’s innovation arm Contessa Health continues to make new inroads to expanding emerging high-acuity care models like hospital-at-home services, exploring new payer and provider partnerships and making big investments in palliative care. Before that, he was president of Walgreens Co.,

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Longer stays reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%, according to a 2023 report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), and NORC at the University of Chicago. 9: [ UPDATED] Rep.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. Bennett, C.R., SPONSOR:

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

He and co-founders Bishop Sandy McClain and André Lee, administrator, applied for a license to establish the hospice in 2020. Hospitals and nursing homes don’t want to get dinged for readmissions. What are some innovative approaches to address referral relationships and length of stay challenges in a post-pandemic world?

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. nursing homes.

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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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Nurse.com

MAY 9, 2022

There are many moving parts to this model, and nurses are involved in nearly every part, whether it’s a clinic nurse, home health nurse, a nurse responsible for discharging the child on the unit at the hospital, or the care coordinator, according to Whitfield. Evidence Is Building to Support Hospital-Based Models.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Jordana Latozas, RN, MSN, ACNP, went to nursing school intending to stay in the ICU forever, but her career trajectory took on a life of its own, and in February 2020, she founded the Recovery Mobile Clinic , Michigan’s first mobile addiction clinic. Then, I left the pain clinic and started doing hospice and palliative care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics? Why did you go into it?

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Hospice Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According the legislative history of the Bill, in December of 2020, the Los Angeles Times published an investigative series on the hospice industry. According the legislative history, supporters of the Bill include California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (“ CANHR ”).

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

Despite the discouraging effects of the caregiver shortage felt by all owners, home care agencies are actually doing better than they have for the last 4 years! Home care providers experienced 7.3% growth seen in 2020. client growth on average last year, surpassing the mere 5.0% Median revenue also has continued to grow.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Already, some mask mandates are returning in some hospitals and nursing homes. Many nursing homes and hospitals have continued to require masks or reinstated lapsed requirements. There’s been a lot of debate about restrictions both in the nursing home setting and in the hospital setting. 24 and Sept.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

A lot of times you find that they don’t have an option to stay at home, because they can’t afford to bring in support systems or pay for private sitters, and they end up going to a nursing home. In 2022, roughly 60 home care, home health and hospice private equity deals took place across the United States and Canada.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Acute care is called acute care for a reason.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

December 2020. We really don’t want seniors living at home alone when we know it’s dangerous for them and it’s going to make them end up in the hospital and go to a nursing home. ” No one wants to go to a nursing home. “Let’s talk about ways we can keep you in your home.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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.” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. I’ve really looked into this because I partially feel responsible for masks because I wrote this article in March of 2020, and it was being reviewed. It was that day that I was totally deflated.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. In the meantime, there’s significant room to improve vaccine uptake among high-risk groups, particularly nursing home residents. Over the past four years, we’ve seen many changes—some positive, some negative. This is Eric Widera.

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